FinTech Magazine Top100 Companies 2023 | Page 24

TOP 100 COMPANIES

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Temenos

Founded in 1993
CEO: Andreas Andreades
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Qonto

Founded in 2016
CEO: Alexandre Prot
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Parisian fintech Qonto is a neobank with services specialises for freelancers and SMEs. Launched in 2017, Qonto has since expanded its offering in Spain, Germany and Italy, where it has operated since 2019. Raising US $ 115m in January 2020, Qonto soon went on to pass the 100,000 customer mark later that year. Generating a significant US $ 530.5m in January 2022, Qonto became the most valued Unicorn in France at a valuation of US $ 4.8bn. The fintech made its first acquisition in 2022 too, buying its German competitor Penta. After its acquisition, Qonto’ s customer base grew to 300,000, with almost 1,0000 employees on the books.
Banking platform Temenos is among the world’ s largest. Serving a range of players in the industry, from different-sized banks to non-banks and fintechs, Temenos has a mission to be Everyone’ s Banking Platform. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the fintech is used by 41 of the world’ s top 50 banks worldwide. Founded in 1993, Temenos went public in 2001, acquiring a mainframe core banking application aimed at high-end banks – later known as Temenos Corebanking. More recently, in 2021, the company launched its new collaborative marketplace, Temenos Exchange. The provider has completed 18 acquisitions in total, most notably mobile application development platform provider Kony, which it acquired for US $ 559m in 2019.
Software Development
Switzerland
Financial Services
France
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