On April 24-25, 2025, the EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta, bringing collectively round 2,400 founders, startup lovers, and traders for 2 days of insights, networking, and innovation.
In at present’s interconnected world, scaling globally is now not a luxurious—it’s a necessity. However how do startups navigate cross-border funds, regulatory complexities, and monetary infrastructure whereas sustaining fast development? In our panel “How International-First Startups Are Utilizing Fintech to Broaden at Pace”, trade leaders will share how fintech options are unlocking new markets, streamlining worldwide transactions, and enabling seamless scaling.
To interrupt all of it down, we’re bringing collectively high consultants who’re driving fintech-powered growth:
Ben leads SME and development operations at Airwallex, serving to companies scale globally with seamless monetary options. He specialises in cross-border funds, treasury, and spend administration, enabling startups to increase with out friction. With in depth expertise in go-to-market methods, he drives Airwallex’s adoption throughout key European markets. His work empowers startups to navigate worldwide growth with velocity and effectivity.
Fritz is the founder and CEO of Zenjob, Europe’s main AI-powered staffing platform remodeling how companies entry versatile workforce options. Since its founding in 2016, Zenjob has developed into a totally AI-driven market, utilizing machine studying to foretell demand and optimise job matching. The platform allows corporations to scale their workforce dynamically whereas making certain quick and environment friendly placements. Beneath Fritz’s management, Zenjob has expanded to 45 cities, serving over 4,500 corporations and filling 1000’s of shifts every day in actual time.
Tomasz is the CEO of AirHelp, the world’s largest legal-tech firm specialising in air passenger rights, journey safety, and insurance coverage. With over 20 years of management expertise, he has pushed main enterprise transformation initiatives throughout multinational organisations. Since becoming a member of AirHelp, Tomasz has led the corporate’s growth, optimising customer support, airline operations, and authorized processes to assist travellers declare compensation effectively. Beneath his management, AirHelp continues to innovate within the travel-tech area, making certain passengers obtain the help they deserve worldwide.
This panel will present sensible insights and real-world methods for startups aiming to scale globally with out monetary bottlenecks. Whether or not you’re a founder increasing into new markets or an entrepreneur navigating cross-border monetary complexities, this session is filled with key takeaways on fintech-driven scaling.
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Malta Enterprise is Malta’s financial improvement company, facilitating financial development, funding, and innovation, by providing a variety of help companies for native and overseas enterprises organising a productive presence in Malta. As a key participant in Malta’s financial panorama, it contributes to the nation’s prosperity by attracting investments, supporting companies, and driving innovation, thereby reinforcing Malta’s place as a beautiful vacation spot for entrepreneurs and traders alike. Malta Enterprise actively cultivates a vibrant startup ecosystem, taking part in a pivotal function in fostering a conducive surroundings for startups and providing tailor-made help and incentives to empower rising companies.
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Scytale helps startups get compliant and keep compliant with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, NIS 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and extra, with out breaking a sweat.
Airwallex is a number one world monetary platform for contemporary companies, providing trusted options to handle the whole lot from funds, treasury, and spend administration to embedded finance. With their proprietary infrastructure, Airwallex takes the friction out of worldwide funds and monetary operations, empowering companies of all sizes to unlock new alternatives and develop past borders. Proudly based in Melbourne, Airwallex helps over 100,000 companies globally and is trusted by manufacturers reminiscent of Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and lots of extra.
EUROCROWD is an unbiased community organisation aiming to help and promote crowdfunding instead funding mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises and progressive initiatives. EUROCROWD promotes and helps the event of Crowdfunding mechanisms as a viable funding supply to European entrepreneurs and funders.
The M. Demajo Group is a number one enterprise participant in Malta, with a profitable historical past spanning 115 years. The Group’s development and diversification have resulted in a large protection of enterprise sectors by means of a dedication to long-term outcomes. M. Demajo Group’s workforce is 500 sturdy and their varied actions have been developed by means of natural development, acquisitions, partnerships, and startups. Its sturdy monetary scenario and moral requirements, its enterprise repute, and its famend observe document as a enterprise associate are all key components in its continued growth.
The European Innovation Council (EIC) is a flagship initiative of the European Fee to show disruptive European science into groundbreaking business propositions and speed up the scale-up of “game-changing” improvements. It’s a key constructing bloc of a strengthened European ecosystem and the New European Innovation Agenda, filling the hole between R&D help, personal traders, and the market. With a funds of over €10 billion beneath the Horizon Europe Programme (2021-2027) it seeks to place Europe as a worldwide chief within the present wave of deep tech innovation.
