Category: Neobank founders

Alexandre Prot is co-founder and CEO of Qonto, the Paris-based European business neobank.

Ali Niknam is founder and CEO of Bunq, the Amsterdam-based licensed Dutch neobank.

Anne Boden MBE founded Starling Bank and was the first woman to found a British bank.

Brian Armstrong is co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the publicly listed U.S. cryptocurrency exchange.

Cameron Conrad is founder and CEO of Torque, the self-custodial Money OS and wallet company.

Chris Britt is co-founder and CEO of Chime, one of the largest U.S. neobanks by customers.

Colin Walsh founded Varo and steered it to one of the first U.S. consumer fintech national bank charters.

Cristina Junqueira is co-founder of Nubank and a prominent Latin American fintech executive.

David Vélez is co-founder and CEO of Nubank (Nu Holdings), one of the world's largest digital banks by customers.

Elon Musk acquired Twitter, rebranded it to X, and launched X Money; he earlier founded X.com, which merged into PayPal.

Eric Glyman is co-founder and CEO of Ramp, the U.S. corporate spend and card platform.

George Bevis founded Tide, the UK business neobank for freelancers and SMEs.

Henrique Dubugras is co-founder of Brex, the U.S. corporate-card and business-banking fintech.

Immad Akhund is co-founder and CEO of Mercury, the U.S. startup-focused business neobank.

Jack Dorsey co-founded Block, Inc. (Cash App / Square) and Twitter (now X).

Jitendra Gupta is founder and CEO of Jupiter, the Indian consumer neobank.

John Collison is co-founder and president of Stripe.

Kristo Käärmann is co-founder and CEO of Wise (formerly TransferWise).

Lee Seung-gun founded Viva Republica / Toss, South Korea's leading fintech super-app and Toss Bank.

A catalogue of notable neobank and fintech founders covered as standalone people pages on neobank.wiki.

Marcelo Kalim is co-founder and CEO of C6 Bank, a licensed Brazilian digital bank.

Max Levchin is a co-founder of PayPal and a central figure in the PayPal Mafia narrative.

Mike Cagney co-founded SoFi and led it from student-loan refinancing into a diversified consumer fintech.

Nikolay Storonsky is co-founder and CEO of Revolut, the British-founded global financial super-app.

Patrick Collison is co-founder and CEO of Stripe, the global payments infrastructure company.

Pierpaolo Barbieri founded Ualá, the Latin American cards and accounts fintech.

Ryan King is co-founder and CTO of Chime, the U.S. partner-bank neobank.

Sameer Nigam is co-founder and CEO of PhonePe, one of India's largest UPI payments apps.

Sebastian Siemiatkowski is co-founder and CEO of Klarna, the Swedish BNPL and consumer finance company.

Stefan Möller is a co-founder of Klar, the Mexico-focused consumer neobank.

Stuart Sopp is co-founder and CEO of Current, the New York-based American neobank.

Tom Blomfield is co-founder and former CEO of Monzo, the UK neobank originally launched as Mondo.

Valentin Stalf is co-founder and CEO of N26, the Berlin-based licensed neobank.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma founded Paytm (One97 Communications), India's landmark digital payments brand.

Vlad Yatsenko is co-founder and CTO of Revolut.

Vladimir Tenev is co-founder and CEO of Robinhood, the commission-free brokerage app.