List of fintech founders
This page lists founders of neobanks, payments companies and adjacent fintech platforms who have dedicated articles on neobank.wiki—parallel to the List of fintech journalists. Company products and licences remain on each company page; founder pages cover career and company association.1
Consumer neobanks
- Chris Britt / Ryan King — Chime
- Nikolay Storonsky / Vlad Yatsenko — Revolut
- Tom Blomfield — Monzo
- Anne Boden — Starling Bank
- David Vélez / Cristina Junqueira — Nubank
- Valentin Stalf — N26
- Colin Walsh — Varo
- Stuart Sopp — Current
- Mike Cagney — SoFi
- Ali Niknam — Bunq
- Marcelo Kalim — C6 Bank
- Jitendra Gupta — Jupiter
- Stefan Möller — Klar
- Lee Seung-gun — Toss
- Pierpaolo Barbieri — Ualá
Business banking & payments
- Immad Akhund — Mercury
- George Bevis — Tide
- Alexandre Prot — Qonto
- Henrique Dubugras — Brex
- Eric Glyman — Ramp
- Patrick Collison / John Collison — Stripe
- Kristo Käärmann — Wise
- Sameer Nigam — PhonePe
- Vijay Shekhar Sharma — Paytm
- Jack Dorsey — Cash App / Block
- Max Levchin — PayPal
- Sebastian Siemiatkowski — Klarna
Brokerage, crypto & self-custody
- Elon Musk — acquired Twitter → X; launched X Money; earlier X.com / PayPal
- Jack Dorsey — Cash App / Block; Twitter co-founder
- Vladimir Tenev — Robinhood
- Brian Armstrong — Coinbase
- Cameron Conrad — Torque
References
- Founder pages are seeded from company Founders sections and public career facts; coverage prioritises primary founders of major wiki entries.
Frequently asked questions
- Which fintech founders does neobank.wiki cover?
- Standalone founder pages include leaders such as Anne Boden (Starling), Nikolay Storonsky (Revolut), Tom Blomfield (Monzo), David Vélez and Cristina Junqueira (Nubank), Chris Britt and Ryan King (Chime), Patrick and John Collison (Stripe), Immad Akhund (Mercury), and others listed on List of fintech founders.
See also
- Accrue - Accrue is a Ghana- and Nigeria-rooted fintech that moves money across Africa and the US using a stablecoin agent network.
- Airwallex - Airwallex is an Australian-founded business fintech for global accounts, payments and spend management.
- Alex Johnson - Alex Johnson is the founder of Fintech Takes, a widely read fintech newsletter and podcast; he is active on X as @AlexH_Johnson.
- Alexandre Prot - Alexandre Prot is co-founder and CEO of Qonto, the Paris-based European business neobank.
- Ali Niknam - Ali Niknam is founder and CEO of Bunq, the Amsterdam-based licensed Dutch neobank.