13.00 Pre-seed14.00 Seed15.00 Series A-B
Mastercard Lighthouse
Investor
Demo day.
April 22nd
13-17.00 CET (online)
Be the first to hear the big announcements from the Mastercard Lighthouse Spring 2026 startups at our Investor Demo Day. Join us for an exciting afternoon as innovative companies pitch their solutions across the stages Pre-seed, Seed and Series A-B. Don’t miss the chance to get early access to fresh announcements, bold ideas, and new opportunities.
Read more about the startups
Fintech
Building the AI-agent orchestration platform to enable human-centric financial services in a digital world.
Setting new standards in how banks can optimize their core banking business and significantly increase profitability.
Helps financial services teams move AI from pilots to production through policy-aligned proof.
Helps people take control of their financial future through intuitive, self-service financial guidance.
Delivers an evidence-backed, pre-transaction fraud merchant signals list aggregated from local user exposure.
Helps banks offer merchant-funded cashback without building merchant relationships or rewards infrastructure.
Lets companies send digital gift cards that employees can use anywhere Mastercard is accepted via mobile wallets.
Helps the insurance industry, SME companies and financial institutions detect and prevent fraud before it happens.
Enables effortless dine-in payments for restaurants—scan, split, and pay in seconds.
Provides insurance for second-hand goods on marketplaces, making it easier and safer for individuals to shop.
Helps to unlock millions of euros in revenue from existing clients and attracting fresh customers for banks.
Provides AI pen-testing and darkweb monitoring that helps financial institutions stay ahead of threats and maintain PCI DSS, etc.
A single Control Panel for all boring back-office operations.
A SaaS solution to connect existing IT systems to the EU Digital Identity Wallet ecosystem.
Transforming any mobile application into a multi-method in-store payment terminal.
Impact Tech
Norwegian SpennX has built the next-generation cross-border payments infrastructure that leverages digital wallets and stablecoin settlement to make remittances faster, cheaper, and more transparent for emerging markets.
Founded in Sweden, Manje is building compliant cross-border health payment infrastructure enabling families to pay hospitals, pharmacies and insurers, in a reliable and cost-effective way.
Founded in Sweden, Octany consolidates Nordic nonprofit fundraising into one platform to acquire, manage and engage donors.
CorPower Ocean is the industry leader in wave energy, on a mission to power the planet with clean electricity from ocean waves.
Based in Estonia, Soldera is unifying all the renewable energy registries into a single platform, helping 500+ corporations procure, track and retire energy certificates across 4,000+ utility power plants, cutting compliance costs by 40%.
Sweden-based Plussa is an AI mental health startup on a mission to improve wellbeing for over one billion working parents globally with an evidence-based app built to remove the biggest barriers to mental health support.
Agenda
Central European time CEST.
