London-based digital-banking giant and Europe's most valuable startup. After a share sale in September 2024 its valuation hit $75bn. Employees are expected to arrive with ideas, bid for funding and run mini-businesses inside the firm. Former staff have founded more than 230 startups, three times as many as alumni of fintech firms in Berlin or Paris.
Chief executive Nik Storonsky moved to Dubai. He has backed Spiko, a French fintech startup, and Biorce, a Spanish medical-technology firm. Alan Chang, dubbed Revolut's "most aggressive millionaire", left to found Fuse Energy, a renewables firm.
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