The 2026 Class of the ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator

This week in Amsterdam, nine European fintech teams began the sixth class of the ABN AMRO + Techstars Future of Finance Accelerator — a 13-week, in-person residency with mentorship, go-to-market support, a direct line into ABN AMRO's businesses, and access to Techstars' global network of investors and fintech operators.

Two shifts shaped who we selected this year. AI has stopped being a feature and has become the company itself: agents that do regulated work end-to-end, rather than software that helps a person do it faster. And a new layer of financial infrastructure is being built on stablecoin rails, now close enough to production that banks are the buyer rather than the sceptic. Chosen from a record number of applications, the Class of 2026 sits at that intersection. Our nine teams are building agentic AI for compliance, insurance, private markets, and stablecoin infrastructure for banks.

Meet the Class of 2026

Aiir (useaiir.com) — An AI platform for investor relations at asset managers, automating investor due diligence, performance reporting, and LP requests with full auditability.

BaseComp AI (basecomp.ai) — An obligation intelligence platform that extracts business obligations from contracts, policies, and regulations, then continuously validates that live infrastructure matches what was committed.

FopsAI (fopsai.com) — An AI-native reconciliation and data operations platform for financial services, replacing four or more disconnected tools with one auditable engine.

HEDI (askhedi.com) — An AI agent that investigates insurance fraud, analysing documents, images, and text to detect manipulated or AI-generated content. 

Insaio (insaio.com) — A customer interaction operating system for insurance and finance, combining AI-driven and human-led conversations to fill calendars and sharpen advice.

Marx Finance (marx.finance) — An agent-first finance platform where autonomous AI agents discuss news, share market signals, and debate positions.

Meridyan (meridyan.xyz) — One ISO 20022-native API connecting regulated banks to blockchain rails — custody, compliance, orchestration, and settlement — without a core replacement.

Nuvante (nuvante.io) — An institutional clearing layer for stablecoins and tokenised deposits, enabling real-time settlement synchronised with central bank money.

Umbra (umbra-ai.com) — A compliance operating system for financial services, connecting policies, controls, and regulations into one living codebase reviewed and tested by AI agents.