About Upvest.

We’re Upvest, and we enable businesses to build great investment experiences for their end users – seamless, secure and across international borders. Our single Investment API and digital infrastructure streamline the whole process, letting our customers focus on their core business.

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“At Upvest we have the mission to make investing as easy as spending money. Today, investing is still a privilege of a few. We make it more accessible. Our Investment API empowers any business to offer amazing investment experiences. Hundreds of millions of people can now create wealth and vote with their money for a better future. This is big and fun, join us!”

Martin Kassing - Founder and CEO

Our Team.

Martin Kassing
Martin Kassing
CEO Upvest
Martin Kassing
CEO Upvest

Martin Kassing is the Founder and Managing Director of Upvest. He is a tech entrepreneur with a strong background and experience in finance. Before founding Upvest in 2017, he worked in private equity. Martin stepped out of this path to found his first Fintech, acquired later by Klarna. Having over 15 years of experience in Fintech and capital markets, he is now leading and developing Upvest strategy and vision.

Markus Maier
Markus Maier
COO
Markus Maier
COO

Seasoned operations lead with more than 20 years of experience in developing organisations through crafting vision and strategy. Prior to becoming COO at Upvest, Markus was leading global operations teams and driving transformation programs with focus on operational excellence for Deutsche Bank and UBS.

Tobias Auferoth
Tobias Auferoth
CFO
Tobias Auferoth
CFO

Tobias Auferoth is Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at Upvest. He has 7 years of Fintech building experience in Berlin, among others co-founding the first FinLeap venture Savedo. Before moving into Fintech, he spent 7 years in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and UBS in Frankfurt and London.

Dr. Til Rochow
Dr. Til Rochow
CPO
Dr. Til Rochow
CPO

Dr. Til Rochow is the Chief Product Office at Upvest. Previously he built and led the investment and pension products business at Raisin. He has more than 15 years experience in financial services having started his career at McKinsey. Til is passionate about improving retail investor behaviour, which was also the focus of his Ph.D.

Juha Ristolainen
Juha Ristolainen
CTO
Juha Ristolainen
CTO

Juha Ristolainen is a technology leader with more than two decades of experience in building digital services and products in places like Wise. He is passionate about delivering impact on the world by building empowered teams and delivering quality software. He has extensive expertise in modern event-driven distributed systems, decentralised and blockchain technologies as well as scaling data-driven organisations rapidly.

Our Investors.

Bessemer
ABN AMRO
Notion
HV Capital
Earlybird
Partech
Speedinvest

Our values guide all that we do.

Upvest team members
Upvest office team members photo
01.
Learn and grow.

We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. We value progression over perfection.

02.
Team first.

We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together. We nurture teams, not egos.

03.
Own the outcome.

Whether we win or lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. There are many ways to reach the outcome.

04.
Tell the story.

We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. We value transparency over complexity.

“As one of the first employees of Upvest, I’ve accompanied the journey and the possibilities on the way. What I like most about being at this company is the great agility we had in the past to find our way of transforming the bigger picture into something real. We’re still in the process of making our vision a reality and it’s super exciting.”

Anne Taraschewski - Accounting Lead

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Dorian Selimovic - Job title, BNP Paribas

“Upvest's vision and product have the potential to revolutionise the entire industry, and create a whole new generation of investors. I have always wondered why investing had to be so complicated, slow and expensive. For Upvest, it just has to be as simple as spending money.”

Dorian Selimovic
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Product Engineer

“I like the day-to-day balances, the freedom of a greenfield model, but with the initial structures and processes of a far more mature organisation. I am still staggered by an Upvest culture which seems completely ego-free and values deep collaboration based on mutual trust.”

Durk Visser
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Senior Product Manager

“As one of the first employees, I’ve accompanied the journey and the possibilities on the way. What I like most is the great agility we had in the past to find our way of transforming the bigger picture into something real. We’re still in the process of making our vision a reality and it’s super exciting.”

Anne Taraschewski
 - 
Accounting Lead