A major year for milestones: Our 2025 in review

A lot can happen in a year.

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Upvest entered 2025 on a high, fresh off the announcement of our €100million Series C last December and having hit a milestone 20 million orders processed during 2024. Fast forward to December 2025 and we’ve continued to go from strength to strength; accelerating our growth, deepening our market footprint and significantly increasing the number of clients, orders and assets we support. In 2025, our infrastructure enabled over 100 million orders to be processed on behalf of our clients - a five-fold annual increase. 

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Our mission is to make investing as easy as spending money. Thanks to a record number of partnerships, we’ve been able to process more orders and reach more retail investors than ever before. As financial institutions look towards delivering cost-efficient and personalised investment experiences for their end users, Upvest continues to prove itself as the market leader across Europe. 

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This has been a year for building momentum. Most of all, it’s been a year for milestones. Here are some of the highlights from Upvest’s best year yet. 

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New partners in our ecosystem

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This year, we grew our client roster to nearly 30 partners across more than 20 markets. We proudly welcomed leading European financial institutions, including DKB, Santander’s Openbank, VisualVest, Salt Bank, Xaver, LIQID, IG, and others to our ecosystem. With these partnerships we demonstrated that the best institutions will choose the best technology - reinforcing our position as the go-to investment infrastructure provider in Europe. 

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Following our FCA approval last year, we also expanded internationally - launching our UK market presence. From our brand new office in London we have had the privilege of partnering with innovators including Webull UK and Zopa, providing the infrastructure they need to expand their service offerings. These partnerships mark a major step forward in helping the UK become a nation of investors. 

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We also expanded our fund capabilities through a collaboration with Clearstream, giving partners access to a broader array of mutual funds and strengthening our position as Europe’s leading investment infrastructure provider.

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New products for a new era of investing 

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The European investment market is undergoing a paradigm shift as instant, affordable, and fractional investing is now the norm. To enable our partners to stay ahead of the curve, we’ve been continuously expanding our product suite, including launching localised tax and pension wrappers. 

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In France we rolled out our PEA offering with N26, while in the UK we introduced ISAs, giving our clients the ability to launch local products in weeks, not years. Across a range of markets we also added new asset classes such as ELTIFs. With regulatory tailwinds driving investment adoption and Germany preparing for the most significant pension reform in decades, we’re also proud to support financial institutions as they gear up to deliver pension-ready solutions from day one.

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Crucially, we delivered reliability at scale, tested by weeks of market volatility and trading volume surges throughout 2025. Our investment infrastructure proved once again that it is built to perform under market pressure, enabling millions of Europeans to seamlessly trade and invest in thousands of instruments with zero downtime. And our reliability means our partners can build confidence and trust with their end users during market turbulence and peak market stress.

New Upvengers

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None of this would be possible without our people who are behind every milestone. This year we grew our team to over 280 Upvengers - representing over 70 nationalities. This also meant we held our biggest UpFest to date! 

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What’s ahead?

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This has been a major year of growth, setting the foundations for planetary scale at Upvest. As investment adoption across Europe continues to increase due to improved UX, lower costs, and regulatory tailwinds driving long-term wealth building, Upvest will continue to be the backbone of modern investing. In the next year, we will continue expanding our product suite, partner ecosystem, and market reach so that financial institutions of all sizes can build investment experiences their end users love. 

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We’re excited for what 2026 will bring as we continue our journey to make investing as easy as spending money.