The FinTech sector is growing rapidly, with new entrants, fresh funding rounds, tighter regulations, and complex buyer journeys. Its compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is expected to be 23.58% up until 2028, driven by the increasing adoption of digital payments and mobile banking services.
To keep pace, the sales, marketing, and compliance teams at FinTechs and financial services companies need more than raw data - they need actionable data.
That’s where a modern FinTech database solution comes in. Whether you need to identify investment-ready startups, enrich your CRM, or ensure compliance, the right data platform will give you a strategic edge.
This guide explores the top tools in the space and explains why Cognism is a leading choice for contact and company data.
FinTech databases provide many different types of insights. These are the most important:
Track investment flows, acquisition activity, and market trends.
Analysts, founders, and sales teams use these tools to prioritise well-funded companies.
With market intelligence, you can stay ahead of M&A, leadership changes, or regulatory red flags.
This is crucial for compliance teams, VCs, and high-stakes B2B dealmakers.
Understand user behaviours and build FinTech products with embedded finance.
These tools power back-end workflows for lending, budgeting, or investment platforms.
Find, contact, and convert buyers with verified, compliant outreach.
Revenue teams use these tools daily to generate pipeline, nurture accounts, and track market shifts.
Now let’s dive into some tools that are out in the wild. 👇
Cognism offers GDPR and CCPA-compliant data enriched with intent, funding signals, and human-verified mobile numbers.
With extensive EMEA coverage and integrations into CRMs and sales tools, it’s ideal for prospecting, CRM enrichment, and cross-regional GTM campaigns.
Financial service providers such as Mollie have found Cognism’s data to be 30% better than any competitor they were looking at. Their Managing Director, Dave Smallwood, said:
Top features for FinTechs:
Pricing:
Custom pricing based on seats and datasets required. Choose from our Grow or Elevate packages. Contact us for more pricing information or request a free FinTech data sample.
CB Insights tracks venture capital rounds, startup trajectories, market maps, and M&A.
Investors and strategy teams use it to spot trends and map emerging ecosystems.
Top features for FinTechs:
Pricing:
Enterprise pricing is available upon request. CB Insights offers custom packages based on user needs.
Plaid connects consumer financial accounts with FinTech apps for real-time access to balances, transactions, and identity verification.
Top features for FinTechs:
Pricing:
Tiered pricing model based on usage. Offers a free sandbox and usage-based enterprise plans.
Psst, financial service providers already use Cognism for accurate data. 👇
Refinitive, now LSEG Data & Analytics, is a powerhouse for public company data, regulatory filings, ESG metrics, and global risk data. It is widely used by corporate finance and compliance teams.
Top features for FinTechs:
Pricing:
Enterprise licensing is based on access level and vertical. Contact LSEG Data & Analytics for bespoke pricing.
Feedzai uses machine learning to monitor and prevent financial crime. Banks and payment platforms worldwide trust it.
Top features for FinTechs:
Pricing:
Custom pricing for enterprise deployments. Feedzai works with Tier 1 banks and FinTechs.
Mixpanel helps teams track how users interact with FinTech apps, from onboarding to feature usage and retention.
Top features for FinTechs:
Pricing:
A free plan is available. Contact Mixpanel to learn about its paid plans that scale with event volume and advanced features.
Each tool on this list has a different use case for financial service organisations; here’s who is best for what.
These tools serve different needs. Here’s a quick summary:
When comparing data platforms for the FinTech industry, ask:
Also consider internal collaboration: will marketing, sales, compliance, and operations teams get value from the platform? Tools like Cognism are built to serve cross-functional teams in the FinTech sector.
A FinTech database is a structured, enriched repository of information on companies operating in the financial technology space.
This can span:
These platforms help:
For example, a venture capital-backed payments company expanding into new European markets might need to:
With the right platform, all of this becomes possible.
Use funding alerts, job change signals, and technographics to prioritise outreach to FinTechs actively growing or investing in new solutions.
Cognism allows RevOps and sales teams to identify when a company hits a buying signal, like raising a Series A.
With Diamond Data®, SDRs avoid the guesswork. Verified mobile numbers lead to more conversations and less time wasted.
Mollie’s SDRs save 10–15 minutes per account and connect 2x more often.
Cognism plugs into platforms like Salesforce and HubSpot to automatically enrich contact and account records.
Clean data enables better segmentation, routing, and targeting, reducing ops overheads.
PeerNova used Cognism to penetrate both the US and EMEA markets.
Filters like job title, technographics, and intent signals allowed for region-specific outreach at scale.
Cognism is checked against 13 global Do Not Call lists and is GDPR/CCPA-compliant.
For compliance-led roles in finance, Cognism’s data ensures outreach is ethical and legally sound.
For banks and large financial service companies, mapping the full buying committee across multiple countries or departments is often challenging.
Cognism helps visualise organisational structure and suggests verified contacts across the decision chain.
If you’re a FinTech building partner ecosystems (e.g., with ISVs or consultancies), Cognism makes segmenting partners by vertical, tech stack, and headcount easy.
This allows for targeted co-marketing and co-selling motions.
Cognism supports vertical segmentation and ABM plays.
Want to target UK-based Series B FinTechs using Stripe? It’s doable - with clean, ready-to-contact records and integration into your sequencing tools.
Want to see how context-rich, compliant data can power your next FinTech campaign? Cognism’s got what you need.
Get your free FinTech data sample and see why financial brands like Mollie, PeerNova and Lockton trust Cognism.