EU sovereignFintech & NeobanksHeadquarters: DE

Upvest: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Upvest is an investment infrastructure provider based in Berlin. According to press coverage, its API lets banks and fintechs offer brokerage, settlement and custody of securities without building that infrastructure themselves. Its regulated subsidiaries are Upvest Securities GmbH, supervised by BaFin, and Upvest Securities Ltd, regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Clients named in press coverage include Openbank and Raisin.

Upvest GmbH is registered in the Berlin commercial register. Press reports name Sapphire Ventures and Tencent Holdings among investors in a 2026 funding round. No majority owner is identified on the website or in the sources consulted, so no foreign parent company is named. The company states that it holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. The website does not state where customer data is hosted, so the hosting location and sub-processors should be confirmed before use.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Fintech & Neobanks
Type	Product
Website	upvest.co ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Upvest

The European alternatives to Upvest come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

144 European Fintech & Neobanks vendors are in the catalogue. View the whole category · Submit an alternative · View category on the map

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Upvest

Upvest is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Upvest scores best on data residency.

Upvest is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Upvest together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Upvest?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Upvest include 1822direkt, ActivoBank and Air Bank. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Upvest?

Our list of EU alternatives to Upvest is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Upvest GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Upvest is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Upvest an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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