# Announcing Upvest as Confluent's 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year

DevFeed: [Announcing Upvest as Confluent's 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/announcing-upvest-as-confluent-s-2026-emea-data-streaming-startup-of-the-year-11548.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.confluent.io/blog/announcing-upvest-as-confluents-2026-emea-data-streaming-startup-of-the-year/>)

Author: Tim Graczewski

Published: 2026-07-16T00:07:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Confluent: Data in motion](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/confluent-data-in-motion.md>)

Topics: [Streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/streaming.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [event driven](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/event-driven.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data-governance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-governance.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [compliance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compliance.md>), [confluent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent.md>), [confluent-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/confluent-cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-governance.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [emea](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emea.md>), [event-driven](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event-driven.md>), [fintech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fintech.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [revolut](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/revolut.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>), [startup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/startup.md>), [streaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/streaming.md>)

## AI overview

Confluent recognizes Berlin-based Upvest as its inaugural EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year. The article describes Upvest's real-time, event-driven fintech infrastructure, which supports embedded investments, client onboarding, data governance, disaster recovery, scalability, and regulatory resilience for major financial institutions.

## Source excerpt

Confluent for Startups provides an easy on-ramp to Confluent Cloud for early stage startups with great data streaming use cases.