Sifted has published the third edition of its France & Benelux 100, the annual ranking of the fastest-growing startups headquartered across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Roundtable placed fourth. The ranking is built entirely on verified revenue, specifically a two-year compound annual growth rate that each company has to document and have signed off, and ours came in above 500%.
What makes this particular list worth paying attention to is how it is put together. Sifted does not rank companies on how much they have raised, how many people they employ, or how often they appear in the press. Companies submit signed financial documentation, and the list is ordered purely on revenue growth over the period. It is one of the few European startup rankings built that way, which is a large part of why a strong placement on it means something to us.
The top-ranked fintech on the list
Of the hundred companies in the ranking, Roundtable is the highest-placed fintech. The three companies above us build cybersecurity software, AI training, and factory robotics, so within financial services we finished ahead of every other company on the list, including names as established as Qonto, Alan, and Doctolib. For a category as infrastructure-heavy and as tightly regulated as private markets, that is the part of the result we are most proud of.
It is also a useful signal about where European fintech is heading. The companies climbing these lists are no longer only neobanks and consumer payment apps. Increasingly they are infrastructure businesses, the rails that other companies build on top of. Private markets were one of the last corners of finance to receive that treatment, and that corner is exactly where Roundtable works.
What sits behind the number
A growth rate is an output, and the more interesting question is what produces it. In our case, the same stretch of months that earned this ranking also took the platform past €1B in commitments. The first €500M took three years; the next €500M took five months. That acceleration is what a 500% growth rate looks like from the inside, and it is made of ordinary work repeated at scale: a fund manager launching a EuVECA fund in days instead of months, a syndicate lead moving from a handful of angels to a structured circle, a founder keeping a single clean cap table through an entire round. Multiply that across 30,000 investors and more than a thousand deals, and the curve compounds.
Where that places Roundtable today:
- €1B+ in commitments
- 600+ investment communities
- 30,000+ investors across 100+ nationalities
- 1,000+ deals onboarded
- 15+ funds onboarded
From the European top 15 to the regional top 5
For context, last year Roundtable ranked #14 in the Sifted 250, the Europe-wide edition. This year's list is a different, regional ranking, so it would be misleading to present fourteen-to-four as a straight climb, and we won't. What is fair to say is that the direction has held: from the European top fifteen to the regional top five inside a year, while the underlying growth rate stayed above 500% across two consecutive editions.
We treat rankings as a signal rather than a scoreboard, and the signal here is consistency. Two years of triple-digit growth, verified against signed financials, in a market most people still describe as early.
The work that does not make the headline
A result like this is the sum of a great deal of quiet, repeated work that never shows up in a leaderboard: the structuring, the compliance, and the back-office operations that sit underneath every deal. All of it eventually surfaces in a single growth number. And none of it would exist without the people who trust us with their capital, the founders who kept their cap tables clean, the syndicate leads who scaled their circles, the fund managers who launched without a lost year of legal setup, and the investors who backed companies they believe in. This ranking is theirs as much as ours.
What comes next
Europe's private markets are still early. Only around 2% of the continent's financial wealth sits in private assets today, and most deals still run on PDFs and patience. We are building toward the next version of Roundtable, a more agentic investment experience in which the operational weight of private market investing runs in the background and the people doing the investing get their time back. The same shift that moved the back office from spreadsheets to software is now moving it from software to agents, and we intend to keep setting the pace.
If you want to see what the top-ranked fintech in France & Benelux can do for your next SPV or fund, book a call with our team. The story behind the €1B milestone is worth reading alongside this one, and you can find it here.
