TAMAZ GEORGADZE / RAISIN CO-FOUNDER
How Tamaz Georgadze’s Berlin fintech helped customers earn €5 billion.
He came to Germany from Georgia. In Berlin, he co-founded a platform that helps people access savings products across borders.
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A savings account at your local bank can feel like the obvious option. Tamaz Georgadze helped build a Berlin business around making other options easier to reach.
In March 2026, Raisin reported more than €5 billion in cumulative returns for its customers. Its platform held over €80 billion in assets from more than one million people. These company-reported global figures describe customer money and returns, rather than company revenue.
From Georgia to Germany.
Georgadze grew up in Georgia and came to Germany in 1995 on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship. He studied in Giessen and later worked at McKinsey, including in Berlin.
In 2012, he co-founded Raisin with Frank Freund and Michael Stephan. Its savings platform launched in 2013.
A problem people were already trying to solve.
In an August 2026 interview with FIBE Berlin, Georgadze described people travelling to foreign banks to open accounts for higher interest rates. Different national banking systems made this difficult to organise.
Raisin built a platform through which customers could access savings products from different banks using one account. The banks gained another way to attract deposits, while customers could compare a wider range of options.
Berlin is still central to the business.
In the same interview, Georgadze said more than half of Raisin’s 800-plus employees were based in Berlin. He pointed to the city’s international talent and creativity as reasons for building there.
Raisin’s work now extends across borders. Its Italian launch in March 2026 brought the platform to an eleventh market. The company connects customers with banks in the EU, the UK and the United States.
What the €5 billion measures.
The headline refers to accumulated customer returns reported by Raisin, across its markets. It is not an annual figure, an estimate of German GDP or a calculation of additional returns compared with every possible alternative.
It gives a concrete measure of the financial activity flowing through a company built in Berlin by Georgadze, his fellow founders and their team.
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- Raisin, 4 March 2026: financial figures and Italian launch.
- FIBE Berlin, 10 August 2026: first-person founder interview and Berlin team.
- EU-Startups, 2 February 2017: Georgian background and founder interview.
- McKinsey, 10 July 2020: co-founders, founding year and Berlin headquarters.
- ChessBase, 23 November 2023: scholarship and move to Germany.
- ENX_0696, MoneyConf: Tamaz Georgadze, Dublin, 13 June 2018. Photo by Eóin Noonan / MoneyConf via Sportsfile.
- Creative Commons Attribution 2.0: photograph reuse terms.
Researched 2 October 2026. Financial totals are company-reported global figures. Photograph unchanged and uncropped. This editorial profile does not imply endorsement by the featured person or company.
