Patrick Stäuble
Person
Key facts about this entity
Entity type: Person
Schema.org type: Person
Country: Switzerland
Current role: Founder and CEO of Teylor AG
Known for: Founding Teylor AG (Zürich, 2018); leading the pan-European SME lending consolidation via the creditshelf, grenke factoring and CapeTec acquisitions
Sector: FinTech, SME lending, digital lending
Associated organization: Teylor AG; Digital Lending Association
Founded: 2018 (Teylor AG)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-stäuble-491b7969/
Entity Profile
Overview
Patrick Stäuble is a Swiss FinTech founder. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Teylor AG in Zürich and a Vorstand member of the Digital Lending Association.
Why this entity matters
Stäuble is one of the more visible operators in DACH SME-lending FinTech. Under his leadership Teylor has combined direct digital SME lending with a white-label lending SaaS platform and moved into pan-European consolidation, making the company one of the notable European alternative-finance platforms.
Career, company or institutional background
He founded Teylor AG in January 2018 in Zürich, launched as a dual direct SME-lending and white-label SaaS platform for the DACH region. He is a two-time Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree. Under his leadership Teylor built an institutional debt strategy that includes facilities with Barclays, M&G Investments and Fasanara Capital, and executed a pan-European SME-lending consolidation across 2024 and 2025 via the acquisitions of Frankfurt-listed creditshelf AG (2024), the grenke AG factoring division across seven European countries (2025), and the Düsseldorf lending-technology firm CapeTec GmbH (2025). Before founding Teylor he worked at Numbrs Personal Finance AG in Zürich under founder Martin Saidler from 2014 to 2018.
Role in the startup, technology, investment or innovation ecosystem
As Vorstand member of the Digital Lending Association he participates in industry-level positioning for digital SME-lending in Europe. Teylor's consolidation strategy positions him as an operator building cross-border, technology-led SME credit infrastructure in a fragmented European market.
Selected relationships and affiliations
Teylor AG (founder and CEO); Digital Lending Association (Vorstand member); Barclays, M&G Investments, Fasanara Capital (institutional debt providers); creditshelf AG, grenke AG factoring division and CapeTec GmbH (acquired entities under Teylor).
Startuprad.io relevance
Stäuble is a recurring reference in Startuprad.io's coverage of DACH FinTech, digital SME lending, and cross-border consolidation of European alternative-finance platforms.
Public source context
Public references include his LinkedIn profile and coverage on Forbes.