Chift, a European financial data connectivity platform, and a specialist integrator of accounting and business software for small and medium sized enterprises, has raised €10.5m in a Series A funding round.
The round was led by BlackFin Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on the European FinTech sector, with participation from existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre.
The company was founded on the premise that financial data across Europe remains locked within thousands of disconnected national systems, preventing software providers from scaling across borders and stopping AI tools from gaining a full view of a business’s finances.
Chift’s founders spent years manually linking individual software tools for small businesses before deciding a broader, unified approach was needed.
Chift points to two developments reshaping its market: the rollout of e-invoicing mandates across Europe, which will push every business onto digital finance systems by 2030, and the rise of AI agents in accounting, which depend on connected data to function.
The company estimates that around 30 million small and medium sized businesses across Europe and the UK, alongside a €174bn accounting services sector that remains largely manual, will need their financial systems linked together in the coming years.
Chift operates a single integration that links software providers to more than 120 financial systems spanning the continent, with new connections added on an ongoing basis. More than 150 software businesses currently build on the platform, giving over 50,000 companies across 13 countries access to connected financial data, among them Sage, Revolut, Qonto, Pennylane and Mollie.
The firm holds a leading position in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, entered Spain a year ago and is now expanding into the UK, the Nordics and Germany.
The new capital will fund development of an agentic layer that lets integrations configure themselves automatically and allows AI systems to act safely on financial data.
Chift also intends to extend its coverage into Spain, the UK, the Nordics, Germany and Italy over the coming years, while working to reach small businesses through the software providers, accountants and partners they already use. The company is recruiting for 15 positions across Europe during the second half of 2026.
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