Chift raises €10.5M Series A to scale financial connectivity across Europe

Brussels-based Chift has closed a €10.5 million Series A to push its financial connectivity platform deeper into Europe and build out its AI work. BlackFin Capital Partners led the round, with Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre also in the mix.

The company was founded in 2022 by Gauthier Henroz, Henry Hertoghe and Matthieu Hertoghe. Its pitch is straightforward enough: software companies shouldn't have to stitch together a fresh integration for every accounting tool, invoicing platform, point-of-sale system, e-commerce service, payment provider or property management setup they touch.

Chift's answer is a unified API. Build once, connect once, and the software can reach more than 120 financial systems across six categories. That matters because financial operations are getting more fragmented inside businesses, even as the underlying tools keep multiplying.

The timing helps its case. Chift points to two forces pulling in the same direction: AI-based financial products need access to data held across existing business systems, and e-invoicing requirements are moving more of the workflow onto digital rails. In Europe, where systems are split across 27 countries, that mess is part of the product.

The new capital will go toward entering additional European markets and expanding Chift's AI capabilities. The company also wants integrations that can configure themselves with less manual setup, which is a neat way of saying the old way of wiring finance software together is becoming a little too expensive to keep pretending is normal.