Danish startup Plinto raises €2.9M to streamline financial controls

Copenhagen startup Plinto has picked up €2.9 million from People Ventures and Emblem to push its AI transaction-monitoring product further, sign more enterprise customers and take its first steps outside Denmark.

The company was founded in early 2025 by Jakob Nielsen, Nermina Suljevic and Sebastian Rehnby. Its pitch is simple enough: let software do the tedious work finance teams still do by hand. Plinto’s AI agents check whether payments line up with contracts, budgets and internal policies, then dig into any mismatch.

That means plugging into the systems companies already use — ERP software, documents, banking tools, Slack and Microsoft Teams — and using those feeds to spot problems early. If something looks off, the agents can chase people up, contact suppliers about wrong invoices, request credit notes or prepare corrections for approval. The company says this matters most in larger businesses, where high volumes push teams toward spot checks and month-end reviews, and mistakes can slip through until after money has moved.

Plinto says it already has paying customers and pilot projects in logistics, real estate, facility services and food production. In one area of a customer’s business, its agents have found about 430 discrepancies a month. In another case, the platform caught a duplicate invoice filed under a different supplier name before a second payment went out.

The new cash will go into product development, customer growth and expansion beyond Denmark. And that fits the broader bet here: not a shiny new finance stack, just a layer that sits on top of the one companies already have and tries to stop small errors becoming expensive ones.