Ex-Mollie and Booking.com exec’s Neno raises €6.6M to build an AI accountant

Amsterdam fintech Neno has raised €6.6 million in seed funding, with AlleyCorp leading the round. The company says the money will go into Neno Labs, hiring for accounting and go-to-market, and a push into more European markets in 2027.

That pitch comes from founder Nick Knuppe, who spent time at Booking.com and Mollie before starting Neno in 2025. He says he built the company after running into clumsy workflows at a previous job. Neno’s answer is a general ledger that pulls in bank data, corporate cards, bills and receivables, then reconciles the lot while a human accountant checks the result.

The company is betting that this mix can stretch accounting labor much further. Neno says one accountant can cover up to 200 small business clients, versus about 30 in the usual setup. It also claims customers save about eight hours of admin a month, cut annual accounting fees by 20%, and make reconciliation and VAT preparation five times faster.

Since launching in the Netherlands at the start of 2026, Neno says it has picked up almost 200 customers, including SOUS, FeedbackFruits, The Cirqle, Airweave and Rally. Those clients span hospitality, HR, legal and e-commerce. The team itself includes people from Adyen, Plaid, Deloitte, KPMG and BDO, and the cap table also includes Motive Partners, Firstminute Capital and angels from Hugging Face, Juni, Deel, Miro, Coinbase, PayPal and Navro.

Neno is entering a crowded field. Paris-based Pennylane has already raised $205 million at a $4.25 billion valuation and is moving into Germany with AI tools for accountants, while Digits and Vic.ai also sell AI-native bookkeeping software in the US. Xero and Intuit’s QuickBooks still dominate. Neno is taking a more awkward route than most of them: software plus in-house accounting, tax and payroll, not just software.