Chift secures €10.5m in Series A funding round as it eyes European expansion

European financial connectivity platform Chift has raised €10.5 million in a Series A funding round led by BlackFin Capital Partners.

Existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre also participated in the fundraising.

Chift is addressing what it has called “the defining problem of European SMB finance”, which is interoperability, with businesses’ financial data sitting in a different system in every European country.

Chift intends to use the funding to scale across Spain, the UK, the Nordics, Germany and Italy, and to build an agentic layer, “so that any connection sets itself up in minutes and any agent can act on financial data safely”.

As part of its growth plans, Chift revealed it is hiring for 15 roles across Europe in the second half of 2026.

Gauthier Henroz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Chift, said: “One integration to Chift connects a software company to more than 120 financial systems across Europe, and that catalogue expands every week.

“Connecting Europe is not just a technical problem to solve: for the companies building on Chift, every integration opens a new go to market, a direct line into a new country’s ecosystem, new partnership opportunities, without rebuilding anything to get there.”

He added: “Today, more than 150 software companies build on Chift to connect over 50,000 businesses across 13 countries, including Europe’s leading tech companies: Sage, Revolut, Qonto, Pennylane and Mollie.

“We are the clear leader in our first markets, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. We launched Spain a year ago, and we are already growing in the UK, the Nordics and Germany.”

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