Brussels-based Chift has closed a Chift Series A funding round of €10.5 million, led by BlackFin Capital Partners, as the company sets its sights on scaling across Spain, the UK, the Nordics, Germany and Italy. Existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre also participated.
The company describes its core problem as “the defining problem of European SMB finance”: financial data in Europe sits in a different system in virtually every country, making it difficult for software businesses to operate across borders without rebuilding integrations from scratch. Chift’s proposition is a single connection that, it claims, links a software company to more than 120 financial systems across Europe.
What the Chift Series A funding is meant to do
Chift says the capital will go towards geographic expansion and towards building what it calls an “agentic layer,” so that any connection can set itself up in minutes and any agent can act on financial data. The company has not published a breakdown of how the €10.5 million is allocated between those two priorities.
As part of the growth plans, Chift says it is hiring for 15 roles across Europe in the second half of 2026. According to EU-Startups, the team currently stands at 35 people, which gives some sense of the scale of expansion that 15 new hires would represent.
Gauthier Henroz, co-founder and chief executive officer of Chift, framed the product in commercial as well as technical terms: “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.”
Who built Chift, and where it stands today
Chift was founded in 2022 by Henroz alongside Henry Hertoghe and Matthieu Hertoghe, according to TheSaasNews. The company says it has established what it describes as market leadership in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, and launched in Spain a year ago.
Henroz said more than 150 software companies now build on Chift to connect over 50,000 businesses across 13 countries. He named Sage, Revolut, Qonto, Pennylane and Mollie among what he called “Europe’s leading tech companies” using the platform. Those figures come from Chift itself and have not been independently verified.
The network logic Chift is pursuing is worth examining. If the integration count and the customer base are accurate, the platform would represent a meaningful shortcut for software vendors looking to enter new European markets without the overhead of country-by-country compliance and data connections. The company’s claim to be “the clear leader” in its first three markets is asserted, not evidenced by third-party data, and the competitive landscape in European financial connectivity is not addressed in Chift’s own materials.
What the round does confirm is that BlackFin Capital Partners and the participating investors considered the model fundable at Series A scale. Whether the expansion into five additional markets simultaneously is an aggressive-but-achievable plan or an overextension is a question the next 12 to 18 months will answer in trading figures rather than press releases. For now, Chift has the capital and, it says, the hiring pipeline to begin finding out. The 15 open roles across Europe in the second half of 2026 are the first concrete test of that ambition.
