What is Brussels based fintech Chift, who founded it, how much Series A funding did it raise and from which investors, what financial connectivity problem does its unified API solve for software companies, which business systems and how many financial platforms across how many ca

Chift is a Brussels-based financial-connectivity fintech: it provides software companies and AI products with one API through which they can read, write and act on customers’ financial data across otherwise fragmented business tools. 4 It was founded by Gauthier Henroz, Henry Hertoghe and Matthieu Hertoghe.

Funding

• Chift raised a €10.5 million Series A (reported as about $12.2 million), led by BlackFin Capital Partners. 8
• Existing investors participating were Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre. 8

The problem it solves

• European software firms typically must build and maintain separate integrations for each customer’s local accounting, billing, payment or commerce system. Chift standardizes those different APIs into a single connection, reducing repeated integration engineering and enabling data to move between products. 4
• Its API covers accounting, invoicing, point-of-sale, e-commerce, payments, property-management systems (PMS), and banking. 4
• Chift says it now offers more than 150 connectors across six principal categories—accounting, invoicing/CRM, POS, e-commerce, payments and PMS. Its documentation also includes banking connectivity, so category descriptions vary by product view. 4

Why interoperability is becoming more urgent

• AI features and agents need reliable, permissioned, structured operational and financial data to answer questions or take actions; isolated financial systems limit that capability. Chift’s API is intended to provide that shared data-and-action layer. 4
• Mandatory e-invoicing and related reporting requirements spreading across European markets require systems to produce, retrieve, exchange and reconcile invoice data reliably. A common integration layer reduces the number of country- and vendor-specific connections software companies must build. Chift’s invoicing API supports retrieving and creating invoices, alongside related tax, product and payment data. 2

Planned use of proceeds

• Chift intends to expand its connectivity platform and supported systems into additional European markets, where accounting and financial-software ecosystems remain highly localized. 8
• It also plans to advance AI-oriented integrations: making connectors more automated and self-configuring, so AI-enabled products can more readily discover, map and use customers’ financial systems rather than relying on extensive manual integration setup. 8