Every European software company that sells across borders rebuilds the same connectors country by country.
Chift, a Brussels startup founded in 2022, has banked €10.5M in Series A funding led by BlackFin Capital Partners, with existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre joining.
Chift sells financial connectivity infrastructure: a single API that lets software vendors link their products to the accounting, invoicing, payment and business systems their customers already run.
Founders Gauthier Henroz and brothers Henry and Matthieu Hertoghe will use the money to widen European coverage and deepen AI features that map inconsistent financial data into usable records.
BlackFin manages more than €4B and specializes in European fintech, a signal that the unglamorous integration layer is drawing specialist capital.
Why it matters: every European software company that sells across borders currently rebuilds the same connectors country by country, and whoever standardizes that plumbing collects a toll on each transaction it carries.
