Danish accounting controls do not usually produce fast-growing software companies. Plinto thinks agents can, and investors have put €2.9M behind the idea at pre-seed stage.
The Copenhagen startup’s agents connect to accounting software, banking systems, contracts and workplace tools, then check whether each transaction actually matches what was agreed. Where it does not, an agent investigates and chases the right person for an answer.
People Ventures and Emblem led the round, with business angels participating. Co-founder Jakob Nielsen argues that companies already have systems recording every transaction, but verifying those transactions against rules and agreements remains manual work that piles up at month end.
A team that has shipped this before
The founding group is the most persuasive part of the pitch. Nielsen, Nermina Suljevic and Sebastian Rehnby all came from Peakon, the Copenhagen employee-feedback company Workday bought for roughly $700M in 2021. Chief technology officer Andreas Garnæs is also a Peakon alum.
The route to the product was indirect. Nielsen studied economics, heard from former classmates about the pain of closing the books, and the team’s first attempt was a business intelligence dashboard. Feedback from a chief financial officer and the arrival of cheaper AI models in late 2024 pushed them toward automating the checks themselves.
Plinto launched at the start of 2025, and Nielsen spent much of the first year on site with a pilot customer’s finance team. The company resists being labelled accounts payable software, positioning itself as background infrastructure with agents routing questions to the right colleague so staff never open another system.
That framing sets up the hard part. Continuous checking across a dozen integrations is only as good as its tolerance for messy data, and finance teams will judge false positives long before they judge coverage.
