# Chift Raises €10.5M Series A Led by BlackFin for EU Financial Data Plumbing By Ray Termsheet · 2026-09-14 · Deals & Funding · https://datacommenter.com/chift-raises-e10-5m-series-a-led-by-blackfin-for-eu-financial-data-plumbing/ About the author: Follows the money in the data economy: venture rounds, M&A, and strategic stakes across data vendors and infrastructure. > Brussels-based Chift raised a €10.5 million Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners, reported September 14, 2026, to scale its API connecting software to 120+ European financial systems and to… Original reporting: [Finextra](https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48390/chift-raises-105m-to-build-financial-connectivity-layer-for-the-ai-era?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed) _AI-assisted commentary, editorially reviewed. Quoted excerpts belong to the original outlet._ What’s solid here: Finextra, EU-Startups, and Tech.eu all independently confirm the €10.5 million Series A, led by BlackFin Capital Partners with existing backers Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund, and Wallonie Entreprendre returning. The founding story — Gauthier Henroz, Henry Hertoghe, and Matthieu Hertoghe launching in Brussels in 2022 — and the core product, a unified API into more than 120 accounting, invoicing, payments, and point-of-sale systems, also check out across all three reports. That’s a real, verifiable financial connectivity business with a plausible AI hook: an MCP server that lets agents pull and push financial data without developers managing credentials system by system. What’s not independently verified: the claim of tenfold revenue growth since a €2.3 million 2024 seed, the count of 35 employees, and the figures of 150-plus software customers reaching 50,000 SMEs across ten-plus countries. Those all trace back to Chift’s own account, relayed by EU-Startups without third-party confirmation — as does the marquee client list of Revolut, Qonto, Pennylane, and Mollie, which reads more like a logo slide than a sourced customer roster. > A €10.5 million round is easy to confirm; a tenfold revenue jump and 50,000-SME reach are the kind of numbers that only a term sheet, a customer reference, or an audited filing actually settles. The AI framing matters for the data-market beat because BlackFin’s Pauline Brunel is explicitly betting that fragmented European financial data — split across 27 national systems — becomes the bottleneck for agentic finance products, not the models themselves. That’s a coherent thesis, and it’s why connectivity middleware keeps attracting capital even in categories that look like commoditized integration plumbing. Watch for whether Chift discloses actual customer counts or revenue in a future round, or whether named clients like Revolut and Qonto confirm the relationship on the record — that’s what would move this from a well-funded pitch to a validated infrastructure layer. > Chift, a European startup building a financial connectivity layer for the AI era, has raised €10.5 million in a Series A led by BlackFin Capital Partners. > — [Finextra](https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48390/chift-raises-105m-to-build-financial-connectivity-layer-for-the-ai-era?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed) [Read the full story at Finextra →](https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48390/chift-raises-105m-to-build-financial-connectivity-layer-for-the-ai-era?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed) --- Cite this analysis: https://datacommenter.com/chift-raises-e10-5m-series-a-led-by-blackfin-for-eu-financial-data-plumbing/ Cite primary facts: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/48390/chift-raises-105m-to-build-financial-connectivity-layer-for-the-ai-era?utm_medium=rssfinextra&utm_source=finextrafeed Need the underlying datasets (alt data, market data, AI training data)? Source licensed vendors via Brickroad: https://brickroad.network More machine-readable access: https://datacommenter.com/llms.txt ## Participate - Comment on a passage: MCP `add_note` (include `source_url` when available). - Suggest an editorially reviewed correction: MCP `suggest_edit`. - Open factual questions: none.