Integral raises €18M to build an AI-native accounting firm in Germany
What's the deal? Berlin-based IntegralDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised €18 million in a Series A round to expand its AI-powered accounting, tax, and payroll services for small and medium-sized businesses. The round was co-led by Mosaic VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and Reid HoffmanDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, with participation from Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst, and Puzzle VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. The investment brings Integral's total funding to more than €30 million.
What's the endgame? Founded in 2024 by Lukas Zörner and Anil Can Baykal, Integral is building an AI-native model for professional accounting services, starting in Germany. Rather than selling software to accountants, it combines AI agents with licensed professionals to deliver services directly to SMEs.
How it works: Integral TaxDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, an affiliated licensed German audit and tax firm, operates on the company's platform. Its AI agents handle repetitive work — reconciling invoices and bank transactions, creating account postings, and preparing payroll runs and tax filings — while licensed professionals review and sign off on the results.
Integral says its agents now prepare bookkeeping end-to-end for more than half of its clients, cutting average monthly turnaround from weeks to hours. Professionals at Integral Tax have doubled the number of clients they can serve since the start of the year.
Why now? Integral is targeting labour shortages in Germany's accounting and tax sector, where the number of licensed professionals is falling. "Software doesn't file your business's taxes. It doesn't run your payroll and it doesn't sign your annual accounts. A licensed professional does, and there are fewer of them every year," said Zörner, co-founder and chief executive officer.
The Series A funding will go toward hiring across AI engineering, licensed professionals, and commercial teams. Integral also plans to deepen automation across its workflows and develop its proprietary compliance technology for regulated financial work.
The signal: The round sits in the upper tier for its stage, landing in roughly the 63rd percentile by amount. It reflects a growing bet that AI in professional services works best not as a tool for existing firms, but as a replacement for the firm itself — with humans kept in the loop where regulation demands.
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