Gentle, an AI-native finance platform out of Copenhagen that processes 280 million data in underneath a second, right this moment introduced €25 million in Collection A funding to develop to the US, triple its engineering crew, and additional construct out the deployment division.
The spherical was led by Balderton Capital. Atomico, Cherry, Seedcamp, and Entrée additionally participated within the spherical alongside notable angels, together with Thomas Wolf (Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face), Charles Songhurst (Board Member, Meta), and several other customers-turned-investors. The funding brings whole raised to €36 million.
“We’re not patching outdated techniques with chatbots,” mentioned Jonathan Sanders, Founder and CEO of Gentle. “We constructed finance software program from scratch for the way firms really function right this moment. Firms shouldn’t should spend $50,000 and 5 months simply to develop into a brand new nation. With Gentle, it occurs immediately.
“ERP was constructed for factories. Gentle is constructed for the fastest-growing firms of the twenty first century.“
Based in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Jonathan Sanders, Gentle says they remedy a important downside: offering finance instruments in a position to maintain tempo with hypergrowth firms which are scaling a lot sooner than conventional SaaS companies. Whereas rivals add AI options to decades-old structure, Gentle explains they constructed their complete platform with AI on the core to be natural software program that evolves and improves over time – from database design to consumer expertise.
In accordance with the corporate, the place legacy techniques fail at processing 1 million data, Gentle handles 280 million in underneath a second. Stability sheets generate immediately. Multi-entity accounting, world funds, and expense administration occur routinely throughout jurisdictions. The platform’s AI reportedly matches human accuracy whereas catching errors that professionals usually miss.
Within the broader 2025 funding panorama, Gentle’s €25 million Collection A sits in direction of the higher center of the pack amongst AI-enabled finance/FinTech rounds.
Some friends are elevating in double-digit thousands and thousands (€25 million for Finary, €115 million for Fnality), whereas others stay in Seed or sub-€10 million ranges (e.g. €825k for Eagl, €5.8 million for NaroIQ, €2.5 million for Allasso).
Many of those firms deal with fixing discrete monetary workflows (wealth instruments, funds, fund infrastructure, month-end shut), whereas Gentle seems to place itself as a full normal ledger/ERP substitute constructed round AI.
“We’ve seen numerous finance platforms through the years, however nearly all of them tweak on the edges,” mentioned Rob Moffat, Companion at Balderton Capital. “Gentle is the primary to throw out the outdated playbook. By rebuilding the final ledger from scratch as an alternative of bolting onto legacy techniques, they’ve unlocked the complete energy of AI. The consequence isn’t simply sooner, it’s a step-change. That is the monetary platform hypergrowth firms have been ready for.”
The funding comes as the corporate stories 30x progress over the previous 12 months, with clients decreasing finance operations time by 84% after switching from legacy ERPs.
Gentle’s engineering crew is drawn from Spotify, Google, Klarna, AWS, Reserving.com, and Shopify. Lovable, Sana, and Legora are among the many firms which have changed their fragmented finance instruments with Gentle’s unified platform.
The platform already companions with established monetary infrastructure together with JP Morgan, Adyen, and BDO, making certain enterprise-grade reliability whereas delivering startup-speed innovation.
The Collection A funding will speed up Gentle’s geographic growth by organising a brand new workplace in New York. The corporate plans to triple its engineering crew by Q2 2026, launch a course of optimisation workbench and additional construct out the deployment division.
EU-Startups has beforehand lined Gentle on a number of events. In June 2024, we reported on the corporate’s €12.1 million spherical to scale its AI-driven normal ledger platform for world finance groups. Extra lately, Gentle was featured in a January 2025 article highlighting 10 promising Danish startups to observe in 2025 and past, the place it was famous for its AI-powered strategy to accounting and reporting.
