LinkedIn·Wednesday, 22 July 2026·22 Jul 2026

Week 60 after the press release Dear clients, auditors & friends, 60 weeks ago, we announced that Auditstage had raised €750K from Smartfin…

Natalia Khamraeva

From Auditor to Founder | Leading a tech startup to revolutionize financial auditing | Certified Public Accountant

Week 60 after the press release Dear clients, auditors & friends, 60 weeks ago, we announced that Auditstage had raised €750K from Smartfin and that Jürgen Ingels wanted to help us build the future of financial auditing Everyone congratulated us, but I remember feeling mostly one thing: pressure to prove that the crazy vision in my head could actually become reality So in the past 60 weeks we built deterministic engines for virtually every aspect of financial auditing And today I am proud to anounce that Auditstage has raised a €2M Seed round led by Smartfin to turn those engines into a complex sequence of AI agents and to ship an enterprise-grade version of what we believe is the most complete auditing software that has ever existed This would have not been possible without our biggest supporter Jürgen Ingels from whom I learned an incredible dose of entrepreneurship, who opened so many doors and who kept believing also when times were difficult 🫶 I'm equally excited to welcome Paul-Henri Boey and Frederic Pieters as angel investors. They've followed our journey from the very beginning, long before this round, and I'm grateful to now have them officially on board By the start of the 2026–2027 busy season, we'll finally be ready to show the audit profession what we've been quietly building over the last 60 weeks 🙌 Stay tuned for next week's update Natalia