Chift
Chift is a Brussels-based unified API platform that enables SaaS companies to integrate with accounting, POS, e-commerce, and invoicing tools through a single connection, having raised EUR 2.3M in seed funding in 2024.
Founded in 2022 by Gauthier Henroz (CEO), Henry Hertoghe (CTO), and Matthieu Hertoghe (Head of Engineering), Chift focuses specifically on the financial software integration layer. Rather than trying to cover every possible category, Chift chose to go deep on tools that generate financial data, including accounting software, POS systems, e-commerce platforms, and invoicing tools.
The positioning has attracted a strong early customer base of Fintech and SaaS companies that need their products to connect with the tools their customers already use. Early clients include Pennylane, Agicap, Pleo, Mollie, and Qonto. Investors in Chift's seed round included Entourage (Pieterjan Bouten's fund), Shapers (Philippe Teixeira da Mota's fund), Seeder Fund, and several business angels.
In June 2024, Chift raised EUR 2.3M in seed funding, which it plans to use to double the team and expand its connector library across European financial software ecosystems.
Funding History
Seed, EUR 2.3M (June 2024): Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund, business angels
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Gauthier Henroz discusses how Chift's early days involved signing clients before officially creating the company, facing constraints that he learned to view as opportunities, and deciding to focus on locking down the entire European market rather than pursuing the US market initially. He also describes his daily responsibilities as CEO, which include representing the company at events across multiple European countries like Amsterdam, Madrid, and Paris, and emphasizes the importance of setting personal deadlines to maintain momentum and accountability.
Gauthier Henroz is the CEO and co-founder of Shift, a company focused on facilitating integrations between software tools for small and medium-sized enterprises that lack the resources of larger companies to manage complex integration projects. In this episode, he discusses how Shift helps connect different software solutions that are poorly integrated together, addressing the integration challenges faced by TPE PME businesses.
Gauthier Henroz discusses how Chift operates as a financial data integration platform that connects different software tools used by small and medium-sized businesses. He explains that PMEs typically use multiple software applications such as e-commerce platforms, accounting software, point-of-sale systems, and cash flow management tools, and Chift solves the interconnection problem by allowing software editors to connect once to Chift's universal system rather than building individual integrations for each client's different tool combinations.