Overview
Founded in 2025, Ravical is building agentic AI software targeting professional services firms, including consultancies, legal practices, accounting firms, and similar knowledge-work businesses. Agentic AI refers to AI systems that can take multi-step actions, use tools, and complete complex tasks with minimal human intervention.
The company raised EUR 7.3M in a pre-seed round led by Lakestar, a top-tier European VC known for early investments in companies like Spotify and Skype. Co-investors Pitchdrive and Entourage provide Belgian network support. The Lakestar lead at pre-seed stage is unusual and signals strong conviction in the founding team and the market thesis.
At EUR 7.3M, the raise is one of the largest pre-seed rounds in Belgian startup history, giving Ravical an extended runway to validate product-market fit before a Series A.
Media & appearances
- Ben's MentorsYouTubeVan Bootstrappen Tot €300M Exit: Succes is nooit overnight!Joris's second startup building agentic AI infrastructure so advisory/accounting firms can scale advice without depending on billable hours, with 22 people and a raise of over €7M at the start.
- Johan de WitYouTubeHoe 'defensible' is jouw SaaS product nog?New venture announced by Belgian tech entrepreneur Joris Van Der Gucht, building AI agents for professional services firms like accountants and lawyers.
Stated facts & numbers
- Ravical raised more than €7 million at its start, partly own capital and partly an external European partner.Ben's Mentors 2026-03-201:26:50
- Ravical has a team of 22 people.Ben's Mentors 2026-03-201:22:13
- Nearly 100% of Ravical's design partners have become paying customers.Ben's Mentors 2026-03-201:29:52
- By 31 December 2025 Ravical achieved its targeted international proof points in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.Ben's Mentors 2026-03-201:30:23
- Ravical's founding thesis was that around 80% of what happens around SMEs worldwide can be automated by foundational models.Ben's Mentors 2026-03-201:26:20
- Belgian tech entrepreneur Joris Van Der Gucht sold Silverfin roughly two years ago and announced his new venture Ravical (AI agents for professional services) the day before recording.Johan de Wit 2025-05-220:32:47
Funding & milestones
1 events found for Ravical · 2025
Pre-seedVenture / equityDetailsEUR 7.3M
Reported amount EUR 7,300,000
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Profile narrative
- Pre-seed: EUR 7.3M (May 2025), led by Lakestar, co-investors Pitchdrive, Entourage. See Ravical Pre-Seed 2025.
Leadership & org chart
In the news
- Today we're launching Client Memory, so the whole team works from the same context on a client. Most clients are served by more than one person. Each of them knows things about the client the others do not, and none of them has the full picture. Client Memory brings those pieces together in one place. As Ravical works on a client, it writes what matters to that client's memory automatically. An adviser can add to it too, and Ravical keeps it consolidated, so it stays a clean, current picture rather than a growing pile. The result
- A firm's knowledge of its clients lives in documents. The engagement letters, the signed accounts, the advice given two years ago, the filing that decides how this year's is handled. In every accounting firm those documents sit in a system someone has to open and search. One of the platforms firms trust to keep them is M-Files, and today we're announcing our partnership with them. Ravical's agents now work with those documents directly, and bring them into the work itself. For accountants, this means the right document is
- When we were brainstorming about Ravical in 2024, one of the things we agreed on is that we have to show up where the work happens. Not yet another tool people have to open. Low friction, high adoption. That's why we started with an inbox agent. After a while we learned there was a need for a space to do more advanced and deeper work, where a control center should live, and so we introduced the workspace. Now we're following that same thesis again and soon we'll be adding add-ins for Word and Excel, because whether we like it or not,
- Last week we launched Workflows. In this short demo our Lead Product Manager shows how it looks like.
- Today we're launching Domain Knowledge, so every piece of work is grounded in the law itself. AI has made tax law and regulatory guidance easy to ask about. It has not made the work easy to trust. A generated answer can sound right about a rule and still rest on the wrong article, or on a version that changed last year. Domain Knowledge fixes that. When work in Ravical touches tax law, legislation or regulatory guidance, the agent does not answer from memory. It retrieves the relevant text from the sources Ravical indexes itself,
- Great advice in accounting and tax depends on the numbers it's leaning on. The invoices that actually came in, the VAT position as it stands, the way a client's numbers have moved all year. In Belgium one of the players we've partnered with to do that is Yuki. Ravical's agents now work directly with the administrations accounting firms keep accurate in Yuki every day, and carry them into the work itself. For accountants, this means working from a full view of every client. They just have to describe the task in Ravical, and the
- We zoeken iemand voor een nieuwe rol bij Ravical, accountancy engineer. Een paar jaar echte ervaring in een Belgisch accountantskantoor, zodat je weet hoe een jaarafsluiting er van binnenuit uitziet. En je hebt zelf al dingen gebouwd met AI. Scripts, agents, kleine tools, wat dan ook. Het hoeft nog niet mooi te zijn. Herken je je hierin en ben je nieuwsgierig, stuur me een DM. https://lnkd.in/eN9X8mYb
- Every month, Dutch accounting firms run payroll for thousands of businesses. Processed on time, correct to the cent, and then, mostly, filed away. All that data, read by almost no one. Today we're announcing our partnership with Nmbrs Payroll, covering Nmbrs Payroll and Nmbrs Accounting, previously known as Yuki. Ravical's agents now work directly with both, and what firms process every month becomes something they work with every day. Ravical's agents work with that data the way an adviser would want to: as part of the full
Backers
Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive is a venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups, with four funds raised totaling €250K-2M in first-check investments, and a portfolio of over 70 companies backed globally.
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