Monite raises €1.1 million in Pre-Seed funding

Berlin: Today German startup Monite launches a finance management platform that automates the admin and accounting processes for SMEs and announces it has raised €1.1 million in pre-seed funding. Its investors include Tomahawk VC, signals Venture Capital, InVentures, and Runa Capital. Ex-Deutsche Bank board Ralph Müller, Postbank Board Member Lars Stoy, ex-Global Head of FX Trading and Sales at Commerzbank Alfred Schorno, former Managing Partner for McKinsey Central Europe Cornelius Walter, General Partner of Acrobator VC Bas Godska and other top investors focusing on scalable SaaS joined the round as angels.

The startup states that small to medium-sized businesses spend on average 15 hours per week or 19% of their time in total doing financial admin tasks. Although it becomes one of their most time-consuming business activities, not all companies even try to streamline these processes with software tools — only 45% of UK companies are using technology to manage their administrative tasks, while others waste billions on admin every year. Monite aims to solve this problem and combines accounting and admin tools in one platform, saving time and significantly reducing costs.

Monite (founded in 2020) connects to the company’s bank accounts, in order to invoice clients, manage employee expenses, handle incoming bills, and complete accounting right within the system. Auto-mapping everything for accounting, the platform can easily prepare a Datev export for tax submission and can deal with tax accountant’s questions over a chat. In addition, Monite saves and organizes documents in a tax-compliant way and provides a full finance overview of the company.

“Before launching the platform we’ve studied more than 300 SMEs and freelancers across Europe and found 76.5% of them prefer to use one platform for the admin needs, rather than constantly switching between 5 or 6 narrowly-focused tools,” Ivan Maryasin, CEO of Monite, says. “With Monite we strive to replace all those tools, saving 50% of both time and money and boosting productivity”.

Now the team behind Monite builds a financial assistant for the SME owner and automates operational tasks for freelancers and companies up to 100 employees across different industries. Planning to launch the platform later this year, the team now opens a waitlist on its website. With the announced funding round Monite will improve the platform and open new product lines by the end of 2021.