Round, the AI-powered finance automation platform used by some of Europe’s fastest-growing companies and unicorns, has raised $6 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Alstin Capital, with participation from BACKED VC and Love Ventures. Roughly 10% of Round’s existing customers also invested, alongside new angel investors including Paul Forster, co-founder of Indeed. Existing investors, including Passion Capital, the early backers of Monzo, Tide, and GoCardless, doubled down on their investment. Round was founded to combat a persistent problem in finance teams: despite heavy investment in software, systems are disconnected and still require much of the day-to-day work to be completed manually. What makes Round so different and unique is that it shifts finance from software that advises to systems that execute, automating real tasks like payments, payroll and cash management. It acts as an execution layer across fragmented finance tools, solving the problem of teams acting as “human middleware.” Built as an AI-native platform, it combines software with financial infrastructure to actually move money, not just analyse it. This positions Round to redefine the role of finance teams, removing manual work and enabling more strategic focus - and places it at the centre of a potentially large new category in AI-driven enterprise infrastructure.Following the launch of its first automated workflows less than a year ago, the platform has processed over $500 million in transactions, working with companies such as Cleo and PostHog. The funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen integrations across banks and financial systems, and scale the platform’s infrastructure.Alongside the funding, the company is launching two new products to expand its service offerings. Its Agentic Workflow Builder will allow finance teams to describe their desired automated workflow in plain English, which the platform will then build for their approval. Its Autonomous Payroll will handle payroll operations end-to-end, from funding through to payment execution. This will streamline the process, negating the need for manual funding. Hayyaan Ahmad, co-founder of Round, said: “We’re building for a world where finance doesn’t just analyse what’s happening - it actually runs it. Today, finance teams spend too much time acting as the glue between systems. With Round, they can describe what needs to happen, approve it, and it runs automatically in the background. This funding allows us to take that model across every repetitive process in finance - from payments to payroll - and move teams away from manual execution towards real strategic work.”Pac O’Shea, co-founder of Round, said: “Everyone’s trying to build an AI CFO - something that tells you what to do. We’re focused on doing the work itself. The biggest bottleneck in finance isn’t decision-making, it’s execution. Teams are still manually running payments, moving cash and reconciling systems. We’re building the execution layer that sits across that entire stack and runs it automatically. This backing from some of Europe’s leading investors is a strong validation that this is where finance is heading.”Andreas Schenk, Partner at Alstin Capital, said: “Round understands that true finance automation requires infrastructure, not just software. The platform is positioned between banks, ERPs, and payment rails and orchestrates cash flows in real time. This is not an optimization of existing processes, but a fundamentally new way for companies to manage their finance operations. This vision and impressive execution convinced us as lead investor.”NoYesFundraising News13 Apr, 2026