Today we are announcing our €18m Series A, co-led by Mosaic Ventures and Reid Hoffman, with our existing investors Cherry Ventures, General Catalyst and Puzzle Ventures joining again. It brings the total capital raised by Integral to more than €30m, less than two years after Anil and I sat in a small office in Berlin and decided to start this company.A press release went out this morning. It has the numbers, the quotes and the usual content. This post is the part we could not fit into a press release: why we started, what we have learned from the people who actually do this work every day and what we intend to do with the trust that a lot of people have just placed in us.Where this startedBefore Integral, we spent years building banking and payments for businesses. We talked to thousands of founders and one thing came up in almost every conversation, usually with a sigh. It was never the product, never the market, never the team. It was the paperwork. The monthly bookkeeping that was three months behind. The payroll run that depended on one person remembering to send a spreadsheet. The annual accounts that turned every spring into a scramble. The tax advisor who was excellent, overworked and difficult to reach.Everyone treated this as a fact of life. We started to wonder why.The answer we kept arriving at was uncomfortable. Software doesn't file your business's taxes. It doesn't run your payroll and it doesn't sign your annual accounts. A licensed professional does. And every year there are fewer of them. Firms turn down new clients because they cannot find people. Founders wait weeks for their books because the person who has to check them is buried in repetitive work. A whole generation of founders has quietly accepted that the most sensitive part of their business, the part that can get them in real trouble, runs on a backlog.We did not think that was an acceptable status quo. And we did not think another dashboard would fix it, because the constraint was never the tooling.Our approachSo we made a decision early on that still shapes everything we do. Instead of building yet another tool for professionals, we built a platform designed from day one to run an entire licensed practice and Integral Tax, an affiliated licensed professional services firm, runs on it end to end.It means the people who build the AI agents and the people who sign the filings work on the same problem, look at the same scenarios and argue about the same edge cases. When a professional at Integral Tax corrects a posting or overrides a suggestion, that correction does not disappear into a support ticket. It goes straight back into the platform and the system benefits from it. Every review by a licensed professional makes the automation deeper. Every deepening of the automation gives the professionals more time for the work only they can do.We wrote that loop on a whiteboard in our first month. Watching it work in real life has been the most satisfying part of the last two years. There is still lots of work to be done, but we fundamentally believe that we have to take the most difficult path: building the entire technology stack ourselves, end-to-end. With technology changing by the hour nowadays, we want to be in the position to implement changes very quickly and not having torely on third-party vendors for the key workflows.NoYesFundraising News16 Sep, 2026