Spendesk secures €100M in Series C funding led by General Atlantic

By Megha Bhattacharya

Spendesk, the all-in-one spend management platform for finance teams, has raised €100M in Series C funding led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic. All previous investors, including Index Ventures and Eight Roads Ventures, also participated in this round, bringing Spendesk’s total funding to €160M.

With the new funds, Spendesk plans to affirm its position as a leading spend management solution in Europe. This includes doubling headcount within the next two years and accelerating product innovation, with Slack and Microsoft alumnus James Colgan having recently joined as Chief Product Officer.

“Work culture is becoming increasingly informed by our private lives. Employees crave more empowerment, agility and faster decision-making to be effective in their roles. And traditionally, finance teams haven’t been equipped with the tools that can support this transformation,” said Spendesk’s co-founder and CEO, Rodolphe Ardant. “In the past few years we have built the reference spend management solution for finance teams in Europe, which frees businesses and their people from administrative constraints of spending and managing money at work. While our solution is about empowering finance teams, we are actually delivering value to the entire business through the finance team.”

Spendesk offers an intuitive SaaS spend management solution that provides full visibility and control on all company spending — with every purchase trackable to a person, a project, and a budget. The platform combines payments, processes and data into one source of truth, with virtual and physical cards for employees, expense reimbursements, invoice management, automated spend approvals, and budgets. The solution aims to liberate finance teams from day-to-day admin tasks, freeing them to focus on proactive and strategic value-add.

“We are thrilled to have top-tier growth equity firm General Atlantic join as an investor and support our mission to transform spending at work. We will greatly benefit from their expertise in scaling SaaS and fintech disruptors such as OpenClassrooms, Doctolib, Typeform and Mollie,” Ardant added.

Aaron Goldman, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Financial Services at General Atlantic, continued, “Rodolphe and the Spendesk team have set out to become the operating system for business spending – delivering visibility, transparency, and control to the CFO suite. The company is driving much-needed digital innovation in antiquated finance processes and helping to define the spend management software category. We are excited to back Spendesk’s mission and look forward to partnering to accelerate the business’ rapid growth.”