“Can a European-native unified API for financial data become the default integration layer for both SaaS vendors and AI agents across the fragmented EU accounting/POS/PMS software landscape?”
Chift launched in 2022 as a Belgian 'unified API for financial data' — a European counterpart to Codat/Rutter/Merge focused on accounting, POS, ecommerce, invoicing, payments, and PMS connectors. Its wedge is deep European coverage (Pennylane, Exact, DATEV, Odoo, Sage 200 ES, a3ERP, Tripletex, Zelty, Planity, Lightspeed) that US-centric competitors lack. In 2026 it repositioned around the AI era, launching Chift for AI / MCP server so agentic products can act on financial systems through one integration.
Chift discloses qonto as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
Chift does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through qonto.
Chift's lending and capital products are provided by defacto.
Chift connects to bank accounts through GoCardless.
Chift integrates with Xero, QuickBooks, Pennylane, Exact, Odoo, Sage 200 ES, DATEV, a3ERP and 3 others.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 6 layers in Chift's stack: Banking / BaaS (qonto); Lending (defacto); Open banking (GoCardless); Unified APIs (Chift (self-operated) and chift); Accounting (Xero, QuickBooks, Pennylane, Exact and 7 others); Spend / AP (Pleo).
Chift was founded by Gauthier Henroz, Matthieu Hertoghe and Henry Hertoghe and is founded in 2022, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
Chift has raised $3.2M in total (latest round: Seed (€2.3M)).
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