Benford raises €5M to rebuild financial audit from the ground up

Fintech Benford announced today that it raised €5m in pre-seed funding to build a new-generation, tech-native financial audit firm that runs statutory audits end to end, from clients’ systems to the signed opinion. Instead of selling software to auditors, Benford becomes the auditor. The round was led by firstminute capital , Global Founders Capital , Sondo, and the people who built the software the accounting profession runs on today: Peter ter Maaten (HSO), Arthur Waller and Quentin de Metz (