Marijke Haas
Co-founder & CEO
Ran month-end at a logistics group for six years before this. Still reads the close board every Monday morning.
About
Finance teams should not have to rebuild a month that already happened.
One ledger for corporate cards, supplier bills and the close —so a month is reviewed rather than reconstructed.
- 2,400
- Finance teams close on Finly
- €3.1B
- Moves across the ledger a year
- 180
- People, in two cities
- 2019
- Founded in Amsterdam
Our story
It started with a spreadsheet that would not reconcile.
Marijke Haas and Tomas Ekdahl met closing the books at a logistics company in Amsterdam. Between them they had a bank portal, an expense tool, a folder of supplier PDFs and a spreadsheet that was meant to make the four agree. The close took eleven working days, and twice a year it was wrong.
The reflex everyone had was to buy another tool. They wanted the opposite — one ledger that every card, bill and bank line writes to as it lands, so that closing a month is a review rather than a reconstruction. They started building it in 2019, above a bike shop on the Herengracht, with one customer who had exactly the same problem.
Seven years on, 2,400 finance teams close on Finly and €3.1B a year moves across it. The company is 180 people in two cities. The premise has not moved: a number is only useful when it arrives with the sentence that explains it.
Marijke Haas and Tomas Ekdahl · Co-founders, Amsterdam
How we work
Four things we will not trade away.
Not a poster in the kitchen.These are the arguments we actually have, written down so that a new engineer can win one in their first week.
- The number carries its sentence.
- Every figure we ship arrives with whatever explains it. A screen that shows a balance and not the reason it moved is the problem we set out to fix, and we are not allowed to reintroduce it one feature at a time.
- Boring where the money moves.
- Clever belongs in the parts nobody audits. The ledger, the payment run and the bank match get the dull, obvious implementation and the test that fails loudly when it is wrong.
- Fix the cause, not the ticket.
- A support ticket names a symptom. We close it by finding every other place the same thing can happen — slower on the day, cheaper every day after it.
- Write it down.
- Decisions get written in prose, with the reasoning and the option we turned down. Anything that only exists in someone's head belongs to them rather than to the company.
The team
The people who own the ledger.
A slice of a hundred and eighty.The three who run the company, then some of the people whose names are on the pull requests and the payment runs.
Tomas Ekdahl
Co-founder & CTO
Wrote the first double-entry ledger on a laptop in 2019. Owns the bank-feed matcher and the migration path.
Sofia Mendes
Chief Operating Officer
Grew the Lisbon office from four people to fifty-six. Runs support, implementation and partnerships.
The wider team
Ruth Adeyemi
Engineering Manager, Ledger
Daan Verhoeven
Staff Engineer
Nadia Okonkwo
Product Designer
Luca Ferretti
Backend Engineer, Payments
Elise Duval
Head of Customer
Peter Møller
Head of Compliance
Ingrid Sandberg
Financial Controller
Jonas Weber
Implementation Lead
Amara Diallo
Support Engineer
Rui Almeida
Partnerships Lead
A hundred and eighty people across Amsterdam and Lisbon.
9 open rolesNames and roles are invented; the portraits are stock, licensed CC0.
Backed by
- Vellum Capital
- Thornbury Ventures
- Nordhavn Growth
- Ashgrove Partners
€64M raised across a seed, a Series A and a Series B. The firms are invented, as is Finly.
Milestones
Seven years, told in seven lines.
Founded above a bike shop in 2019;a hundred and eighty people in two cities now.Nothing here has been rounded.
2019
Founded in Amsterdam
Two people, one spreadsheet that would not reconcile, and a first customer with exactly the same problem.
2020
First cards issued
Corporate cards that carry their own policy — limits and categories on the card itself. Seed round of €4M, led by Vellum Capital.
2021
Bill pay ships
Supplier bills arrive, get read, and route to the right approver by threshold. One payment run clears the queue.
2022
The close ships
Coding and bank matching move to the moment a transaction lands, so month end becomes a review. Series A of €18M. The hundredth team joins.
2023
Lisbon opens
Bank feeds live in eleven countries, and a second office to support them across a wider working day.
2024
Sixty connectors
Accounting, ERP, HRIS, banking and identity, every one of them syncing both ways. Series B of €42M.
2026
Where we are now
2,400 finance teams close on Finly, €3.1B moves across it a year, and 180 people keep it running.
Where we are
Two offices, one ledger.
Amsterdam holds the product and the ledger;Lisbon holds the people your team will actually talk to.Everyone is in three days a week.
Amsterdam
Ledgerkade 12 · 1017 AB Amsterdam
Product, engineering and finance. The ledger is written here.
124 people · Headquarters
Lisbon
Rua do Livro 24 · 1100-000 Lisboa
Support, implementation and partnerships, across a wider working day.
56 people · Opened 2023
In the press
What has been written about us.
Four pieces of coverage since the Series A.
The Ledger Weekly
The close is the new battleground in European fintech
Payments Europe
Finly raises €42M to take the month-end scramble apart
Founders Quarterly
Two founders, one spreadsheet, and 2,400 finance teams
Amsterdam Business Post
Why Finly stayed in Amsterdam
Publications and coverage are invented for this sample, as is Finly.
Careers
We are hiring in both cities.
9 roles open across engineering, finance, customer and design.Everyone is in the office three days a week, in whichever of the two cities you live nearest to, and every role publishes its salary band before you apply.
- 9
- roles open right now, across four teams
- 3 days
- a week in the office, the other two anywhere
- 2 wks
- from first call to a decision, or we tell you why not
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