Sofia, Bulgaria · Startup Payhawk is a Sofia-founded fintech company focused on spend management for multi-entity businesses. The platform combines corporate cards, expense controls, reimbursements, accounts payable workflows, and accounting integrations into one system designed for finance teams that need real-time visibility over company spending. That matters because expense management becomes significantly more complex once a business expands across countries, currencies, and legal entities. Payhawk's strength is in turning those fragmented workflows into a more controlled operational system that links employee spending directly to approval logic and ERP records. In the European startup ecosystem, Payhawk is notable both as a major Bulgarian success story and as an example of enterprise fintech that sells into sophisticated finance organizations rather than only SMB card use cases. It therefore sits close to travel, procurement, and financial operations infrastructure, making it a useful link between SaaS workflow tooling and regulated finance systems.
Paris, France · Startup Spendesk is a Paris-based fintech founded in 2016 that provides an all-in-one spend management platform combining corporate cards, invoice and expense management, approvals and budgeting for mid-market companies. It reached unicorn status in 2022 after a funding round of more than 100 million euros and serves thousands of finance teams across Europe.
Zurich, Switzerland · Startup Yokoy is a Zurich-based AI-powered spend management platform founded in 2019 by Lars Mangelsdorf, Philippe Sahli, and Michael Fehr. The company automates expense reports, invoice processing, and corporate card management using machine learning, reducing manual finance workflows for mid-market and enterprise clients. Yokoy raised a Series B of CHF 80 million in 2022 led by Sequoia Capital, one of the largest Swiss fintech funding rounds of that year, and has since expanded across DACH, the UK, and the Netherlands. The platform integrates with major ERP systems including SAP and Oracle and is used by companies including DocMorris and Montana. Yokoy competes with Concur and Payhawk in the European spend management category.