Kontist is an all-in-one digital platform combining banking, bookkeeping and tax advisory aimed at freelancers and self-employed professionals. The company offers an app that integrates banking and bookkeeping to give users more financial security and control. Kontist says it targets freelancers who it believes will shape the future of work and provide services tailored to their complex finances. The firm was founded in Berlin in 2016 and employs more than 120 people. Kontist is managed by founder and CEO Christopher Plantener and Co-CEO Benjamin Esser. The company plans to use new capital to further its expansion in Germany. Kontist is a Berlin-based fintech that combines banking for freelancers and the self-employed with tax advisory. Its core product bundles freelancer-focused banking with tax services and offers real-time, AI-supported tax calculation for freelancers. The company announced a €25 million Series B to bolster that tax services business. The round was led by Founders, which incubated Kontist together with CEO Christopher Plantener, and Haufe Group also participated. Haufe Group previously acquired a minority stake in 2018 as part of a Series A investment. Management says the funding supports sustainability and continuity and will help simplify work for the self-employed, particularly amid the coronavirus pandemic. Kontist is a Berlin-based neobank founded in 2016 that targets self-employed customers and small businesses in Germany. The product simplifies tax payments for freelancers by automatically setting aside income tax and VAT each month to avoid surprise bills. The company’s stated goal is to make freelancing as simple and straightforward from an accounting perspective as working as a full-time employee. Kontist has raised an undisclosed Series A led by Haufe Group with participation from Founders. In partnership with Haufe Group, Kontist plans to launch a co-creation lab to build integrations for different financial products to help small businesses grow. The company will introduce deep integration with the Lexoffice accounting software and aims to streamline SMB workflows by integrating services and partners on one platform. Kontist is a Berlin-based developer of a banking app dedicated to freelancers and founders. Co-founded in early 2016 by Christopher Plantener, Alexander Baatz, Sebastian Galonska and Madison Bell, the company aims to create a bank account tailored to freelance businesses. Kontist implements high safety standards: all data is encrypted and sensitive account actions are secured with two-factor authentication, and it states it will never share user information without permission. Deposits are secured by the European deposit fund up to €100k. The company planned to launch early in 2017. It raised €2m to continue developing its app.

Total raised

$36M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Debt Financing

Latest activity

Nov 2021