Sumary raises $4.2M to bring AI superpowers to bookkeepers and finance teams

Today, we are excited to share a major milestone in the Sumary journey.

We have raised a 4.2 million USD (27 million DKK) pre-seed round, which is among the largest ever completed in Denmark at this stage.

The round is led by byFounders with participation from Partech, Tenity, and a group of exceptional angels including Morten Primdahl (co-founder of Zendesk) and Christian Rasmussen (founder of Corpay One). Their belief in what we are building, this early, is a strong validation of both the scale of the problem and the strength of our approach.

Bookkeepers, controllers, and finance teams are the unsung heroes of every business.

They keep companies running, but for too long they have been held back by tools that were never designed for the complexity and volume of today’s financial work.

Regulation is changing faster. Transaction volumes are increasing. Data sits across a growing number of systems.

And yet, much of the work still happens manually.

At Sumary, our mission is simple:

give these teams the AI superpowers they deserve.

We are building an AI-native system that understands every transaction, every workflow, and every financial relationship inside the business. A system that automates repetitive work, catches mistakes before they become real problems, and gives instant, accurate answers to the questions finance teams are asked every day.

This is not AI as a small feature.

This is AI as the foundation.

Over the past six months, we have designed Sumary around the real workflows inside finance teams and accounting firms:

• An AI CFO that understands your ledger, answers complex financial questions, and explains the drivers behind your numbers
  
  
• Anomaly detection powered by a self-learning model trained on a company’s historical transactions, flagging miscodings, VAT issues, and inconsistencies before they become costly
  
  
• Transaction-level automation that reduces time spent on month-end close, reconciliations, and controlling
  
  
• Reporting and forecasting built specifically for SMBs, designed to be fast, clear, and always updated
  
  

Sumary is not a dashboard.

It is not a reporting tool.

It is an AI-native workflow engine for finance.

Even though we are still in early access, adoption has moved faster than expected.

During the past week, we have already begun the first controlled firm-wide rollouts with the first international accounting firms, and additional firms are already queued for onboarding. We have also welcomed new finance teams across retail, e-commerce, logistics, and services.

This early traction confirms what we believed from day one:

AI will fundamentally help reshape how finance work gets done, and the industry is ready for it.

This fundraise gives us the resources to accelerate product development, expand across Europe, and deepen the automation and intelligence we offer.

Our next chapter will be defined by two clear priorities:

1. Co-creating the future of finance with accounting firms

We are actively bringing more forward-thinking bookkeepers and CFO-service providers into our design-partner program. If you share our belief that AI will redefine the finance function, we would love to build this together.

2. Hiring exceptional tech talent

To deliver on our mission, we are expanding our team across engineering, AI and machine learning, and product.

If you are excited about agentic workflows, ML-driven financial intelligence, or reinventing an entire category, we would love to talk.

To our investors: thank you for the belief in our vision and for supporting an ambitious, AI-native approach.

To our design partners and early customers: thank you for the trust, the feedback, and the collaboration.

And to the Sumary team: incredibly proud to be building this with you.

This is just the beginning.

AI for finance, finally