Berlin-based ARC Intelligence has raised €4 mn in seed funding to expand its AI-native finance platform for enterprises. 42CAP led the round, with existing investors 468 Capital and IBB Ventures also taking part, according to Beinsure.
ARC develops a Finance OS designed for companies with complex ERP environments.
The platform connects ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems into one data layer, giving finance teams a real-time view of financial and operational performance without forcing them to replace existing software.
The company says finance teams still rely too much on scattered data, spreadsheets and manual reporting. ARC wants to reduce that dependency by automating reporting workflows and helping CFOs make faster decisions across multi-entity business structures.
According to ARC, its platform has already supported more than 200,000 business decisions and saved over 100,000 hours of manual work within six months. Since its pre-seed round around a year ago, the company says revenue has grown tenfold.
Its customer base now includes Burmester, Pfanner Schutzbekleidung, Ferrotec, OCONO Group and Robert Bürkle.
ARC also works with private equity firms including Auctus Capital and GENUI, where portfolio companies often run several ERP systems at once after years of acquisitions or operational expansion.
The company was founded in 2023 by Wessendorff and CTO Simon Zimmermann. Over the past 18 months, ARC has moved from a data tool for small and medium-sized businesses toward a finance operating system aimed at CFOs.
Clemens Wessendorff, CEO and co-founder of ARC Intelligence, said the future of enterprise software will not come from ripping out existing ERP systems. In his view, companies need a smarter way to connect data, processes and decisions across the systems they already use.
That’s exactly what we’re building with ARC – an AI-native Finance OS that gives companies a central control layer across their existing systems and evolves into the operating system for ERP-intensive businesses.
Clemens Wessendorff, CEO and co-founder of ARC Intelligence
The new funding will go into product development, more ERP connections, engineering hires and international expansion. ARC plans to strengthen its position among mid-market and upper-mid-market companies, where finance teams often need better consolidation, margin reporting and operational analysis without spending years on ERP replacement projects.
The seed round also moved unusually fast. Wessendorff told the process took roughly a week from first conversations to a signed term sheet. He said 42CAP understood the category early, helped by general partner Moritz Zimmermann’s background in enterprise software.
That investor speed points to a broader shift in enterprise software funding. Companies spend well over $50 bn a year on ERP software worldwide, yet many groups still run systems that do not communicate cleanly across subsidiaries, regions or acquired entities.
Investors now see AI as a way to fix parts of that problem without forcing a full system replacement.
ARC’s product works as an ontology layer above existing ERP systems. Wessendorff said the platform ingests data through standard ETL pipelines, loads it into a central model and applies AI to reporting and analysis. The practical use case is straightforward: groups with several subsidiaries use ARC to combine consolidation, margin and performance reporting, cutting manual reconciliation work.
Zimmermann’s earlier experience in financial due diligence and mergers and acquisitions at Deloitte helped shape the product idea. The founders kept seeing the same problem: ERP systems held useful financial data, but companies lacked a clean way to connect and analyse it without costly replacement work.
ARC positions itself between Lucanet, known for financial consolidation, and OneStream, which serves larger enterprise customers. That competitive map has changed.
Hg acquired Lucanet in 2022 and completed a $6.4 bn take-private acquisition of OneStream in April 2026, putting two of ARC’s named competitors under the same private equity owner.
For an eight-person startup, that creates a demanding category to enter. ARC now competes in a market where large incumbents have deeper distribution, bigger implementation teams and strong private equity backing. Its bet rests on speed, narrower focus and a product architecture built for companies that want better finance data without another ERP overhaul.
ARC says revenue has grown tenfold since the December 2024 pre-seed round, and the company aims to repeat that growth this year. The latest round brings disclosed funding to roughly €5 mn.
Most of the fresh capital will support go-to-market work. ARC plans to start international expansion in the Netherlands, then move into the UK. Wessendorff described the U.S. as a longer-term target rather than an immediate priority. The team, now eight people, expects to grow to about 25 within the next year.
Moritz Zimmermann, general partner at 42CAP and co-founder of Hybris, said ARC has generated unusually strong customer enthusiasm for such an early stage company. Hybris, the German e-commerce software company, sold to SAP for around $1.5 bn in 2013.
According to Beinsure, ARC’s timing fits a wider enterprise software cycle in which CFOs want faster reporting, cleaner operational data and AI-assisted analysis, but still resist large ERP replacement projects. That tension gives finance infrastructure startups room to grow, provided they prove savings, accuracy and speed inside real enterprise environments.
