Plinto secures €2.9m to drive real-time finance with AI

Plinto, a FinTech company focused on bringing real-time finance to businesses, has closed a €2.9m pre-seed round. The investors are People Ventures and Emblem.

The company says the new capital will go towards speeding up product development and entering new markets. Plinto describes the aim of the investment as helping a wider range of companies tap into the potential of AI and move towards finance that operates in real time.

One of the backers, People Ventures, is an operationally focused early-stage fund headquartered in Copenhagen with a Nordic remit. It supports founders hands-on in areas including finance, sales and go-to-market strategy. Its portfolio companies include Pandektes, Hosted.ai and After Technologies.

The report gives no further detail on Plinto's product, its customers, the markets it plans to enter, or how its AI works. Beyond the round size, the investors and the stated use of funds, the picture is limited to the company's broad ambition of real-time, AI-enabled finance for businesses.

For the Nordic startup scene, the round is another early-stage fintech investment led by a Copenhagen-based fund with a regional focus, in a segment where companies are pushing to bring AI into finance functions.