The wire — 29 October 2026

One round reached the desk before the wire closed.

Ravical (Ghent) raised $17 million / approximately €15.6 million in a seed round led by MMC Ventures, with Lakestar, Pitchdrive, and Shapers co-investing. The company — founded in 2025 by Joris Van Der Gucht (CEO, previously co-founder of Silverfin, acquired for approximately €320 million), Ken Bastiaensen (CTO), and Benjamin Vandermarliere (CPO) — builds an AI platform for accounting and tax firms that encodes the working methods of a firm's best practitioners into standardised processes that AI executes across every client engagement. The proposition is firm-level improvement rather than individual productivity: individual AI assistants make each employee faster without making the firm more capable; Ravical's platform makes the firm's best way of working available to every engagement, regardless of who is assigned. The company counts more than 100 accounting firms across Europe as clients. The round funds product development, team growth, and commercial expansion across the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and further European markets, with the US named as a future target. Full story: Ravical.

No French rounds were on the desk today.