AI-powered financial operations platform for venture-backed start-ups plans to scale across Europe.
Seapoint, a Dublin fintech founded by former Stripe executives, has raised €7.5m in seed funding as it formally launches its product to founders across the UK and Ireland.
Seapoint is an AI powered financial operations platform for venture backed startups.
“We’re a team of 20 engineers and operators from Stripe, Tide, and other high-growth fintech companies, building from Dublin and London”
The round will be used to scale across Europe and deepen its product offering.
The raise brings total funding to €10m in just over a year and was led by London based fintech investor 13books, with participation from Frontline Ventures, Tapestry VC and more than 40 angel investors.
Seapoint was founded in January 2025 by Sean Mullaney, former European CIO of Stripe, alongside a team that includes a significant number of Stripe and Tide alumni.
Many of them have built companies themselves and say the product is shaped by frustrations they encountered while trying to manage finances at an early stage.
“Until now, founders have been stuck piecing this together themselves – cash spread across multiple financial products, invoices unpaid in Gmail, an accountant’s report that arrives three weeks after month-end with no vendor breakdown and no way to act on it,” Mullaney wrote in his company blog.
“As one founder put it: ‘The biggest risk to a start-up is you run out of money. So having the finance overview is so important.’ Another, building his second company, told me: ‘I find finance very painful. I put lots of thought into it this time around, and it’s still an absolute nightmare.’”
How Seapoint works
The seed round coincides with Seapoint opening self-service signups for the first time to founders in the UK and Ireland, following a private beta with more than 80 design partner startups. The platform is aimed at venture backed companies from pre seed to Series A, a group that often ends up juggling multiple financial providers as they scale.
Using AI, Seapoint connects to a company’s existing bank accounts, email and accounting systems to automate tasks such as bookkeeping, expense management, payroll and reporting.
It also offers embedded financial products including multi-currency accounts, payments, cards, treasury and foreign exchange, allowing teams to manage day to day financial operations in one place.
“We’re a team of 20 engineers and operators from Stripe, Tide, and other high-growth fintech companies, building from Dublin and London,” Mullaney wrote. “When you need help, you shouldn’t get a chatbot. You should get someone who knows your business and responds fast.”
The investor list includes high profile fintech executives such as former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson, former Tide UK chief Laurence Krieger, Intercom co founder Des Traynor and Kota chief executive Luke Mackey, underlining the depth of industry support behind the company.
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