Cologne startup NX Technologies raises EUR 5 million in seed financing round
- larissamarschewski
- May 3, 2022
- 3 min read
With its digital platform bezahl.de, Cologne-based NX Technologies GmbH is raising the processes involved in receivables and payment management to a new level. To this end, the young company has brought prominent support from the FinTech scene on board.
In the current round of financing, the Cologne-based startup raised over five million euros at the end of 2021. The round was led by embedded/capital, the new fund of Finleap makers Ramin Niroumand and Michael Hock, and Marco Schnabl, the entrepreneur and co-founder of automotiveMastermind, who is particularly successful in the US market.
""With the payment platform bezahl.de, NX Technologies has solved a real pain in the automotive environment and discovered enormous growth potential - both in other markets and in product extensions such as BNPL. The excellent combination of payment and automotive know-how in the team and among the shareholders , creates the optimal basis for a great success story. We look forward to the next steps with the team!",
says Michael Hock about the cooperation.
The investors complement a top-class shareholder group of industry and investment experts such as Rolf Christof Dienst (Founder of Wellington Partners), Carlo Kölzer (Founder and CEO of 360T), Kai Siersleben (Managing Director at Copart Deutschland GmbH, formerly CEO Autoline and Control€xpert), Dr. Gerhard Cromme (inter alia Chairman of the Supervisory Board of AUTO1 Group SE) and Carl-Peter Forster (former Board Member of BMW AG, Chairman of the Board of Adam Opel AG, President of General Motors Europe and Group CEO of TATA Motors).
"As an investor from the very beginning, we recognized the potential of the team and the product bezahl.de early on and have been closely involved in the great development of the company. We are all the more pleased about the acquisition of further top investors from the FinTech environment, who will be very valuable for the forthcoming big steps of the company!",
confirms Rolf Christof Dienst.
bezahl.de sets new standards for payment management in the automotive sector
bezahl.de automates, digitizes and simplifies the entire process from the request for payment to booking in the financial accounting system of its customers. In the automotive environment, the platform with its holistic and vertical solution approach has already become the industry standard for receivables and payment management. Leading industry players such as AVAG Holding SE, Sixt Leasing and the Beresa Group already trust in the innovative solution from bezahl.de. With a market share of around 50% in the top 100 segment of the German car trade and prominent recommendations from the VW, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Toyota partner association, among others, bezahl.de is now also increasingly receiving customers from other high-volume sectors with individual payments and accounts receivable. Since the product went live in 2019, more than 200,000 car sales and workshop visits with a volume of over 3 billion euros have been managed via the innovative platform.
“The funding from world-class investors validates our mission to set the standard for payments management and prepare our innovative platform for expansion into more verticals and countries. We will use the funds from the oversubscribed round to strengthen our pole position in the automotive sector and to introduce an embedded Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) product.",
say the founders of NX Technologies, Lasse Diener and Ulrich Schmidt.
Über bezahl.de und NX Technologies GmbH bezahl.de ist eine technologiegetriebene Plattform für ganzheitliches Zahlungs- und Forderungsmanagement, welche von NX Technologies entwickelt und betrieben wird. Die digitale Lösung besteht derzeit aus fünf integrierten Modulen, die die Zahlungsprozesse ihrer KundInnen von der Zahlungsaufforderung bis hin zum Mahnwesen ganzheitlich optimieren. So ermöglicht bezahl.de den automatisierten Versand von digitalen Zahlungseinladungen und -bestätigungen, das Angebot verschiedener Multichannel Zahlungsmethoden, einen Live-Bezahlstatus über alle Forderungen sowie eine neue Technologie für die 100% Zuordnung und Verbuchung in bestehenden FiBu und ERP Systemen. Weiterhin sorgen individuell zubuchbare Add-on-Lösungen wie ein Geldwäsche- Präventions-Check und ein automatisiertes Forderungsmanagement für eine ganzheitliche Abbildung des gesamten Forderungsprozesses.
Alle Module profitieren von einer starken Buchhaltungsautomatisierung mit verlässlicher Schnittstelle zu Finanzbuchhaltungssoftware und gängigen Dealer-Management-Systemen (DMS) wie easy-car-sales, Loco-Soft oder GeNesys. Mit bezahl.de erhalten Finanzabteilungen einen Echtzeit-Überblick und Kontrolle über alle Forderungen und stärken die Produktivität im gesamten Unternehmen. Das FinTech mit Hauptsitz in Köln arbeitet seit Mitte 2018 mit einem Team aus mittlerweile über 70 Finanz- und Software-ExpertInnen an der Lösung für ein ganzheitliches Zahlungsmanagement. Gegründet wurde das Unternehmen von Lasse Diener und Ulrich Schmidt.
Kontakt:
Larissa Marschewski
Lead Communication
+49 (0) 221 17738380
communicate@bezahl.de
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