France Startup Rivage Secures €2.6M Funding To Grow Payroll Software For Accounting Firms

The funding round included Partech, along with business angel investors from the technology and accounting industries, including the founders of Skello, Hexa, Quarksup, and Teledec.

In France, more than half of employees depend on accounting firms or outsourcing providers for payroll processing and social security filings. This makes payroll software a critical part of a large market that is still heavily reliant on legacy systems, many of which are not fully adapted to the ongoing digital transformation needs of accounting firms and their small and medium-sized business clients.

In response to these challenges, Rivage is developing an open, interoperable payroll software platform designed to increase the productivity of payroll managers and position payroll data as a tool for broader HR advisory services. The solution is already being deployed across eight partner firms.

Founded in 2025 by Ayoub Saidane, Hector Vergeron, Paul Lemoine and CEO Tancrède d’Hauteville Rivage is focused on delivering a modern and scalable payroll solution built around interoperability.

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The platform is designed to handle changing regulatory requirements efficiently while reducing the workload of payroll managers by automating complex and time intensive processes.

In a segment that has seen limited technological innovation, the company positions itself within a market where advances in AI are creating new opportunities to improve efficiency for firms.

Commenting on the challenges facing the sector, Tancrède d’Hauteville said: Between the increasing complexity of regulatory frameworks, the accelerating digitalisation of VSBs/SMBs and the suffocating monopoly imposed by legacy solutions, payroll has become a major pain point for firms. From the outset, we built Rivage with our accounting partners, to enable them to break out of this dependence, to gain long-term productivity and to be in line with their customers’ demands.

The funding will support two main priorities: continued development of the platform to improve the efficiency and reliability of each stage of the payroll cycle, including HRIS integrations, simplified advanced configuration, and enhanced auditability of payroll and DSN calculations; and the expansion of collective agreement coverage, with plans to broaden the number supported by the platform by the end of the year.

About Rivage

Rivage is a payroll management platform built for accounting firms and their small and medium-sized business clients. It offers a modern, interoperable solution designed to streamline payroll processing, automate complex administrative tasks and support regulatory compliance, helping firms improve efficiency while delivering enhanced payroll and HR advisory services to their clients.