Alpa, a London-based hospitality-focused FinTech startup, today announced that it has raised €2.9 million ($3.5 million) in its pre-Seed funding round to strengthen its core product and engineering capabilities.
The round was led by Daphni, with participation from True Capital, 2100 Ventures, Firedrop, Oprtrs Club, Kima Ventures, and Sonorcap. A group of hospitality and tech angel investors also invested, including Voodoo founder Alexandre Yazdi and former Burger King France CEO and McDonald’s Europe CFO Jerome Tafani, who has joined the board.
“Hospitality runs on thin margins, but financial visibility still operates on monthly cycles. That gap creates massive inefficiency and destroys value. Alpa is built to close it by giving operators real-time financial clarity so they can make decisions during the month, not after it. We’re not replacing accounting systems; we’re building the operational financial layer they’ve always been missing,” said Anton Soulier, co-founder and CEO of Alpa.
Recent EU-Startups coverage of 2025–2026 funding into hospitality-adjacent financial and operating infrastructure across Europe includes Amsterdam-based Klearly’s €12 million Series A round (January 2026), Amsterdam-based Mews’ €255 million Series D (January 2026), Amsterdam-based Tebi’s €30 million Series B (June 2025), London-based HospitalityTech startup Nory’s €31 million Series B (September 2025), UK-based yetipay’s €4 million round (July 2025), and Amsterdam-based HospitalityTech startup Toppi’s €1 million funding round (August 2025).
Founded in 2026 by Anton Soulier and Jean-François Moy, Alpa is a FinTech platform for hospitality that offers restaurant groups a real-time view of margins, costs, cash flow, and profitability. It claims to be the financial operating system that hospitality has been missing.
Soulier, a food and technology entrepreneur, was previously employee number seven at Deliveroo, where he spent three years leading the company’s expansion into France. Following that, in 2017, he launched Taster, a creator-led restaurant chain that launches unique restaurant brands alongside well-known content creators and chefs.
Moy was previously at Vestiaire Collective, where he led multi-country engineering teams across London, Paris, and Berlin.
Alpa states that hospitality is among Europe’s largest and most operationally intricate sectors. However, financial visibility is often delayed, fragmented, and heavily reliant on accounting. Many restaurant groups only grasp profitability weeks after the month-end when accounting is finalised, leading to potentially costly delays in operational decisions.
The company cites research indicating that 79% of restaurants want real-time data, but 27% say they can’t track basic KPIs.
Alpa claims to address this structural gap by building a real-time, operational financial layer that offers over 2,000,000 European hospitality businesses continuous visibility into margins, costs, cash-flow and profitability.
Alpa structures fragmented financial data from POS systems, banking infrastructure and direct supplier integrations into a live operational profit and losses (P&L). According to the company, this enables restaurant groups to understand gross margin, labour, overheads and profitability in real time, without bookkeeping, reconciliation or accounting workflows. The platform is intended for daily use by operators and is designed to complement existing accounting systems.
“The real moat is not just data access, it’s native connectivity. We’re building direct connections to the hospitality supply chain itself: POS systems, banking infrastructure, and food and beverage suppliers, and using automation and AI to structure that data into real-time financial understanding. This funding allows us to go deep on engineering, machine learning and large-scale classification to make that possible,” said Jean-François Moy, co-founder and CTO of Alpa.
Explaining how Alpa is different from accounting software, the company mentioned that Alpa doesn’t replace bookkeeping tools; it works alongside them. While accounting software focuses on compliance and historical reporting, Alpa claims to focus on helping hospitality business owners understand performance, margins, and profitability so that they can make better decisions about their businesses.
The fresh capital will be used by the UK startup to strengthen its core product and engineering capabilities, including financial data infrastructure, native supplier integrations, automation, AI-driven classification, and operator-grade financial workflows. The company will invest primarily in engineering and product to build a scalable, hospitality-native financial platform designed for long-term category leadership.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/02/taster-founders-uk-fintech-startup-alpa-raises-e2-9-million-to-build-a-financial-operating-system-for-hospitality/
