Cortea
Accounting & Tax Software · Financial AI
11open roles
$13Mlatest round · Seed · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago
1backers · Dawn Capital
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Purpose-built AI agents for audit teams — automating evidence testing, financial validation & compliance. Aligned to ISA (UK) & FRC standards. Trusted by Forvis Mazars.
Key facts
As of Nov 13, 2026, Alion lists 11 open roles at Cortea. Cortea is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 2024. The latest round is Seed of $13M, announced in 2026.
- Open roles
- 11Its careers board, read on Nov 13, 2026
- Headquarters
- Berlin, GermanyAlion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Founded
- 2024Alion company profile, updated Nov 13, 2026
- Employees
- 50+Alion company profile, an estimated range
- Total raised
- $13MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
- Latest round
- Seed · $13M · Jun 16, 2026Press report · manilatimes.net
- Technologies in its job postings
- 27Named in its job postings
How Cortea hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Cortea scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$13M
1 round on record
Latest round
$13M
Seed · Jun 2026 · 4 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
11
open roles
Backers
1
Dawn Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
4 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 10
Hiring paused no new role in 60 days after 12 in half a year
Jun 16
Raised a round Seed $13M
2024
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Jun 2026 | $13M | — | manilatimes.net |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | AI Audit Systems GmbH | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Valentin NeumannManaging Directorscompany's site
Philipp HövelmannManaging Directorscompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
49/100
Stable
Open positions
11
0 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
72 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
20% ▼
Backend
20% ▼
DevOps
20% ▼
Design
20% ▼
Operations
20% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linear to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$13M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | $13M | Details |
People
Valentin Neumann
Managing Directors
Philipp Hövelmann
Managing Directors
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cortea over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
27
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
85/100AI adopter
Languages
Python20%
JavaScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js10%
Tailwind CSS10%
Databases
PostgreSQL20%
ClickHouse10%
Google BigQuery10%
Redis10%
Cloud & platforms
GCP30%
Kubernetes20%
Azure20%
Langfuse10%
AI & ML
LLM30%
Claude10%
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27 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
Dawn CapitalVia a fund
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Same company
Same group
Likely
Shared investors
News
GNW-News: KI in der Berichtskritik: dhpg und Cortea vereinbaren Technologiepartnerschaft
Die dhpg, die größte, auf den Mittelstand fokussierte Prüfungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft in Deutschland, und Cortea haben eine Technologiepartnerschaft geschlossen, um KI-Agenten in der Abschlussprüfung zu entwickeln und einzusetzen Corteas Berichtskriti
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KI in der Berichtskritik: dhpg und Cortea vereinbaren Technologiepartnerschaft
Die beiden Unternehmen entwickeln gemeinsam KI-Agenten für die Abschlussprüfung: Die fachlichen Vorgaben kommen dafür aus der Prüfungspraxis. Die dhpg, die größte, auf den Mittelstand fokussierte…
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Cortea Raises €12 Million To Help Audit Firms Adopt AI
Cortea, a company building an AI quality layer for audit firms, announced it has raised €12 million in seed funding. The round was led by Dawn Capital, with participation from Cherry Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, and angel investors including Larry Bradley,
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Cortea erhält 12 Millionen Euro, damit Wirtschaftsprüfer KI ohne Qualitätsverlust einsetzen können
Corteas Audit Quality Agents haben in der vergangenen Prüfungssaison mehr als 4.000 Prüfungsberichte für dutzende Prüfungsgesellschaften geprüft. Sie helfen Wirtschaftsprüfern, Auffälligkeiten vor der
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Berlin
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Berlin
Germany
HQ
9 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Backend, DevOps
London
United Kingdom
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
How to cite this page
Alion, "Cortea: key facts", as of Nov 13, 2026. https://alion.io/company/cortea
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