Helu.io

Accounting & Tax Software
3hiring now · +2 posted in 30 days
$10Mlatest round · Series A · Jul 2022 · 4 yr ago
4backers · Atlantic, CommerzVentures
50+team · employees, estimated range

Overview

Helu.io is a software company offering a B2B SaaS platform for financial reporting, planning and controlling based on DATEV data. The platform analyses cost centres, cash flow and liquidity and replaces spreadsheet-based forecasting, and the company hires B2B sales managers, customer success managers and business development interns. It is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$10M
1 round on record
Latest round
$10M
Series A · Jul 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Atlantic, CommerzVentures
The money's age
Long since its last round
51 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size
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
Jul 27, 2022 Raised a round Series A $10M · PYMNTS.com 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Series A Jul 2022 $10M — PYMNTS.com
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Helu.io GmbH its site
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Franz SalzmannGeschäftsführercompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
3
3 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
7 days
faster than 81% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
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.
Sales
73% ▼
Data Science
9% ▲
HR
9% ▲
Customer Success
9% ▼
Actively hiring for Sales (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$10M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series A 2022 $10M Details

People

Franz Salzmann
Geschäftsführer
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Helu.io over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
76/100
Languages
Python
SQL
Frameworks & libraries
Polars
Databases
Amazon Redshift
ClickHouse
Google BigQuery
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Lambda
AWS Step Functions
Amazon S3
Spark
Developer tools
Git
pySpark
Docker
Terraform
Practices & domains
CI/CD
ETL/ELT
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Connections

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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors4
CommerzVenturesVia a fund
36 portfolio companies: Unique, Volt, Tuum and 33 more
IrisVia a fund
60 portfolio companies: Vates, Sibforms, Qlik and 57 more
AtlanticVia a fund
102 portfolio companies: Zenjob, zero44, HIGHCAT and 99 more
SpeedinvestVia a fund
286 portfolio companies: Motherduck, 9amHealth Inc, +Simple and 283 more
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News

News Trending Topics 3 years ago
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News PYMNTS.com 4 years ago
SMB Budgeting Platform Helu.io Raises $10M in Series A
Helu.io, a budgeting and financial reporting platform for SMBs, announced the close of its Series A round, which raised over 9.8 million euros ($10 million).
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News PYMNTS.com 4 years ago
SMB Budgeting Platform Helu.io Raises $10M in Series A
Helu.io, a budgeting and financial reporting platform for SMBs, announced the close of its Series A round, which raised over 9.8 million euros ($10 million).
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News Trending Topics 4 years ago
Helu: Wiener Fintech holt frische 9,8 Millionen Euro in der Series A
Vor ziemlich genau einem Jahr hat Franz Salzmann bereits aufgezeigt, als er sich in einer Seed-Runde 4,2 Millionen Euro (5 Mio. Dollar) von einer Reihe
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News Payment & Banking 4 years ago
10 Mio. Dollar für Controlling-Fintech Helu.io
Das 2020 gegründete Fintech Helu.io hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, zum Standard für den Mittelstand in den Bereichen Reporting, Controlling und Budgetierung zu werden. Jetzt sichert sich das Wiener Unternehmen eine Millionenfinanzierung.
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News FAZ.NET 5 years ago
Helu sammelt 5 Millionen Euro für Steuerberater-Technik ein
Sind nach Zahlungsdienstleistern und Versicherungsmaklern die Steuerberater dran? Das Fintech-Start-up Helu glaubt an die Digitalisierung dieser Branche und bietet eine Technik, mit der Berater und Mandanten gemeinsam arbeiten.
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News Trending Topics 5 years ago
Helu: Neues Wiener Startup holt 4,2 Mio. Euro - unter anderem von Bitpanda-CEO
Früher war er auf der Seite des Investors am Tisch, jetzt ist er unter die Gründer gegangen: Franz Salzmann, bis 2019 Partner beim Wiener VC Speedinvest,
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Vienna
Vienna Austria
HQ
3 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings