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Offices
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$36.7M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$18.3M
Venture round · Jun 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
The money's age
Long since its last round
64 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 14 First role in Germany Brand Designer Localisation Aug 13 First executive search Head of People Partnering & Development Aug 7 First role in Spain Senior AI Engineer Jun 9, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $18.3M · YahooFinance Jan 7, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $18.4M · YahooFinance 2020 Founded
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jun 2021 $18.3M — YahooFinance
Venture round Jan 2021 $18.4M — YahooFinance
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Overview

Pennylane is a French accounting and financial management software company whose platform combines technology with accounting support for start-ups and small and medium businesses. Customers get a customised steering view updated in real time, and the website draws over 450,000 monthly visits. The company is headquartered in Paris, France.

News

News pennylane.ai 10 months ago
Introducing lattice surgery PennyLane Demos
Learn about lattice surgery for fault tolerant quantum computing with topological codes such as the surface code.
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News CNBC 1 year ago
French fintech Pennylane doubles valuation to $2.2 billion as Alphabet's venture capital arm takes stake
Accounting software startup Pennylane has raised 75 million euros ($83 million) in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
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News NBC 6 South Florida 1 year ago
French fintech Pennylane doubles valuation to $2.2 billion as Alphabet's venture capital arm takes stake
Accounting software startup Pennylane has raised 75 million euros ($83 million) in a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital.
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News pennylane.ai 1 year ago
Material discovery reborn: Applications of quantum computing in quantum dynamics PennyLane Blog
Learn how quantum computing can revolutionize material discovery by enabling simulations of quantum dynamics. This blog post explores a novel quantum algorithm for vibronic dynamics with a case study on designing more efficient solar cells based on single
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News YahooFinance 2 years ago
Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France's latest unicorn
Just like clockwork, Pennylane is raising another €40 million ($43 million at today's exchange rate). This new funding round comes after the accounting startup raised €4 million in 2020, €15 million in 2021, another €15 million in 2021 again, €50 million
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News Business Insider 2 years ago
Sequoia-backed fintech Pennylane just became a unicorn. Check out the 15-slide pitch deck it used to raise $43 million.
The French startup, founded in 2020, works with SMEs to help simplify and digitize their accounting processes.
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News pennylane.ai 3 years ago
Coding Challenges - PennyLane
Get hands-on experience with quantum computing in PennyLane - from quantum chemistry to quantum machine learning - using our exclusive coding challenges
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News pennylane.ai 3 years ago
PennyLane v0.32 released PennyLane Blog
PennyLane v0.32 is out, with features including interactive datasets, block-encoding operations, detailed logging functionality, qubit resetting, and more.
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News pennylane.ai 3 years ago
Is quantum computing useful before fault tolerance? PennyLane Demos
Using IBM's 127-qubit quantum computer to simulate deep quantum circuits using Zero Noise Extrapolation
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News pennylane.ai 3 years ago
Introduction to the ZX-calculus PennyLane Demos
Introduction to the ZX-calculus and use cases.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Pennylane over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
36
Postings analysed
35
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Ruby11%
SQL9%
Python6%
TypeScript6%
Frameworks & libraries
Ruby on Rails9%
Jest3%
React.js3%
Cloud & platforms
AWS11%
Perplexity6%
Kubernetes6%
Amazon EKS3%
AI & ML
ChatGPT6%
LLM3%
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Full Pennylane tech stack 36 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
0
2 opened / 5 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
26 days
faster than 46% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 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.
Finance
15% ▲
HR
15% ▼
Management
11% ▲
Marketing
11% ▲
Sales
11%
Customer Success
11% ▼

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Paris France
HQ
16 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
seen since Feb 2026
Earlier presence
Berlin, Germany 3 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Marseille, France 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Aix-en-Provence, France 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Rouen, France 1 open roles · last posting Jun 2026
Toulon, France 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026
Avignon, France 1 open roles · last posting Aug 2026

Financials

Total raised
$36.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $18.3M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $18.4M Details