RIVAGE RAISES €2.6M FROM PARTECH TO ACCELERATE THE DEPLOYMENT OF ITS PAYROLL SOFTWARE ACROSS ACCOUNTING FIRMS

Rivage is developing an open, interoperable payroll software, already in deployment across 8 partner firms, designed to increase the productivity of payroll managers and transform payroll data into a lever for HR advisory services.

• €2.6M pre-Seed funding round
• Already in production, covering 40 national collective agreements already
• Acceleration in 2026: deployment to new firms, extension to 150 collective agreements by the end of 2026 (90%+ of the French workforce) and 10+ integrations with the HR/Accounting ecosystem

Paris, France, February 12, 2026 - Rivage announces today a €2.6M pre-Seed funding round to accelerate the deployment of its payroll software across accounting firms. Rivage has brought together Partech (an early investor in Pennylane, Alan, Epsor, etc.) and Business Angels entrepreneurs in tech and accounting (including the founders of Skello, Hexa, Quarksup and Teledec).

Founded in July 2025, Rivage was born from the meeting of two complementary engineering/sales tandems: Ayoub and Paul, from École Polytechnique and CentraleSupélec respectively, and HEC graduates Hector and Tancrède. This complementary skill set lies at the heart of Rivage's ambition to develop and deploy an open, interoperable payroll software in record time, designed from the outset to evolve and absorb regulatory complexity on a large scale, while freeing payroll managers from the most painful and time-consuming tasks. Long under-addressed technologically, the payroll market represents a huge field of innovation, where AI makes it possible to sustainably reduce the operational burden weighing on firms.

Currently deployed by 8 partner accounting firms, Rivage is preparing to accelerate their deployment with a growing number of firms in 2026.

This funding round will accelerate two key projects: the continuous improvement of the platform, with the priority of streamlining and rendering each stage of the payroll cycle more fluid and reliable (HRIS connectivity, simplified advanced configuration, complete auditability of payroll and DSN calculations, etc.); and the extension of conventional coverage (Rivage already covers 40 CCNs and is aiming for 150+ CCNs by the end of the year).

"Between the increasing complexity of regulatory frameworks, the accelerating digitalization 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,” says Tancrède d’Hauteville, CEO of Rivage. “This funding will enable us to accelerate the deployment of our solution, intensify the extension of our regulatory coverage and structure our legal practices, in an increasingly critical context for accounting firms.”

More than half of French employees currently depend on an accounting firm or an outsourcing service provider for their payroll and social security declarations. Software that orchestrates these flows therefore occupy a strategic position in a colossal market, which nevertheless remains dominated by aging solutions that are ill-suited to the accelerated digitalisation of firms and their SMB clients. Against this backdrop, Rivage intends to bring a modern, scalable alternative focused on interoperability, similar to the revival observed in recent years in the adjacent accounting market.

“As investors in Pennylane, we know how much accounting firms are looking for solutions to increase productivity,” comments Alison Imbert, Partner at Partech. “When we met with the Rivage team, the evidence was clear. The payroll market needs a new player, and this founding team has an exceptional ability to exploit AI to build a business software with deep functional capabilities and impeccable compliance.”

About Rivage

Rivage is an open and interoperable payroll software for accounting firms and their SMB clients. Designed to streamline payroll workflows, strengthen the controls and auditability of payroll calculations and transform payroll into a leader for social advisory services for firms, Rivage combines a next-generation payroll engine, a rapidly-expanding coverage of collective agreements and integrations with the HR/Accounting ecosystems.

To learn more about Rivage, visit https://www.rivage.tech/

Media Contact

Tancrède d’Hauteville, CEO Rivage
tancrede@rivage.tech

About Partech

Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. We are a team made up of industry and technology experts who are independent thinkers. Partech brings together capital, operational experience, and strategic support to back entrepreneurs from seed to growth stage. Born in San Francisco 40 years ago, today Partech manages €2.7B AUM and a current portfolio of 220 companies, spread across 40 countries and 4 continents.

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