Paris-based Rivage has secured €2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the rollout of its payroll software tailored for accounting firms.
The round includes backing from Partech, alongside business angels from the technology and accounting sectors, including founders of Skello, Hexa, Quarksup, and Teledec.
A Critical Yet Outdated Market
In France, more than half of employees rely on accounting firms or outsourcing providers for payroll processing and social security declarations. Despite its central role in business operations, payroll software remains heavily dependent on legacy systems that are often ill-suited to the digital transformation demands of accounting firms and their SME clients.
Rivage is positioning itself to address this gap with an open, interoperable payroll platform designed to increase productivity for payroll managers while transforming payroll data into a strategic asset for HR advisory services. The solution is already live with eight partner accounting firms.
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Built For Interoperability And Regulatory Complexity
Founded in 2025 by Ayoub Saidane, Hector Vergeron, Paul Lemoine and CEO Tancrède d’Hauteville, Rivage aims to deliver a scalable payroll infrastructure built around interoperability and automation.
The platform is engineered to manage evolving regulatory requirements efficiently, while reducing manual workload through automation of complex and time-consuming payroll processes. In a sector that has seen limited innovation, Rivage is leveraging advances in AI to streamline compliance and improve operational efficiency.
Tancrède d’Hauteville commented:
Between increasingly complex regulations, accelerating digitalisation among small businesses, and the dominance of legacy providers, payroll has become a significant pain point for firms. From day one, we built Rivage alongside accounting partners to help them regain independence, improve long-term productivity, and meet their clients’ expectations.
Product Expansion And Broader Coverage
The newly raised capital will focus on two priorities. First, further development of the platform to enhance efficiency and reliability across the payroll cycle, including deeper HRIS integrations, simplified advanced configurations, and improved auditability of payroll and DSN calculations.
Second, Rivage plans to expand its coverage of collective agreements, increasing the number supported by the platform by the end of the year.
With payroll positioned at the intersection of compliance, HR, and financial operations, Rivage aims to modernise a critical yet under-innovated segment of the accounting software market.
