Rivage is developing an interoperable payroll software platform for accounting firms, designed to improve payroll efficiency, reduce administrative burden, and support digital transformation through automation and AI-driven capabilities.
Paris-based Rivage has closed a €2.6 million pre-seed funding round to support the rollout of its payroll software across accounting firms. The round includes Partech, alongside business angel investors from the technology and accounting sectors, including the founders of Skello, Hexa, Quarksup, and Teledec.
More than half of employees in France rely on accounting firms or outsourcing providers for payroll and social security declarations. As a result, payroll software plays a central role in a large market that remains largely dominated by legacy systems, many of which are not fully aligned with the ongoing digital transformation of firms and their small and medium-sized business clients.
In response to these challenges, Rivage is developing an open, interoperable payroll software platform designed to increase the productivity of payroll managers and position payroll data as a tool for broader HR advisory services. The solution is already being deployed across eight partner firms.
Founded in July 2025 by Ayoub Saidane, Hector Vergeron, Paul Lemoine, and Tancrède d’Hauteville (CEO), Rivage aims to offer a modern, scalable alternative focused on interoperability. The platform is designed to adapt to evolving regulatory requirements at scale while reducing the administrative burden on payroll managers through the automation of complex and time-consuming tasks.
In a segment that has seen limited technological innovation, the company positions itself within a market where advances in AI are creating new opportunities to improve efficiency for firms.
Commenting on the challenges facing the sector, Tancrède d’Hauteville said:
Between the increasing complexity of regulatory frameworks, the accelerating digitalisation 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.
The funding will support two main priorities: continued development of the platform to improve the efficiency and reliability of each stage of the payroll cycle, including HRIS integrations, simplified advanced configuration, and enhanced auditability of payroll and DSN calculations; and the expansion of collective agreement coverage, with plans to broaden the number supported by the platform by the end of the year.