Alpa lands $3.5M to build financial platform for hospitality

London-based Alpa has raised $3.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Daphni, with participation from True Capital, 2100 Ventures, Firedrop, Oprtrs Club, Kima Ventures, and Sonorcap. Angel investors include Alexandre Yazdi (Voodoo founder) and Jerome Tafani (former Burger King France CEO and McDonald’s Europe CFO), who has joined the board.

Hospitality remains one of Europe’s largest and most operationally complex sectors, yet financial visibility is often delayed, fragmented, and accounting-driven. Many restaurant groups only gain a clear understanding of profitability weeks after the month-end, which can slow operational decision-making. Recent research suggests that while 79 per cent of restaurants want real-time data, 27 per cent are unable to track basic key performance indicators.

Co-founded by Anton Soulier and Jean-François Moy, Alpa is a fintech platform designed to address this gap. The company aims to enable restaurant operators to make decisions based on real-time profitability data rather than waiting weeks for monthly accounts to close.

By integrating POS data, banking data, and native connections to food and beverage suppliers, Alpa generates a live operational profit and loss view without requiring traditional accounting, reconciliation, or bookkeeping workflows. The platform is built for operators rather than accountants, allowing hospitality businesses to monitor profitability during the month instead of after the books are closed.

Hospitality runs on thin margins, but financial visibility still operates on monthly cycles. That gap creates massive inefficiency and destroys value.
Alpa is built to close it by giving operators real-time financial clarity so they can make decisions during the month, not after it. We’re not replacing accounting systems; we’re building the operational financial layer they’ve always been missing,

explained Anton Soulier, co-founder and CEO of Alpa.

As vertical fintech continues to reshape financial services, Alpa is positioning itself as a category-focused platform for hospitality, combining real-time financial data, automation, AI, and native supply-chain connectivity to support profitability, control, and long-term scalability.

The new funding will be used to strengthen Alpa’s core product and engineering capabilities, including its financial data infrastructure, native supplier integrations, automation, AI-driven classification, and operator-grade financial workflows. The company plans to invest primarily in engineering and product development to build a scalable, hospitality-native financial platform.