Agent F, a Berlin-based startup building AI agents to automate accounting, financial controlling and planning, has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding. Alpha Edison, based in Los Angeles, led the round. Its partners have experience helping build technology companies including Microsoft, Apple, Google and Snap.
The company is developing an AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that connects a company's existing financial and operational systems. Its agents consolidate financial information, link banking data with accounting software such as DATEV, and track KPIs. The agents work across the tools a company already uses, log their actions so entries can be traced, and present results for human approval.
Agent F says administrative tasks that once took five to six hours a week are now down to around one hour. Schläger, who is quoted in the company's account, says the platform first learns how a business already operates and then compares those processes with best practice. Traditional ERP systems, by contrast, typically require companies to adapt to a standardised setup. The platform supports multiple legal entities, currencies and countries without full reimplementation, and can expand from bookkeeping into controlling, financial planning or warehouse management.
Schläger says the agents cannot take definitive actions independently, and a human, such as a tax adviser or managing director, always gives final approval. He says decisions with legal consequences or money transfers will stay out of agents' hands for the foreseeable future, and argues that regulatory systems are not ready for autonomous financial action. On jobs, he says early customer experience has been almost the opposite of job reduction, with finance roles becoming more valuable.
Agent F is entering a crowded field. Newer AI-native ERP companies such as Campfire and Rillet are challenging incumbents including SAP and Oracle. The company counts a former SAP chief technology officer among its advisers. It will first target fast-growing German tech companies, particularly startups from Series A onwards, before expanding across continental Europe.
