London-based Alpa has raised $3.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Daphni. Having previously founded Taster and launched Deliveroo in France, Alpa was co-founded by Anton Soulier to enable hospitality business operators to base decisions on real-time profitability data, rather than waiting weeks for the books to close.
Hospitality is one of the largest and most operationally complex sectors in Europe, yet financial visibility remains delayed, fragmented and accounting-driven. Most restaurant groups only understand profitability weeks after the end of the month, once accounting is closed, creating what can be costly delays in operational decision-making.
Indeed, recent research shows that 79% of restaurants want real-time data, but 27% say they can’t track basic KPIs.
The Alpa team is addressing this structural gap by building a real-time, operational financial layer that offers over 2,000,000 European hospitality businesses continuous visibility into margins, costs, cash-flow and profitability.
Alpa structures fragmented financial data from POS systems, banking infrastructure and direct supplier integrations into a live operational profit and losses (P&L). This enables restaurant groups to understand gross margin, labour, overheads and profitability in real time, without bookkeeping, reconciliation or accounting workflows. The platform is designed for daily use by operators, while remaining fully complementary to existing accounting systems.
“Hospitality runs on thin margins, but financial visibility still operates on monthly cycles,” said Anton Soulier, Co-Founder & CEO of Alpa. “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.”
“The real moat is not just data access, it’s native connectivity,” added Jean-François Moy, Co-founder & CTO of Alpa. “We’re building direct connections to the hospitality supply chain itself: POS systems, banking infrastructure, and food and beverage suppliers, and using automation and AI to structure that data into real-time financial understanding. This funding allows us to go deep on engineering, machine learning and large-scale classification to make that possible.”
Alpa is already operational with early-stage franchise and restaurant group pilots, for example Taster brand SpudBros Express is onboard.
The $3.5 million funding round will be used to strengthen Alpa’s core product and engineering capabilities, including financial data infrastructure, native supplier integrations, automation, AI-driven classification, and operator-grade financial workflows. The company will invest primarily in engineering and product to build a scalable, hospitality-native financial platform designed for long-term category leadership.
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