DataSnipper
👤 Jonas Ruyter, Maarten Alblas and Kai Bakker (Not auditors — Alblas coded, Ruyter sold; a friend's 500-row KPMG spreadsheet was the spark. Landed EY and KPMG by 2018.)🌐 site
The tedious half of an audit is matching numbers across documents. DataSnipper automates that inside Excel.
Will it work? · our read
Excel-native wins. A mandatory, tedious job met where it already lives: the spreadsheet. Bootstrapped to about $11M ARR, then a $1B round. The tech is copyable; the Big 4 habit is not.
01How the money moves
Auditor installs the Excel add-in
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Snips + auto-reconciles source docs
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Firm buys 5+ seats at about $175/seat/mo
02The numbers
€10M ARR (about $11M)StatedARR, bootstrapped (2022)
early 2022source:
1M to 10M EUR ARR in one year (2022)
First-party from the Feb 2024 raise announcement. DataSnipper
Third parties now estimate about $45M ARR (Sacra, 2023); company hasn't confirmed a fresh figure.
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- The CENTS scorecard — where it's strong, where it's soft
- The founder's key move, and the counter-move
- How it could die — the evidence, and how sure we are
- The case against our own call
- A 🚀 launchpad prompt — the case, as a plan for your business
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See a full teardown, free → ImportYetiSourcesSources last checked 22 July 2026
DataSnipper blog — company states 1M to 10M EUR ARR in one year, bootstrapped first-partyDataSnipper — $100M Series B at $1B valuation; 400K+ auditors, 125 countries first-partySacra — estimates about $45M ARR (2023), up from $18M (2022) estIndex Ventures — Series B lead; the auditor pain and product thesisSilicon Canals — founder interview, origin story
Headline revenue is DataSnipper's OWN stated figure at exit from bootstrapping: it grew from 1M to 10M EUR ARR in one year, reached by early 2022 (first-party blog; source uses euros, the about $11M is our conversion at 2022 rates). The company has NOT disclosed a fresh figure since; Sacra estimates about $45M ARR for 2023 (up from $18M in 2022, 150% YoY) and Latka lists $44.5M — both third-party estimates, not company-confirmed, shown only as directional. The 400K+ auditors, 125 countries and $1B valuation are first-party from the Feb 2024 raise announcement. Founded 2017 by Ruyter, Alblas and Bakker; none were auditors — the spark was a friend's KPMG spreadsheet. Bootstrapped until a 2022 minority investment from Insight Partners, then the 2024 Series B. Not audited. verified:true for the stated 2022 ARR; current ARR is an outside estimate. We never score you.