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Storecove
Compliance e-invoicing API · Amsterdam · founded 2014
👤 Dolf Kars (Serial founder — built and sold Videostrip to RTL. In 2014 he bet early on Peppol, years before mandates forced it.)🌐 siteLinkedIn

An early, boring bet on e-invoicing plumbing in 2014. A decade of new mandates turned it into forced, global demand.

Will it work? · our read
Early beats clever. A patient bet on e-invoicing infrastructure that only paid once governments made it mandatory. Early and boring wins — if you can survive the decade-long wait for the law.
01How the money moves
A country mandates e-invoicing
ERPs plug into Storecove's one API
Storecove charges per document + tiers
02The numbers
31+
Countries live
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13
Employees (2026)
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$159K
Total VC raised
crunchbase
Storecove has never published revenue. These are verifiable non-revenue facts; the ARR figure on this card is an estimate. storecove.com
Undisclosed · est. about $2-4M ARR · bootstrapped
03Weight class — CENTStap an axis
ControlEntryNeedTimeScale
Control Low
Peppol access is open; rivals undercut toward $0.20/invoice. Edge is breadth (31 countries), not lock-in.
04The key move
Bet before the law
In 2014, years before the big B2B mandates, Storecove became a certified Peppol access point spanning dozens of countries. When Germany, France and Poland forced e-invoicing, ERPs had a ready API to plug in.
fact
The counter-intuitive move
Early only works if the law actually arrives. Bet on a mandate that never passes and you spend a decade building for demand no one is forced to buy.
our read
05Where the moat is
Why a competitor cannot just clone the API:
Certified Peppol access point in 31+ countriesLive links to national tax-authority systems10 yrs of country-specific compliance edge casesOne API abstracts 30+ invoice formats/networks
06How it diesmedium confidence
Peppol access commoditizes toward near-zero per invoice, while tax giants build e-invoicing in-house (Vertex bought ecosio, Xero bought Tickstar) — leaving little room for a 13-person independent access point. our read
Show evidence · counter
Evidence: Vertex bought e-invoicing firm ecosio for about $180M (2024); Xero bought Peppol access point Tickstar (2021, about $17M). e-invoice.be openly prices Peppol at EUR 0.18/invoice ($0.20).
Counter: Mandates keep multiplying — dozens of countries phasing in through 2027 — and each new one resets the hard compliance work, favoring an incumbent already certified in 31 countries.
07Against rivals
StorecoveVolume-based
Vertex (ecosio)Enterprise
PageroEnterprise
e-invoice.beEUR 0.18/inv ($0.20)
Everyone uses the same Peppol network; rivals split into enterprise tax giants above and price-cutting APIs below. our read
08Who uses it
ERP & accounting softwareSaaS billing platformsCross-border enterprisesSystem integrators / resellersGovernment suppliers
Would it work for you?
If a global compliance mandate is coming, would you rather build the tool everyone needs — or be the boring API they all plug into?
Forced demand arrives on a known date — the law's. Being early and certified is the whole edge. We don't score you — you answer.
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Revenue is EST — Storecove has never disclosed ARR/MRR. The 'about $2-4M' figure is my inference from about 13 staff, bootstrapped status ($159K total raised, per Crunchbase) and enterprise API/volume pricing; treat as unverified. First-party/verified: founders (Dolf Kars, Willem Stemfoort, Michael Riviera), 2014 founding, 31+ country coverage, certified Peppol + DBNAlliance access point, and customer names (Certinia, Vattenfall, Censof) from Storecove's own site. No drama here: this was a patient, early bet on a mandate wave that later arrived — won on timing and persistence, not a single dramatic move. The 'dies' acquisitions (Vertex/ecosio, Xero/Tickstar) and e-invoice.be's EUR 0.18/invoice price are documented and sourced. We never score you.