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Repodo bets AI-native audit can unseat manual grind: Lunar founders raise €8.2M
Ex-Lunar CEO, CFO and CPO plus an auditor launch Repodo, Denmark's first AI-native audit firm for SMBs, with an €8.2M pre-seed.
Repodo
What the business is
Repodo is an AI-native authorised audit firm in Copenhagen: an operating system for financial audit that automates data collection, reconciliations, documentation and transaction analysis for statutory audits of small and medium-sized businesses, with qualified auditors keeping professional judgment and final sign-off.
Starting capital：€8.2 million pre-seed (2026), led by Hedosophia and Seed Capital with other prominent investors
How it started
Ken Villum Klausen, who stood down as CEO of Danish neobank Lunar earlier in 2026, joined co-founders Peter Andreasen (Lunar's former CFO), Joachim Strøjer Hansen (former CPO) and professional auditor Anders Houmann to start Repodo in Copenhagen. Klausen's argument: audit innovation so far made existing firms more efficient; nobody had rebuilt the audit operating model itself for AI.
What happened
Repodo raised an €8.2M pre-seed led by Hedosophia and Seed Capital — investors that backed Lunar — with 'prominent investors' also taking part; per Sifted, it is Denmark's largest pre-seed to date. The money goes toward the technology platform, hiring and the Danish launch, with expansion across Europe planned.
No ending yet — it is still running.
Background
Repodo is a Copenhagen-based, AI-native authorised audit firm founded by Ken Villum Klausen, former CEO of Danish neobank Lunar; Peter Andreasen, its former CFO; Joachim Strøjer Hansen, its former CPO; and Anders Houmann, a professional auditor. The company embeds AI in its technology and operating model from day one, automating data collection, reconciliations, documentation and transaction analysis for statutory audits of small and medium-sized businesses, while qualified auditors keep professional judgment, oversight and final sign-off.
Klausen stepped down as Lunar's CEO earlier in 2026. His premise is that audit innovation to date mostly made existing firms and workflows more efficient; Repodo instead rebuilds the audit operating model itself. The founders raised an €8.2M pre-seed led by Hedosophia and Seed Capital — backers of Lunar — with other prominent investors joining; Sifted calls it Denmark's largest pre-seed to date. Repodo puts the global audit market at around €80B and is launching in Denmark first, with European expansion planned.
The company is a bet that small and medium businesses — the segment big firms serve least efficiently — will accept an AI-native authorised auditor as long as humans stay responsible for judgment and the signature. As of early September 2026 the public record covers the founding team, the round and the product direction; the firm is hiring and building its platform, with no customers or audit results published yet.
What has to be true
- Lunar's founding operators lived the gap first-hand: they raised over €500M building a fintech while the audit work around them stayed manual, so the pain they attack is not hypothetical.
- Denmark's largest pre-seed to date (per Sifted) shows investors are willing to fund a founder-led rebuild of a category rather than another AI feature bolted onto an existing firm.
- SMB statutory audits are the long tail the Big Four under-serve, and repetitive collection, reconciliation and documentation dominate the hours there — exactly what the AI-native model automates.
- Keeping professional judgment and final sign-off with human auditors answers the trust objection directly instead of promising to replace the profession.
What can be applied
Repeat founders carry more than money — Lunar's backers and credibility followed — but the bet rests on execution: an AI-native audit firm has to earn auditors' and clients' trust.
Aftermath
As of September 2, 2026, Repodo has just launched in Copenhagen and is using its €8.2M pre-seed to finish its platform, hire and enter the Danish market first, with plans to expand across Europe. The firm describes itself as an authorised AI-native audit company for statutory audits of SMBs and estimates the global audit market at around €80B. It is still in its earliest phase — no customers, audits or results are public yet — so the open question is whether SMBs and their auditors will accept a model where machines do the repetitive processing and humans keep the judgement.
Sources
- Lunar co-founders launch AI audit startup Repodo, raising over €8M
- Lunar founders raise €8.2m to launch AI-native audit startup Repodo
- Copenhagen AI-native audit startup Repodo raises €8.2M pre-seed to launch in Denmark
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