Expensya's team in their office in Cogite coworking space, Tunis. (Image via Expensyia)

On Monday, almost a year after their launch, Tunisian startup Expensya has raised a seed round from local and French business angels, and France’s public investment bank Bpifrance.

While the amount is confidential, Expensya founder Karim Jouini told Wamda the ticket was of an average size for a seed round in France (European tech publication Tech.eu labels European seed rounds as under the €500,000 (US$560,000) mark).

The startup, which digitizes company expenses, offers companies and accounting firms cloud, web, and mobile software to report expenses.

When they launched a year ago, their service was simple: users would take a pictures of receipt and Expensya would process it and add it to a dashboard accessible by the person in charge of accounting.

The services now processes electronic invoices (emails and pdfs), VAT and mileage expenses. Over all, Jouini told Wamda they had improved the recognition technologies and the process. They’ve also made improvements to help the people in charge of accounting manage all the information. They’ve added features including analytics, a multi-level approbation system, and integration with SME’s information systems.

This first year proved there is a market-fit. “Employees are ready to pay [for the service] themselves, that’s how much they hate that task,” he told Wamda. Still, selling, especially a cloud service, was the difficult part of growing the service. They’re now relying on accounting and resellers to evangelize SMEs.