easybill enters the next growth phase together with LEA Partners

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  • Over 18,000 customers already rely on easybill
  • easybill supports the self-employed and SMEs with simple and efficient software for day-to-day business operations
  • Dr. Andreas Seifert takes over as CEO, founders remain on board as shareholders and active advisors

LEA Partners („LEA“) has entered into a strategic partnership with easybill, the market leader for electronic invoicing and daily business operations.

easybill improves the day-to-day work of the self-employed and small businesses with its automated, time-saving and legally compliant SaaS solution. The versatile modules – including invoicing, quotations, delivery bills, payment reminders and dunning notices – automate essential business processes in a legally compliant manner. In addition, easybill supports its customers with intuitive warehouse management and preparatory accounting. Over 18,000 companies, including many online retailers, self-employed people, tradespeople, tax consultants and more, already rely on the efficient and user-friendly solution.

After more than a decade of steady growth, Dr. Andreas Seifert takes over the management from the founders as the new CEO: “Our goal is to accelerate easybill’s growth and innovation in order to expand our leading position in the B2B sector with state-of-the-art SaaS solutions. One focus is on providing a particularly user-friendly, EU-compliant solution for mandatory electronic invoicing by companies”.

The founders of easybill add: “In our discussions, LEA impressed us with their entrepreneurial mindset and experience in scaling bootstrapped businesses. Andreas, as a serial entrepreneur and experienced CEO, is the ideal person to take easybill to the next level on our journey to build leading SaaS solutions for SMEs in Europe.”

Kurt Weise from LEA emphasizes: “easybill is a great company with a high-quality and easy-to-use SaaS product for SMEs in the DACH region. We were immediately impressed by the clear customer benefit in automating invoices and related business processes. We are very much looking forward to supporting the easybill team in their planned multidimensional growth.”

About easybill

Founded in 2007, easybill is the market leader in electronic invoicing and daily business operations with more than 18,000 customers. easybill has established itself as the leading, user-friendly SaaS solution for the self-employed, small businesses and e-commerce merchants to automate and optimize their sales process, reduce payment collection time and ensure regulatory compliance. One of easybill’s strengths is its free, personalized customer support by phone.

About LEA Partners

As an entrepreneurial equity partner, LEA Partners supports founders and management teams at various stages of development in their growth and in achieving a leading market position. With a team of 30+ in Karlsruhe, one of Europe’s largest technology clusters, LEA has managed investments in more than 70 technology companies since 2002. More at www.leapartners.de.