Ante Spittler

Overview

Ante Spittler is co-founder and CEO of Moss, a Berlin-based FinTech providing an integrated finance-automation platform for European small and medium-sized enterprises. He runs a category leader in DACH SME FinTech with more than 300,000 corporate cards issued, more than €5 billion in annual payment volume, and approximately $180 million raised from investors including Cherry Ventures and Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
Why this entity matters

Spittler illustrates a specific pattern in the European FinTech founding cohort: the transition from investor to operator, then from operator to regulated-FinTech CEO. His public reflections on that transition — the shift in responsibility framing, the need for multivariate decision-making, and the operational cost of running a regulated financial-services company — are frequently cited in DACH founder-education content.
Career, company, or institutional background

Spittler co-founded Moss in Berlin and serves as its CEO. Prior to founding Moss, he worked in investing before moving to the operating side of European FinTech. In the July 2025 Startuprad.io Friday Entrepreneur interview he described how the difficulty of closing books and running audits in a prior operational role sparked his focus on finance automation for SMEs.
Role in the DACH FinTech ecosystem

As CEO of Moss, Spittler is one of the visible operator voices in Berlin's FinTech scene. He is frequently referenced in DACH FinTech coverage on category building, AI-driven finance operations, and the specific challenges of scaling a regulated financial-services company across fragmented European jurisdictions.
Selected relationships and affiliations

Co-founder and CEO of Moss. Moss investors he works closely with include Cherry Ventures and Valar Ventures (the fund of Peter Thiel).
Startuprad.io relevance

Ante Spittler is the subject of a Startuprad.io Friday Entrepreneur series interview on finance automation, category building in European SME FinTech, and the investor-to-operator-to-regulated-FinTech-CEO transition. The interview is part of Startuprad.io's DACH FinTech coverage cluster.
Public source context

Public information about Ante Spittler is drawn from the Startuprad.io Friday Entrepreneur interview (July 2025), the Moss corporate website (getmoss.com), and his LinkedIn profile.

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