fiskaly

Overview

fiskaly is a software company headquartered in Vienna, Austria, that provides cloud-based fiscalization, archiving and digital-receipt infrastructure for point-of-sale (POS) and retail-technology providers. Its core product, branded SIGN, replaces the hardware-based signature devices that cash registers traditionally needed with a cloud service delivered through an API. The service digitally signs and records each transaction so that merchants can meet national tax-authority requirements, beginning with Germany's technical security equipment rule (TSE, Technische Sicherheitseinrichtung). According to Austrian founder coverage and Crunchbase, the company was founded in 2019 by Johannes Ferner, Simon Tragatschnig and Patrick Gaubatz, and it has since expanded beyond Germany and Austria into further European markets such as Spain and Italy.

Why this entity matters

Fiscal compliance at the cash register is a niche that most consumers never see, yet it is a hard regulatory requirement for restaurants, retailers and service businesses in a growing number of European countries. fiskaly matters because it shows how a regulatory deadline can create a software category: when Germany prepared new cash-register security rules in 2019, the market was strongly hardware-oriented, and the founders bet on a cloud alternative at a time when, as one profile recounts, no cloud solution had yet been certified. That bet turned a compliance obligation into an API product that POS vendors can embed instead of shipping USB sticks or SD cards.

For the DACH ecosystem, fiskaly is also an example of an Austrian-founded scaleup selling into the larger German market and then consolidating it. Verdane describes the company as a partner to well-known POS providers, naming integrations with orderbird, Lightspeed, SumUp and ready2order, and a March 2025 acquisition of the German specialist DF Deutsche Fiskal gave it a deeper base in German fiscal knowledge. Founders and investors following RegTech, embedded compliance and vertical SaaS use fiskaly as a reference case for building infrastructure that sits between software vendors and tax authorities.

Company or institutional background

fiskaly is based in Vienna and was established in 2019 according to Verdane and diegruender.at. The same sources describe the origin story: the founders recognized a market gap as Germany prepared its cash-register security regulation, saw that the industry was still very hardware-focused, and chose to build a cloud-first alternative. The company's product family centers on digitally signing POS transactions, issuing digital receipts and archiving the underlying records for the national authorities concerned.

Company-reported scale figures differ by date and source and should be read as approximate. A Verdane announcement from March 2025 cites more than 6 billion processed transactions, over 1,000 B2B customers, more than 600,000 points of sale and over 90 employees. A later founder profile on diegruender.at cites more than 1 million connected cash systems across Europe, over 1,600 B2B customers and more than 120 employees from 25 nations, and reports that the company was named EY Scale-up of the Year in 2026. Startuprad.io has not independently verified these figures or the award, which is mentioned here only as a factual report by that outlet.

Verdane, a European growth investor, announced an investment in fiskaly in June 2024 and describes itself as a strategic minority shareholder. In March 2025 fiskaly announced the acquisition of DF Deutsche Fiskal GmbH, previously a subsidiary of GK Software, with the purchase price undisclosed and all employees transferring. Crunchbase and an InfraSec press release further indicate an acquisition of the Swedish company InfraSec; the details are not independently confirmed for this record. Press coverage also reports that David Feichter was appointed Co-CEO to accelerate European growth (Media Key; Tech4Trade).

Role in the ecosystem

fiskaly operates in the RegTech and fiscal-infrastructure layer of European retail technology. It sits between POS and cash-register software vendors on one side and national tax authorities and certification regimes on the other, so that a software vendor can add compliant signing and receipt functions through one integration instead of building country-specific hardware and certification work. The company is therefore closer to infrastructure than to an end-user product: its customers are typically POS providers, not individual shops, and its growth depends on regulatory change across countries as well as on partner integrations.

Within DACH, fiskaly is one of the better-known Austrian B2B software scaleups serving the German market, and its consolidation move in Germany makes it a relevant data point for investors tracking vertical SaaS, compliance automation and cross-border European rollouts.

Selected relationships and affiliations

Publicly reported relationships include the founders Johannes Ferner, Simon Tragatschnig and Patrick Gaubatz; the investor Verdane, a minority shareholder since June 2024; the acquired company DF Deutsche Fiskal GmbH, formerly a GK Software subsidiary, whose CEO is reported to be Martin Breidenbach; and POS integration partners named by Verdane, including orderbird, Lightspeed, SumUp and ready2order. Oliver Abl is identified in a Startuprad.io article as Country Manager Germany. These relationships are listed as reported by third-party outlets and the company's investors, not as a verified current organization chart or cap table.

Startuprad.io relevance

Startuprad.io published a founder-interview-style feature in June 2025 on fiskaly's cloud-first approach to POS regulation, featuring Oliver Abl, Country Manager Germany, and covering the technical architecture and multi-country regulatory navigation. The DACH startup news roundup for May 2025 also referenced a fiskaly acquisition among the month's notable M&A items. fiskaly is part of Startuprad.io's ongoing Scaleup Founder Interview coverage of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Public source context

This record draws on fiskaly's own website https://www.fiskaly.com , Verdane's investment and acquisition announcements, the founder profile on diegruender.at, Crunchbase, brutkasten.com reporting on the Verdane investment, and Media Key and Tech4Trade coverage of the Co-CEO appointment. Customer counts, transaction volumes, headcount and the 2026 award are as reported at the time of publication by those outlets and have not been independently re-verified for this record. Figures differ between sources and dates, and readers should treat them as press- or company-reported rather than confirmed.

Startuprad.io coverage

Transforming Fiscal Compliance: How Fiskaly's Cloud-First Approach Is Reshaping European POS Regulation
Published: 19 June 2025
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/transforming-fiscal-compliance-how-fiskaly-s-cloud-first-approach-is-reshaping-european-pos-regulat

DACH Startup News May 2025: Unicorns, M&A, and VC Surge
Published: 29 May 2025
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: News
https://www.startuprad.io/post/dach-startup-news-may-2025-unicorns-m-a-and-vc-surge

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