Orderbird

Overview

Orderbird is a Berlin-founded software company that sells cloud-based point-of-sale systems with integrated payment acceptance to independent restaurants, cafes, bars and similar hospitality businesses. According to the 2022 announcement by Nexi Group, the company was founded in 2011 in Berlin, originally around what it describes as Germany's first iPad-based POS system, and serves independent restaurateurs and small businesses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. The EU-Startups directory lists four founders - Jakob Schreyer, Bastian Schmidtke, Artur Hasselbach and Patrick Brienen - and describes the product as an iPad-based POS for restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs and ice cream shops. This record treats the founder list as a single-source claim that has not been independently re-verified.

In May 2022 Orderbird became a wholly owned part of the Nexi Group, one of Europe's large payments companies, through its Nets merchant-services business. The transaction is therefore the defining event in the company's public history, and it is why this record carries the status Acquired rather than a venture-backed independent status.

Why this entity matters

Orderbird is a compact example of how a DACH hospitality-software startup moved from an app-first product into a payments-led business and ended in a strategic sale to a pan-European payments group. For founders and investors following DACH software-plus-payments models, the company illustrates the logic behind embedding payment processing in vertical software: the software relationship with the restaurant gives the owner a recurring revenue base, while payments add transaction-linked income. The Nexi announcement itself frames the purchase as an expansion of software-payment capabilities and of cloud-based POS with integrated payments for independent restaurants and neighbourhood businesses across the DACH region and beyond.

The company also sits inside a regulatory story that matters in Germany. Point-of-sale providers have had to comply with fiscal-recording rules for transactions, and Startuprad.io's interview with Fiskaly names Orderbird among the POS providers that rely on a cloud fiscalisation partner instead of dedicated hardware.

Company or institutional background

Public sources describe Orderbird's early product as an iPad-based POS app for restaurants and bars, with the EU-Startups directory reporting more than 43,000 app downloads and more than 6,500 customers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland; these are dated figures from the directory entry and are not current. The same directory reports a USD 10 million Series B round in 2014 and a EUR 20 million financing in 2016. Those funding figures rest on a single directory source in this record and are not independently verified.

By the time of the 2022 sale the company reported more than 120 employees. A trade-press report on the acquisition named Mark Schoen as CEO and Jakob Schreyer as founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and described Orderbird as a provider of cloud-based POS systems with integrated payments for the hospitality industry across Europe. Nexi's announcement states that Nets had already increased its strategic investment in late 2021 before taking full ownership, and that the total cash outlay, including previous share purchases, was approximately EUR 100 million. Nexi's release does not specify formal closing conditions.

Role in the ecosystem

Orderbird sits in the vertical-SaaS-plus-payments segment of the DACH fintech and hospitality-technology landscape, alongside other POS and register providers that serve small independent venues. Its customer base of independent restaurateurs differs from the large chain customers that dominate enterprise POS, which makes the segment sensitive to both software usability and payment pricing. The Fiskaly interview in Startuprad.io's archive lists SumUp, Orderbird and Ready2Order together as examples of POS providers serving the fiscal-compliance market, and the Fiskaly country manager describes Orderbird as an early and important customer of that service; the transcript renders the name inconsistently, so that attribution is treated here as the most plausible reading rather than a certainty.

Selected relationships and affiliations

Acquirer: Nexi Group, through its Nets merchant-services business, which acquired 100 percent of Orderbird; announced 12 May 2022. Named management at the time of the deal: Mark Schoen (CEO) and Jakob Schreyer (founder and Chief Strategy Officer). Technology and compliance relationship: Fiskaly, the cloud fiscalisation provider, names Orderbird among its POS-provider customers in Startuprad.io's interview. No investor relationships beyond the Nets and Nexi transaction are asserted here, because round-level investor names were not corroborated by a second source.

Startuprad.io relevance

Startuprad.io has not run a dedicated Orderbird interview or profile. The company appears in two pieces: the Fiskaly founder-side interview, in which Orderbird is cited as a customer and a reference point for the POS market, and the May 2022 edition of the monthly DACH startup news roundup, which carries a headline about the sale of the hospitality startup Orderbird to new Italian owners for about EUR 100 million. Coverage is therefore incidental rather than central, and this record is hedged accordingly; it is below the three-item coverage target.

Public source context

Sources reviewed for this record include the Nexi Group press release of 12 May 2022 https://www.nexigroup.com/content/dam/corp/downloads/investors/financial-press-releases/2022/2022-05-12-pr-Orderbird.pdf , the EU-Startups directory entry https://www.eu-startups.com/directory/orderbird/ , a hotelier.de report on the acquisition, and the two Startuprad.io items listed below. Facts that rest on one source, including the founder list and the 2014 and 2016 funding figures, are flagged as not independently verified. Orderbird's current operating status and brand structure after integration into Nexi were not verified for this record.

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

This Month in German, Swiss, and Austrian (GSA) Startups — May 2022
Published: 15 March 2026
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: News
https://www.startuprad.io/post/this-month-in-german-swiss-and-austrian-gsa-startups-may-2022

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