Startup
Pigment
Enterprise planning platform for finance, sales and HR teams, built in Paris by a former Criteo CTO and a former Index Ventures investor, now a unicorn with about $100m in recurring revenue and most of its sales in North America.
| Founded | 2019, Paris |
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| Founders | Eléonore Crespo (co-CEO, formerly Google and Index Ventures), Romain Niccoli (co-CEO, co-founder and former CTO of Criteo) |
| Stage | Series D |
| Total funding | About $397m across 5 rounds |
| Last round | Series D, $145m, April 2024, led by ICONIQ Growth. Valuation $1bn. ↗ |
| Earlier rounds | Series C $88m, 2023; Series B $138m across two closes, 2021 and 2022; Series A $25.9m, 2020 |
| What it does | Connected planning: financial budgeting and forecasting, sales capacity and territory planning, workforce planning and scenario modelling, with AI agents that build and explain plans |
| Traction | Hundreds of enterprise customers including Snowflake, Unilever, Siemens and DPD; about $100m ARR in 2026; roughly 690 staff; the majority of revenue now from North America |
| Pricing | Not published; enterprise contracts |
| Markets | Europe, North America |
| Peers | Anaplan, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning, Abacum, Vena Solutions |
Why it matters
Pigment reached a $1 billion valuation within five years and about $100 million in recurring revenue, making it Europe’s most successful challenger to Anaplan. That most of its revenue now comes from North America shows a Paris planning company winning US enterprise finance teams on their home ground.
Updated September 2026.
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