Tab

What Tab does

Tab Technology AB is a Stockholm-based fintech founded in 2024 that builds API-first infrastructure for real-time digital receipts across the Nordic financial ecosystem. The company operates two tightly integrated products: an API platform that connects card issuers, expense management systems (EMS), and ERP systems with a merchant network of 12,000+ retail locations, and "Smart Receipts," a real-time digital receipt and transaction enrichment service that captures line-item transaction data directly at the point of sale and pushes it to integrated financial platforms without requiring any action from the consumer.

Revenue is generated through API/transaction fees for receipt and transaction-enrichment data delivery, alongside licensing/integration fees from partnerships with card issuers, EMS providers, and ERP platforms. Go-to-market is API-first B2B, with sales driven by direct demo engagement (Calendly) and integration partnerships; the company states customers typically go live within weeks. Named platform partners include SEB Eurocard, AirPlus, Juni, and Mynt, covering both incumbent Nordic card issuers and challenger fintechs.

The company was acquired by Kivra on April 13, 2026, combining Tab's receipt infrastructure with Kivra's distribution platform of more than 6 million Swedish users. Tab operates with a small team of 1-10 employees under CEO Calle Mellbin and CTO Hector Zarate Rea, and was capitalized with a single disclosed seed round of approximately $229,814 from Icebreaker.vc in March 2024.

Name

Tab

Legal name

Tab Technology AB

Website

https://tab.technology

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tab Technology is a Stockholm-based fintech providing API-first infrastructure for real-time digital receipts. Its Smart Receipts platform connects card issuers, EMS, and ERP systems with 12,000+ Nordic merchants to automate transaction capture and expense management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial API Infrastructure

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (52232), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Employee Expense Capture & Reimbursement (T&E) (THACADAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Bill Pay, Invoicing & Payables Platforms (BPAMAFAF)

Keywords

• Digital receipts API
• Transaction enrichment
• Expense management infrastructure
• Smart receipts platform
• Fintech API integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. API/Transaction Fees: Revenue generated from API usage connecting merchants with financial platforms. Transaction data processing fees for digital receipt delivery.
2. Partnership Integrations: Licensing/integration fees from partnerships with financial platforms including card issuers, EMS, and ERP systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Tab provides an API-first infrastructure for real-time digital receipts (Smart Receipts) that connects card issuers, Expense Management Systems (EMS), and ERP platforms with a network of 12,000+ merchants across the Nordics. Its APIs capture transaction data — including line items, totals, currency, and timestamps — directly from merchant Point of Sale systems and deliver enriched digital receipts to financial platforms in real time, enabling near-autonomous expense management. The solution is designed for fast integration, with customers typically going live within weeks.

Product overview

Tab Technology offers a unified platform composed of two core elements: its API-first infrastructure and the Smart Receipts product. The API Platform serves as the connective layer that links card issuers, Expense Management Systems (EMS), and ERP systems with a merchant network covering 12,000+ merchants. Smart Receipts is the primary end-user-facing product — a real-time digital receipt and transaction enrichment service that captures transaction data directly from merchants and POS systems and delivers it instantly to financial platforms, enabling near-autonomous expense management. The two products are tightly integrated, with the API Platform powering the Smart Receipts delivery and data enrichment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Smart Receipts Real-time digital receipts and transaction enrichment product capturing receipt data from 12,000+ merchants and delivering enriched digital receipts (line items, totals, currency, timestamps) instantly to financial platforms for automated expense management. Targeted at banks, card issuers, EMS, and ERP systems embedding receipt functionality into their applications.
• API Platform API-first infrastructure platform connecting card issuers, EMS (Expense Management Systems), and ERP systems with 12,000+ merchants. Built for high-volume, real-time delivery, enterprise-grade reliability at scale, and a developer-friendly experience; customers typically go live within weeks.

Quantifiable outcome

• Customers typically go live within weeks, not months
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• MyntcoreTechnology or Integration · 9 October 2025Smart Receipts integration live with Mynt as of October 2025, enabling digital receipt delivery through Mynt's platform.
• JunicoreTechnology or Integration · 8 October 2025Swedish fintech Juni offers Smart Receipts to all its customers through integration with Tab's API.
• AirPluscoreTechnology or Integration · 8 September 2025Leading corporate card provider in the Nordics now offers Smart Receipts to AirPlus Cardholders at 10,000+ merchant locations in Sweden, Denmark & Norway.
• SEB EurocardcoreTechnology or Integration · 25 May 2025SEB Eurocard receipts now live through Tab's Smart Receipts integration, serving corporate card customers.
• 12,000+ MerchantscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork of merchants integrated directly with Tab's Smart Receipts API. Direct POS integrations enable real-time receipt capture across retail locations.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• ReceiptHero: ReceiptHero is the closest Nordic direct competitor, offering electronic receipt infrastructure that connects merchants to banks and accounting platforms across Sweden and the Nordics. It competes head-to-head with Tab for the same card-issuer and EMS integrations.
• Veryfi: Veryfi provides a receipt and document OCR API used by developers to extract structured line-item data from purchases. It is a direct technology competitor in the receipt-data enrichment layer feeding expense management platforms.

Emerging players

• Pleo: Pleo is a Copenhagen-based corporate card and expense management platform that pulls transaction data into automated expense flows for SMBs. It overlaps with Tab's downstream EMS use case and represents both a potential customer and a competing route to automated expense capture.
• Spendee: Spendee is a consumer expense tracking app that links to bank accounts and cards to automatically categorize spending. It overlaps with the consumer-facing 'transaction clarity' benefit of Smart Receipts in personal finance.
• Spendity: Spendity is a Barcelona-based receipt automation and expense management platform for SMEs, offering automated receipt capture similar to Tab's Smart Receipts. It competes for the same EMS customer category but focuses on Southern Europe.

Broad incumbents

• Dext (formerly Receipt Bank): Dext is a global receipt and bookkeeping automation platform widely used by accountants and small businesses. It addresses the same 'capture receipts without manual entry' problem as Tab's Smart Receipts but primarily through OCR-based upload rather than direct POS integrations.
• Expensify: Expensify is a public, US-headquartered expense management platform whose SmartScan technology automates receipt capture for corporate expense workflows. It competes with Tab at the EMS layer and is a likely downstream user of receipt-enrichment APIs.
• Emburse (Abacus): Emburse offers enterprise expense management solutions including the Abacus product, which automates corporate expense reporting and receipt capture. It overlaps with Tab's EMS customer segment as both a competitor and a potential integration partner.
• Plaid: Plaid is the dominant global financial data connectivity platform linking bank accounts to fintech apps. It operates one layer above Tab at the account/transaction aggregation tier and represents both an adjacent infrastructure peer and a potential longer-term competitor for transactional data clarity.

Regional players

• Tink: Tink (acquired by Visa) is a European open banking platform providing bank transaction data to fintechs across the Nordics and wider EU. It addresses a similar 'rich transaction data to apps' problem and is highly relevant as a pan-European open banking alternative to merchant-direct integrations.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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