Circula

Expense management platform for travel expenses, corporate cards, and per diem calculations, focused on the DACH market.

📍 Germany 🇩🇪, Berlin

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Product overview

Circula is a Berlin-based expense management platform founded in 2017, focused primarily on the DACH market (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The product handles travel expenses, general expenses, corporate credit cards (Visa, via a partnership with Pliant), and employee benefits such as meal vouchers. Circula's receipt scanner uses OCR to reduce manual data entry by 92% according to the company. The platform includes automatic per diem calculations following German BMF guidelines, mileage tracking, and duplicate detection. Circula is the only expense management tool officially recommended as a DATEV Software Partner, making it a natural fit for companies using DATEV for accounting. The product stores expense documents in a GoBD-certified archive for up to 10 years and includes CO2 tracking for business travel. The company serves over 2,800 customers and 150,000 users, including About You, Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL), and N26. Circula raised €15 million in an extended Series A round in May 2025 and has about 120 employees. The company states that all servers are hosted in Germany. Pricing starts at €10 per user per month with a minimum of 10 licenses. KEY FEATURES: - Receipt scanning with OCR and automatic categorization of expenses - Per diem and mileage calculations following German BMF guidelines - Corporate Visa cards (credit and prepaid) with per-employee controls - DATEV integration as an official Software Partner, plus Personio and TravelPerk - GoBD-certified document archive with 10-year retention