Qonto launches partnerships with Norman and RAKETENSTART 🚀

2016-founded Qonto (Si apre in una nuova finestra) – a neo-business bank, which is active in eight european markets – partners up with Norman (Si apre in una nuova finestra) and RAKETENSTART (Si apre in una nuova finestra), to expand the benefits for its German users.

Norman (Si apre in una nuova finestra) offers a do-it-yourself bookkeeping, business tax and personal tax solution in Germany. Next to that, Norman just launched Norman Advisory (see below for details) and also offers an easy form for new businesses to register with the tax authorities to get their tax number. Exactly this form is also used as part of the cooperation with Qonto.

RAKETENSTART (Si apre in una nuova finestra), officially founded in 2020 by Madeleine Heuts (Si apre in una nuova finestra), basically offers a digital legal department for German businesses with the focus on an easy and digital solution for business incorporations. Through the partnership, Qonto's users can benefit from fast incorporations of their businesses with additional benefits.

While these partnerships are not completely seamless embedded solutions, they hint at the more tighter integrations that are possible in the future to provide all-in-one solutions across banking, legal and tax for German businesses.

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