Teamleader acquires accounting app Dexxter AND launches Teamleader One for the self-employed

Teamleader, the Ghent-based scale-up and market leader in business software, announced on 22 November 2024, on the Day of the Entrepreneur, the acquisition of Dexxter alongside the launch of its Teamleader One software package. These initiatives aim to further strengthen Teamleader’s support for start-ups and the self-employed.

From today, start-up Dexxter will continue under the wings of Teamleader. Launched in 2021 by former student entrepreneurs Robbe Claessens, Stan De Pauw and Giel Thomas, Dexxter has seen its customer base triple every year. Today, the company has more than 7,000 customers.

‘Dexxter is a fantastic, user-friendly app that includes all the features that sole traders need,’ explains Jeroen De Wit, CEO of Teamleader. ‘In addition, it is no secret that I have a fondness for student entrepreneurs. Teamleader itself was born when I started a company together with two fellow students and became frustrated by the lack of quality administrative tools. Thanks to Dexxter, Teamleader can now support even more entrepreneurs - including hopefully a lot of student entrepreneurs - in their further growth.’

Dexxter's team will continue to operate on its own from Mechelen, with the three founders at the helm. Dexxter will become part of the Teamleader ecosystem.

Belgium is preeminently a country of small businesses: figures from Statbel show that 95.9% of Belgian companies are micro-enterprises. A large proportion of these are self-employed: according to the FPS Economy, our country has more than a million self-employed and self-employed helpers - a number that has been growing steadily over the past decade.

At the same time, start-ups and self-employed professionals in a secondary occupation are finding it increasingly difficult to find an accountant, as more and more accountancy firms are being forced to put a client freeze on their services. With the upcoming obligation of e-invoicing, another huge change is imminent: from 2026, all Belgian companies will have to invoice each other electronically.

The result of this is that lots of self-employed people are looking for a solution. As a market leader in business software, Teamleader is capitalising on this, and now has an offer for every type of entrepreneur. Besides the acquisition of Dexxter, Teamleader is also launching Teamleader One. The functionalities that were previously only available to SMEs and larger companies with Teamleader Focus and Teamleader Orbit, will now become available to startups, freelancers and self-employed entrepreneurs thanks to Teamleader One.

‘For self-employed people, the need for quality invoicing is very high,’ states Jeroen De Wit. ‘With Teamleader, we have built up an enormous amount of knowledge and expertise to support this target group.'

The expansion of the product portfolio fits perfectly with Teamleader's mission to support entrepreneurs with the right digital solutions.