The French AI startup gunning for Workday, Oracle, and SAP | Fortune

"Every single CEO or CFO on this planet wants to make fast decisions to react to this macroeconomic environment. They cannot wait months to make decisions. Pigment's core product aggregates business data into a single platform and lets teams run scenario models-different oil price paths, shifting tariff regimes-without blowing up fragile Excel sheets or waiting weeks for a specialist to reconfigure a model."

"Fortune has exclusively learned Pigment is approaching $100 million in ARR, having doubled ARR for a third consecutive year. The company has grown its customer base 74%, with leaders like Uber, Unilever, Anthropic, Siemens and more using Pigment, and 57% of new revenue coming from enterprise customers. More than half of Pigment's new customers in 2025 migrated from SaaS giants."

"Crespo's latest bet is what she calls Pigment's biggest leap yet: a "Modeler Agent." Users describe what they want in natural language, and the agent generates governed, production-ready applications on top of Pigment's data engine. Early customers say build times have collapsed."

Pigment is a rapidly growing European AI software company founded in 2019 by Éleonore Crespo and Romain Niccoli to replace spreadsheets and legacy planning tools in large enterprises. The platform unifies data and decision-making across finance, sales, HR, and supply chain functions, enabling executives to make faster decisions in volatile macroeconomic conditions. Pigment has doubled ARR for three consecutive years and now serves major customers including Uber, Unilever, Anthropic, and Siemens. The company's latest innovation is a Modeler Agent that uses natural language to generate production-ready applications, significantly reducing build times. Crespo attributes the company's success to a French-inspired "Never Settle" ethos that drives continuous improvement and aggressive market expansion.

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