Visma

Last week, our annual MD Summit brought together the leaders of Visma's companies for two days of knowledge sharing, collaboration, and strategy.

This is where we sharpen each other. Challenge each other. Go home better. 🚀

Startup mindset and corporate muscle. Global scale and local soul.

That's us.

True innovation requires unique minds – and complex problem-solving can't happen if people allocate cognitive energy toward hiding who they are. For us, psychological safety is simply the baseline for collaboration and driving real value.

As one of our core values, we treat inclusiveness as an operational strength:

🚀 To move fast and think big, an open mindset isn't optional. Local teams with global perspectives ensure our software works for everyone.

📚 As perpetual students always looking for better outcomes, breaking down biases is how we keep improving.

🌱 We scale, but never at the expense of doing things the right way. Sustained growth relies on an inclusive culture where every individual is supported.

Pride connects all of us. This month and every month, we stand behind the right to be exactly who you are. 🌈

From 2-person finance team to CFO of a €2.8B software network.

Stian Grindheim has been building Visma's finance function from the inside for over a decade, and his biggest lesson wasn't about numbers. It was about speed.

"Facts and data are like produce. They're best when fresh."

This interview is worth reading if you care about how high-growth software companies allocate capital, and how AI is changing what that looks like.

🌐What does the future of AI-native product development actually look like?

Last week in Oslo, we brought together the people building it. The Visma AI Engineering Pioneers Summit gathered 45 of our frontrunners — engineers, CTOs, and AI enthusiasts from companies across Europe and Latin America.

Two days. One shared mission: learn from the best, so the best can get even better. Scaling together.

That's the power of the Visma network. When pioneers from across the continents come together to openly share real use cases, hard-won lessons, and honest conversations about what building with AI actually looks like today, the whole group moves faster.
The pace of change isn't slowing down. The leaders who will define the next decade aren't the biggest; they're the fastest, the most local, and the most connected.
That's Visma. 170 companies. One group. Decentralised by design, powerful by nature. Learning and scaling together.
We're proud of the pioneers across our companies who are already showing the way. 🚀

🇧🇷 Expanding in Brazil

We are excited to welcome two leading Brazilian SaaS providers, Dootax and Pag Útil.

As Brazil enters a landmark tax reform period, this move reinforces our commitment to providing mission-critical software that simplifies complexity for SMBs. Following our acquisitions of Conta Azul and MaisMei, we are proud to offer a truly differentiated ecosystem in the Brazilian market.

A warm welcome to our new colleagues!
Together, we are shaping the future of digital business in Latin America.

🛡️ Can security actually be a growth engine for your company?

It's World Password Day, where most conversations are about individual habits.

But for Joakim Tauren, CISO for Visma’s business segment, the real conversation is about organisational resilience.

He explains how joining Visma changes the math by providing a security team that scales with your risk. It’s a global machinery that protects your company while you sleep.

The result? Visma companies are winning larger contracts because they can now prove a level of security maturity that was previously impossible.

👇 Discover how joining Visma turns a defensive necessity into a massive market advantage.

💡 What happens when product teams stop solving the same problems alone?
Penneo went 10× faster from idea to prototype within three months of joining Visma. 500 practitioners upskilled in one quarter.

Amanda Lundius, Director of Product Discovery, explains how 👇

“Do you hear me? Can you see me?”

This simple question opened AO(Accounting Offices) Shapers, an internal Visma conference in Ghent last week, and ended up capturing one of the biggest shifts happening in the accounting industry.

Across three days, together with Visma companies like Silverfin, Nmbrs, e-conomic and Holded, one thing became clear:

👉 The challenge isn’t AI itself. It’s time, trust, and how well it fits into real workflows

The biggest risk isn’t sudden disruption, but gradually becoming less relevant, especially for smaller accounting offices, where AI must be built in and ready from day one.

The real question goes both ways: are we listening, and are we building accordingly?