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After helping over 1,000 startups with their corporate taxes we are excited to bring you [**TaxPlan**](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan).\n\n![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/61d7d4dc76fa4b4793492a4f/6565864e5e7b3f872f4a87ee_7shots_so.png)\n\nThis is the most common question we get from founders:\n\n**\"Do I Need to File Taxes for My Startup?\"**\n\nYes. Once your startup is incorporated and funded, filing taxes is crucial. Not only does this meet legal obligations and fulfill your fiduciary duty to investors, but it's also essential for leveraging benefits like R&D tax credits. Failing to file on time can mean missing out on up to $500k in tax credits. Corporate tax is **NOT** handled by your payroll system (they handle payroll tax).\n\n[**TaxPlan**](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan) is the simplest way to know **where, when, and how much** your startup owes in corporate taxes -- including your [**Section 174**](https://www.tryfondo.com/blog/section-174) adjustment. Plus, how much in [**R&D Tax Credits**](https://www.tryfondo.com/guides/a-startups-guide-to-tax-credits) you can get back from the IRS (up to $500k).\n\n**It takes <2 minutes to get your FREE TaxPlan — no accounting set up required:**[ **Get your startup’s FREE TaxPlan →**](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan)\n\n### **Here is what you get with TaxPlan:**\n\n### **Corporate Tax Summary**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/2e9976a1-e14c-4fd6-8512-49025b0f08b7)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/ca8a8fd9-fc42-4cd6-b824-49c4406f098e)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/a8a4240c-a5a7-4701-bc4a-ab0c045e6696)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/24415557-8b5d-4756-ae3e-6f41776a6e39)\n\n### **Corporate Tax Nexus Summary**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/c57f57ba-2c01-4ac1-b697-46eecacd62ff)\n\n### **International Activity Summary**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/fc233df6-b4ee-41f7-9201-a96495b8ccf4)\n\n### **Year End Checklist**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/861d6005-a477-44e3-be7f-38ad213e8f4e)\n\n### **How Fondo Can Help**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=77031&key=user_uploads/51966/2520bf86-b585-4e71-88d8-4a8fa825a79a)\n\n**It takes <2 mins to get your FREE TaxPlan — no accounting set up required:** [**Get your startup’s FREE TaxPlan →**](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan)\n\n### **3 easy steps**\n\n1. [Create account](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan)\n2. Select “Yes” to TaxPlan (FREE)\n3. Receive TaxPlan via email\n\nThank you and I hope you’ll try us out!\n\nDavid\n\nCEO & Founder @ Fondo (W18)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K2R-fondo-taxplan-get-your-startup-taxes-done-right", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2023-12-19T20:21:23.352Z" }, { "id": 69495, "title": "✅ Fondo - $1 Delaware Franchise Tax (due in 9 days)", "tagline": "Let Fondo file your Delaware Franchise Tax for $1", "body": "Hi everyone 👋,\n\nDavid here, former accountant and founder/CEO of Fondo. We’ve helped 1,000+ founders file their Delaware Franchise tax since launching in 2020.\n\nWe’d love to handle this for you for **$1**. \n\n# **Problem**\n\nAll Delaware Corporations are legally required to file Delaware Franchise Tax each year (beginning with their year of incorporation)\n\n• Deadline: 3/1/23 (in 9 days)\n\n• Tax Owed: $450+\n\n• Penalties: $200 +1.5%/mo of unpaid balance\n\nWhat often what trips founders up is that Delaware will notify you that you owe $50k+. This is because there are two methods to calculate the total franchise tax owed: the **Authorized Shares Method** and **Assumed Par Value Capital Method**. Delaware gives startups the flexibility to use the method that results in the lessor tax. This gets more complicated once you’ve raised a priced round. Fondo will make sure to file based on the lowest tax method legally possible, generally **Assumed Par Value Capital Method.**\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/00d7138c-e164-4837-b17a-e57cb37420ef.png?auto=compress&codec=mozjpeg&cs=strip&auto=format&fit=max)\n\n# **Solution**\n\nLet Fondo prepare and file your Delaware Annual Franchise Tax Report for **$1:** [**tryfondo.com/1**](http://tryfondo.com/1)\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/a3edb57f-b13b-4190-a5bb-566fb85fa437.png?auto=compress&codec=mozjpeg&cs=strip&auto=format&fit=max)\n\n# **🤝 Launch YC Deal**\n\n### Let Fondo prepare and file your Delaware Annual Franchise Tax Report for $1: [tryfondo.com/1](http://tryfondo.com/1)\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/2af8a957-a517-4816-a101-2ebdc3e11358.png?auto=compress&codec=mozjpeg&cs=strip&auto=format&fit=max)\n\n# **FAQ**\n\nHere is a comprehensive guide that answers all of the most common questions founders have about Delaware Franchise Tax: \n\n**Please note:** there is no additional purchase necessary, we will prepare & file for you for **$1**. 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This is great news for startups and we’d love to help you get the maximum money back from the IRS.\n\n### 💰 **Automatically get cash back from the IRS (average startup gets $21,000)**\n\nToday, we are publicly launching [Fondo Tax Credits](https://tryfondo.com/credits) to help startups get cash back from the IRS.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65591&key=user_uploads/51966/d7c2588f-c394-4e86-8baf-ae15c253c2ae)\n\nThank you to [@Career Karma](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/career-karma), [@Explo,](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/explo) [@PostHog](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/posthog), [@Tydo](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polyops), & [@Bottomless](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bottomless) being our first 5 Tax Credit customers.\n\n### **Does my startup qualify?**\n\nMost likely, yes! Startups with less than $5M in gross receipts will generally qualify. Because of the broad definition for qualified activities, startups from almost every industry have claimed R&D tax credits. If you have employees or contractors in the United States who spend any time developing new or improved products, processes, software, algorithms, formulas, or inventions, then you likely qualify for the R&D tax credit. [See if your startup qualifies →](https://tryfondo.com/credits-check)\n\n### **How much does my startup qualify for?**\n\nThe amount of money you can get back is based on your company's R&D expenses (founder/employee/contractor payroll) and can be up to $500k per year. [See how much you can get back with our Tax Credit Calculator →](https://tryfondo.com/credits-check)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65591&key=user_uploads/51966/73b455e4-aa8b-4ad6-8b75-ce55a8873d1f)\n\n### **How do I claim the credit?**\n\nFondo handles all of this for you — the credit is claimed by doing an R&D Credit study, filing additional forms with your corporate tax returns, and updating your payroll system. [Get started here →](https://tryfondo.com/credits)\n\n### **⚠️ Upcoming Deadline**\n\nThe deadline to claim this credit for 2021 is 10/17/22 (if you filed an extension), otherwise you can claim the credit for 2022.\n\n### 🤝 **DEAL: 25% OFF Tax Credits**\n\n_Sign up by 8/25/22 to use this deal._ You only pay Fondo if we can help you get money back. Typically, our fees will not exceed 20% of the amount we can help you get back. This deal will cap the amount you pay Fondo at 15%.\n\n[👉 Sign up here →](https://tryfondo.com/credits)\n\n### **What do you get?**\n\nThe benefits of claiming your tax credits with Fondo is that we can handle everything you need to get it done -- end-to-end. Most of our competitors will only do the R&D study and you still need to find someone else to (1) file your tax returns with the attached R&D credit forms, (2) update your payroll system, and (3) do your bookkeeping.\n\n* ✅ Cash back from the IRS (Fondo will complete the R&D Credit Study, prepare Tax Forms, and make required updates to your payroll system)\n* ☑️ Optional Add-on: [TaxPass](https://tryfondo.com/taxpass) - Delaware + Federal/State Corporate Income Taxes Filed (timely filings that you need to claim the credit)\n* ☑️ Optional Add-on: [Bookkeeping](https://tryfondo.com/bookkeeping) (get financial statements that you need to file your tax returns)\n\n### **We’d love to support you!**\n\nThank you!\n\nDavid", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H3v-fondo-automatically-get-cash-back-from-the-irs-average-startup-gets-21-000", "votes": 69, "created_at": "2022-08-24T01:37:51.984Z" } ] }, { "id": 1752, "name": "Simetrik", "slug": "simetrik", "former_names": [ "Ropeo", "WeExpenses" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ab2e29daec9e4efba8cc8dc5764edc5ad41ae1ee.png", "website": "https://simetrik.com", "all_locations": "Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Remote", "long_description": "No code enterprise SaaS for financial control automation. 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Prior to Bend, Thomas and I worked at [Abacus](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/572), where I was one of the co-founders — our background is in fintech, and our goal is to layer in climate insights on top of your financial stack.\n\nWe’d love it if you tried Bend out!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IUy-bend-a-corporate-card-built-for-climate-friendly-businesses-100-to-try-it", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2023-04-21T13:57:22.372Z" }, { "id": 64027, "title": "Bend ⚡ 1-click Carbon Accounting", "tagline": "Bend helps you close sales as a sustainable business", "body": "At Bend, we help companies develop an **affordable**, **automated**, and **credible** path to net zero using your spend data. And we help fintech companies **embed** sustainability into b2b tools.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64027&key=user_uploads/8725/de981465-da6b-4888-b0cd-3df01f8cdce6)\n\nThomas and I found our way to this project via our background in fintech. Prior to Bend, we worked together at Abacus (W14), a real time expense management company that I cofounded in 2014, serving small businesses. At Abacus, we noticed a pattern: finance teams are increasingly paying attention to the climate impact of their purchase decisions, from travel policies, to cloud hosting, and beyond. And better tooling and data is needed to drive pragmatic, effective climate action. \n\n### **From zero to net zero in 5 minutes**\n\nHere’s how Bend works:\n\n* Bend converts spend data into CO2e data.\n* For example: imagine a $1,000 bill from Atlassian. Bend aggregates corporate emissions disclosures; we know that for every $1,000 spent with Atlassian, there’s a 30.2 kg footprint.\n* For long-tail merchants, we have merchant category fallbacks, so you’re always guaranteed 100% coverage (e.g. for Starbucks, we use the Starbucks factor, for a mom-and-pop coffee shop, we use a benchmark ‘coffee shop’ factor).\n* Our methodology is developed and vetted by climate science PhDs (degrees from MIT, Columbia, etc.), and our team has years of fintech experience (Abacus, Emburse, Google, Venmo).\n* Once armed with a complete picture of your emissions, you can choose a course of action — you might consider switching to lower-carbon-intensity vendors, offsetting your remaining emissions, and then **closing sales as a sustainable business** (we can help!).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64027&key=user_uploads/8725/339c2757-2d8e-4721-9bdc-d3b996b98c44)\n\n### **Why now**\n\n* Companies (e.g. Salesforce, Apple, Walmart) now require their suppliers to measure emissions and set reductions targets. Bend can help you sell to these customers.\n* The SEC is expected to roll out new climate data disclosure requirements this year, applying to public companies, with downstream impacts.\n* Your company has a surprising amount of leverage to accelerate decarbonization. It’s a great thing to be a part of, and has positive brand benefits for your startup.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nTry Bend out! [**app.bend.green/sign-up**](http://app.bend.green/sign-up)\n\nAnd if you think we might be able to work together — [schedule time with us](https://calendly.com/ted-bend/30min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Geh-bend-1-click-carbon-accounting", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2022-06-23T19:47:32.624Z" } ] }, { "id": 26752, "name": "Delegasi", "slug": "delegasi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/401f1712c75af775727056181128d235a71bb8e5.png", "website": "https://delegasi.co/", "all_locations": "Bandung, West Java, Indonesia", "long_description": "Financial statements are definitely a hassle for business owners. Many accounting software are available, yet not everyone has the capability to operate them.\r\n\r\nAmidst this problem, Delegasi dares to provide a solution. As the first virtual financial manager in Indonesia, we assist SMB owners in putting together their financial statements and business analysis. 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Business Intelligence for everyone.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/anshorimuslim", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ans4175", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/20fbfe86d77240a5e5987586097951795f9cc65c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65034, "title": "Delegasi - The first automated accounting service for Small Businesses in Indonesia", "tagline": "An automated accounting service that connects to your POS data for small businesses in Indonesia, starting with restaurants and cafes.", "body": "👋 Hi we are Okky and Ans, founders of Delegasi.\n\nWe assist small business owners in putting together their financial statements and analysis automatically. To generate the financial statements, business owners can simply connect their POS and upload their receipts.\n\n—\n\n## ❓ The Problem\n\nAccounting is always a hassle for small business owners. As they need to handle lots of things (marketing, operations, purchasing, etc.), finding time for accounting is too hard. Not to mention, they need to learn accounting to do it properly.\n\nMany accounting software have claimed to help make the process faster and easier, yet many business owners we spoke with stop using them in the first 1-2 months, even after paying a one year subscription fee. Turns out, these software are still too complicated for users without accounting knowledge.\n\n## ✅ **Our Solution**\n\nIf you are a restaurant owner, you can simply:\n\n1. Connect your POS and food delivery service data;\n2. Upload your receipts, bank statements, and stock opname data; and\n3. Your financial statements and analysis are ready\n\nWith Delegasi, no manual input nor accounting knowledge are needed to generate your financial report. Additionally, you will get financial analysis that is catered to restaurants and cafes’ owners.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/d23ceef6-9399-4cc0-a253-0f93f3316faa)\n\nSeveral analysis that we provide\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/0f1fe63a-03c0-4ba8-b9b3-33faa52fb34a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/5533c32f-d4f2-41b7-a3aa-4bb3ce4d6294)\n\n### 🗒️ **Founders Backstory**\n\nWe have known each other for more than twelve years since college. In early 2021 we started to try finding solution for restaurant and cafe owners around staff hiring problems. Turned out, every businesses that we pitched always mentioned accounting as one of their most painful problems. Thus, we took major pivot and tried to find solution on this one. We helped our friends’ businesses and crafted our first products. After experimenting for a few months, we received positive feedback and realized that this could become huge 📈. That was how we started Delegasi 🚀\n\n### 🌐 **Visit Us**\n\nVisit our website (in Bahasa) at and our Instagram account 🙏🙏\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guw-delegasi-the-first-automated-accounting-service-for-small-businesses-in-indonesia", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2022-08-01T01:49:17.694Z" } ] }, { "id": 26782, "name": "Cashboard", "slug": "cashboard", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/546da2a54a34cd455b53d2395bcff96834f7fb53.png", "website": "https://www.cashboard.co", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Inventing the solo CFO.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1657562779, "tags": [ "FinOps", "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B", "Collaboration" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cashboard", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/cashboard.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cashboardhq", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/546da2a54a34cd455b53d2395bcff96834f7fb53.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 956080, "full_name": "Julian Rowlands", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Scruffy & kind. 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Rima interviews these accountants, understands their edge cases and builds custom document workflows to automate this manual work. \n\n**ASK**: If you know accounting teams struggling with manual document workflows we’d love to speak with them - [founders@getrima.ai](mailto:founders@getrima.ai) \n\n**Launch Video** \n\n \n\n**_Problem_**\n\nWhen my mom's small business almost went bankrupt, it wasn't saved by software. It was saved by an accountant who used their brain to rescue the company. But today, these brilliant minds are stuck doing boring, repetitive work.\n\nOver 50% of accountants still get client files as emails, scans, and paper. They waste hours on data entry and broken spreadsheets. Generic AI only gets 55% of the way there because it was never trained on your client's edge cases. That's why accountants say AI is dumb. It's not. It just doesn't have their context yet. \n\nWe don't try to out-Claude Claude. We built Rima to solve the last mile: the library of edge cases (customer context) AI was never trained on so accountants can finally unlock its real value\n\n**_Our Solution_**\n\nRima **interviews accountants** until it understands exactly how they want things done and **captures their unique edge cases**. Then, it builds a custom workflow to handle that task. \\\n\\\nWe leverage what LLMs are good at - coding - and pair it with the **proprietary library of edge cases** that Rima collects across each client to build agentic workflows that are personalized and up to 99.7% accurate. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101608&key=user_uploads/533018/58582253-59ef-4bdd-b37e-7810d8c86ca5)\n\n\\\nRima learns from each client workflow and grows the library of edge cases over time. The end result is customers feel like Rima gets better and easier to use after every workflow. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101608&key=user_uploads/533018/eb9702ef-30bc-4604-ab86-033924c5b9f9)\n\n\\\nToday, accountants use Rima to automate workflows such as cleanups and catchups, bank and CC recon and data entry for tax workpapers among others. \n\nRima is best for accounting teams that still receive documents such as invoices, POs, statements and contracts via email attachments, scans or paper\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101608&key=user_uploads/533018/2d51ab0c-e331-4e20-926e-0c10dd86352f)\n\n\n**_Our team_**\n\nWe worked closely with over 4000 small businesses while building a wholesale distribution business and our accounting back-office was a mess. 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I used to buy and ship auto parts to my dad in Cameroon and realized that the landing cost once those parts arrived in Cameroon was still cheaper than buying locally. We realized that this issue was due to inefficiencies across the supply chain for parts distribution. Garage aims to solve this problem by building a wholesale marketplace that will power the $25B after sales market in Africa.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nOver $25B in auto parts sales in Africa occur at neighborhood retail shops. These retail shop owners are the backbone of the aftersales market yet they struggle to survive because\n\n* They have no visibility into which suppliers have which parts\n* Multiple layers of middle men and low buying power lead to inflated and volatile pricing\n* They don’t have enough working capital to grow their businesses\n\n**The Solution**\n\nGarage is a wholesale auto parts distributor for Africa, supporting these retailers. 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Some get lost, some get erased, and some become a source of questioning. What was that receipt for?\n\nEventually someone makes a **spreadsheet**, **prints** it out, and staples it to corresponding receipts. His/her boss approves these by **signing** with a **pen**.\n\nLater on, an accountant **transcribes** these into some sort of **accounting** software.\n\nIt takes months for decision makers in the company to know how much they are really spending.\n\n### **Companies with Hero**\n\nAn employee uses his/her **Hero Card** to make a purchase. He/she immediately receives a **WhatsApp** message from our bot, asking for a **picture** of the receipt.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65394&key=user_uploads/376933/c4c4b771-3bc0-4bf6-835d-7e7955e40181)\n\nUsers use our **webapp** to create **reports** and manage **reimbursements**.\\\nAll expenses go through Hero’s **OCR engine.**\n\nAccountants use our webapp to **export** expense information to their **accounting** **software** of choice.\n\nDecision makers see in realtime how much their company is spending.\n\n### **Why We Built This**\n\nAlvaro was managing the expenses for a remote company. Employees would send him pictures of receipts via WhatsApp along with a typed out table, asking for reimbursement. \n\nWe hacked away a no-front-end version that saved Alvaro 2 hours per week. We eventually polished the product and started selling it.\n\n# **How can you help us?**\n\nIf you’re in Latam and you spend time reporting expenses or dealing with receipts, reach out to us!\n\nGive us a [follow](https://www.instagram.com/hero_facturas/)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0k-hero-bill-com-for-latam", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2022-08-16T13:56:54.161Z" } ] }, { "id": 27142, "name": "Invofox", "slug": "invofox", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f26d831f2c3961adfb05a98f923a285cd1aa50e.png", "website": "https://invofox.com?utm_source=yc", "all_locations": "Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain; Remote", "long_description": "Software teams in 150+ companies solve their document processing needs using Invofox.\r\nWe are a good option for you if:\r\n- Great accuracy is a requirement in your business (we guarantee +99% as part of our SLAs, written in our contracts)\r\n- You want a simple and easy to understand pricing (we charge per page, and any documents were you report back an error are completely free)\r\n- You want a system that just works, and that gets better over time (Invofox learns automatically with feedback)\r\n\r\nYou can try it with this link and get an extra 250 pages for free: https://go.invofox.com/ooVVIw", "one_liner": "Invofox is the document parsing and data extraction API for software…", "team_size": 12, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1660657383, "tags": [ "Fintech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Spain", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/invofox", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/invofox.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Madrid", "country": "ES", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/invofox/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/invofoxhq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f26d831f2c3961adfb05a98f923a285cd1aa50e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 842901, "full_name": "Alberto Gimeno", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Computer scientist and mathematician.\nWorked for years as a developer before discovering my true passion in sales.\nReach out if you're intested in literature, crossfit or baseball.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimenoalberto", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/517d57a26c22d77c1e1c32bd56198c19869bfcde.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1012426, "full_name": "Carmelo Juanes", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Computer scientist and mathematician. 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Highly skilled in many programming languages with extensive knowledge of ML and DL.\nHobbies include hiking, bouldering, soccer and beer brewing.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-ramirez-delrio/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fbbecad89ac6355c8de92feec4eafd2de6a8693e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 119173, "title": "Invofox – Turn any document into structured, validated JSON", "tagline": "Invofox is the document processing API for software teams: send us any PDF or image and get accurate, validated structured data back.", "body": "Hey everybody! 👋\n\nWe’re [Alberto](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimenoalberto/?isSelfProfile=true), [Carmelo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelojuanes/) and [Adrian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-ramirez-delrio/), the founders of [Invofox](https://www.invofox.com/en/).\n\nWhen we first launched on YC four years ago, Invofox extracted data from invoices.\n\nOver these past few years we expanded to all types of documents, grew to serve +150 software teams across Europa and the US, and processed tens of millions of documents for them.\n\nToday we're excited to launch something new: a fully self-serve API to turn virtually any business document into structured, validated data.\n\n\n\n## TL;DR\n\nSend Invofox a PDF or image. We handle the document processing pipeline and return clean, structured JSON.\n\nMortgage documents, Invoices, bank statements, payslips, receipts, bills of lading, insurance documents, healthcare documents, or your own custom document type.\n\nAnd starting today, anyone can sign up and try the entire product without talking to us first.\n\nUpload your own documents, see the results, define what you want to extract, and integrate the API.\n\nFor the launch, new users get 1,500 pages free.\n\n## The problem\n\nLLMs have made extracting information from a document look deceptively easy.\n\nUpload a PDF. Write a prompt. Get some JSON back.\n\nThe hard part starts when you need to do this reliably in production across thousands or millions of real-world documents.\n\nDocuments arrive rotated, scanned badly, bundled together, in different languages and layouts. You need to split them, classify them, extract nested fields and line items, validate the output, deal with edge cases, measure accuracy, handle failures and continuously improve the system.\n\nAnd one wrong field can be enough to break the workflow downstream.\n\nWe kept seeing software teams build increasingly complicated document-processing infrastructure around models that were supposed to eliminate that infrastructure in the first place.\n\n## We are extraction-first\n\nThere’s an important distinction in how we’ve built Invofox.\n\nMany document-processing products started with parsing: OCR, converting PDFs into text, understanding layout, or making documents searchable. Data extraction then became a natural extension of that product.\n\nWe came at the problem from the opposite direction.\n\nOur core problem has always been: **how do we get the exact data a customer needs out of a document, correctly, every time?**\n\nParsing is one component of that problem, but it isn’t the end product.\n\nThat difference has shaped almost everything about Invofox.\n\nOur technology is optimized around extraction accuracy, not simply producing a good representation of the document.\n\nOur validation layer is designed to catch extraction errors before they reach downstream systems.\n\nOur pricing is built around successfully processed documents rather than tokens, model calls, or pages of parsed text — in fact, if you use Invofox, **documents were we make any mistake are completely free**.\n\nAnd our operations are built around continuously finding and fixing the difficult edge cases that appear in production.\n\nThe goal is not to give you a cleaner PDF.\n\nThe goal is to give your software the right data.\n\nEspecially on the documents where extraction gets difficult.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/85693ce9-c948-4c52-b00f-bf70b1954104)\n\n## What we built\n\nInvofox gives developers one API for the entire document processing pipeline.\n\nSend us a document and we handle:\n\n* Parsing and OCR\n* Splitting files containing multiple documents\n* Document classification\n* Structured data extraction (with support for custom schemas)\n* Tables and line items\n* Validation and confidence checks\n* Production monitoring and continuous improvement\n* Delivery through our API and webhooks\n\nYou can use one of our pre-built document types or define exactly what you want returned.\n\nThe output is structured JSON that can go directly into the rest of your application.\n\nSend your documents to our API and don’t worry about the details: which models to use, how to prompt them, what OCR or parsing techniques will improve your results. You don’t really care about any of that: you just want to get the right data, reliably, at the right price.\n\nToday, 150+ companies use Invofox across accounting, financial services, mortgage, insurance, healthcare, logistics and other document-heavy industries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/3519832a-82b8-43c0-96cd-697a9611acc2)\n\n## Why we obsess over accuracy\n\nAfter processing tens of millions of real-world documents, we've learned that field-level accuracy alone is a misleading metric.\n\nIf you extract 50 fields from a document and get one important field wrong, that document may still require a human to review it.\n\nSo we measure whether the entire document is correct.\n\nOur production accuracy is above 99%, we guarantee this level of quality as part of our SLAs, and we back that up commercially: **if you report an incorrectly processed document, you don't pay for it**.\n\nWe want the incentive to be simple: we make money when the automation actually works.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/947b61ee-a20b-44e0-acf8-8a8858a67f42)\n\n## Why self-serve now?\n\nUntil today, trying Invofox generally meant talking to our team first.\n\nThat increasingly felt wrong.\n\nWe're infrastructure for software teams. The best way to evaluate infrastructure isn't to watch our sales deck or take our word for how accurate it is.\n\nIt's to throw your own data at it.\n\nSo now you can.\n\nCreate an account, upload the ugliest documents you have, inspect the output, and decide for yourself whether it's good enough to put into production.\n\nNo sales call required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/c34993ab-435d-4f29-8921-780561dbf701)\n\n## A little backstory\n\nThe three of us met studying mathematics and computer science in Spain.\n\nWe originally came across this problem while building software that needed to extract data from business documents. Like a lot of engineers today, our first reaction was essentially: surely this has already been solved.\n\nIt hadn't.\n\nWe joined YC in S22 with a product focused on invoice extraction.\n\nSince then, customers kept bringing us adjacent problems: bank statements, mortgage documents, payslips, insurance documents, logistics paperwork, healthcare documents and many others.\n\nThe document types changed, but the problem was always the same: reliably turning messy, unstructured documents into data that software could actually use.\n\nOver time, what started as an invoice extraction product became infrastructure for processing unstructured business documents in general.\n\nThis launch is the first time we're making that entire product available for anyone to try on their own.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=119173&key=user_uploads/842901/dec02fd5-b1cd-41ab-ab2f-199dd9b68a5d)\n\n## Our ask 🙏\n\nWe'd love two things from the YC community:\n\n1. Try Invofox on your hardest documents. We're giving new users 1,500 free pages for the launch. If you find something we can't handle well, I genuinely want to see it.\n2. If your company is building a workflow that involves humans reading PDFs or images and typing information into software, we'd love to talk. There's a good chance that workflow can now be automated.\n\nYou can get started at [invofox.com](http://invofox.com).\n\nAnd if you try it, please send us feedback, especially the bad stuff!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/V09-invofox-turn-any-document-into-structured-validated-json", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-10-05T16:32:42.567Z" }, { "id": 65399, "title": "Invofox - Automatically extract data from invoices 🧾", "tagline": "https://www.invofox.com", "body": "**tl;dr:** We help software companies automatically extract data from invoices, so they can fully automate processes for their customers, such as payments or accounting, without anyone having to review the data. **Reach out through** [**our website**](https://invofox.com) **to learn more!**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Adrian, Alberto and Carmelo, and we are the founders of [Invofox](https://www.invofox.com). We met at university, in Spain, while the three of us majored in math and computer science.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65399&key=user_uploads/842901/5f7a5f4b-3242-4c4b-88aa-a9c8fd8b5b1a)\n\nFrom left to right:\n\n[Adrian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-ramirez-delrio/) is our machine learning expert. He’s responsible for the deep tech side of Invofox. Chat with him about #machineLearning #artificialIntelligence #bouldering or #beerBrewing\n\n[Alberto](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimenoalberto/) is our CEO. He’s responsible for business development and investors relations. Chat with him about #b2bSales #outboundSales #literature or #crossfit\n\n[Carmelo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmelojuanes/) is our CTO. He’s responsible for the productization of our technology, making it usable for our customers. Chat with him about #javaScript #mongoDB #boardGames or #parkour\n\n# Isn’t invoice digitization a solved problem? Why should I care about it?\n\nWell, no. The first time we approached this problem we thought the same thing, but it really isn’t.\n\nMost commercial solutions rely on one of two approaches:\n\n* Template based AI. Basically, you need to pre-configure how to extract information from every different invoice layout you might need to process. It clearly doesn’t scale, it is expensive to setup, and really expensive to maintain.\n* Outsourcing. Meaning someone, somewhere, is going to have to take a look at your invoices. Humans take a long time to do it, and on top of that they make mistakes.\n\nEvery year 100+ billion invoices are issued in the USA and EU, wasting tens of billions of dollars in errors and unproductive costs.\n\nInvofox allows you to automate all of the processes taking place around invoices, such as payments or accounting, without anyone having to review those documents.\n\nWe do this with an easy to use, stripe like, [API](https://prod.kinequo.com/backends/midas/api-docs/), that allows software companies to seemlessly integrate our technology into their product and provide the best possible service to their customers.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\n1. If you are interested in our technology, reach out to us through [our website](https://invofox.com) or email us at [founders@invofox.com](mailto:founders@invofox.com) and try it for free\n2. Share this post! Coming from Spain we do not have a network in the USA, so any notoriety is more than welcome =)\n3. Connect us with other startups or companies that could benefit from automating invoice processing\n\nOur quick blurb: Invofox helps software companies automatically extract data from invoices, so they can fully automate processes for their customers, such as payments or accounting, without anyone having to review the data. 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We do everything from registration to remittance.\n\n### **Problem**:\n\nIn 2018, the [Supreme Court ruled](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.) that states can require out-of-state merchants to charge sales tax.\n\nThis means Shopify stores are now required to register with up to 47 state agencies and potentially submit 47 monthly filings.\n\nAdditionally, there are over 13,000 local jurisdictions, each with their own complex set of rules and rates.\n\nIn Iowa, for example, Snickers bars are taxed, while Twix bars are tax-exempt because they contain flour. 🙄\n\nThe current solutions are confusing, self-serve products that offer little to no service.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nNumeral automates the entire process for ecommerce sellers. Just connect your Shopify, Amazon, or other store and we handle the rest.\n\n* Registration: We can register companies in all 47 sales tax charging states.\n* Monitoring: We monitor for sales tax rate changes and automatically adjust your tax settings.\n* Filing: Lastly, we submit tax returns & payments on your behalf.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xkilm56kCWPHeUyHBIY4a-dsuiEyZgxaIoWV0bcsxo-WXl3fZxZ2qWf5D3I6xy0at4xZ8gvmkxmM245gEWXLIil-WFtvKERRMZmy22bsNB4A95owzOuA7mY1MC3FwQLB9A1gRsqPiG9o85HRpybvCaI)\n\n### **Why us?**\n\n**Kevin** - Kevin is a licensed CPA in the state of California. After working in Big 4 Accounting, Kevin went on to start multiple ecommerce businesses. Kevin and Sam co-own a Shopify brand that does $10M+ in annual revenue.\n\n**Sam** - Sam ran his own bootstrapped e-commerce studio that generated over $50M in revenue over the last 4 years. He previously worked in growth & product roles at Airbnb (W09) and Teespring (W13).\n\n### **Want to learn more?**\n\nIf you know any Shopify or ecommerce owners in general, we’d love to help get them compliant.\n\nSignup or book a demo here: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/INV-numeral-ecommerce-sales-tax-on-autopilot", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2023-03-30T17:21:39.106Z" } ] }, { "id": 27841, "name": "Bujeti", "slug": "bujeti", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62a7ef894596096ec275d7930a661da71c364631.png", "website": "https://www.bujeti.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "Control spending, process payments, manage payroll, and multi-currency operations with approval workflows, total visibility and control, from one unified platform", "one_liner": "The Finance Control Centre for African Businesses", "team_size": 35, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1673189707, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "France", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bujeti", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/bujeti.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Paris", "country": "FR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bujeti", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Bujetihq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62a7ef894596096ec275d7930a661da71c364631.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 156795, "full_name": "Achille AROUKO", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/achille-arouko", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/alekaizer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01307d9c3411ba249b3b7b3fabc88b74d656b1ea.jpg" }, { "user_id": 882789, "full_name": "Samy Chiba", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "COO at Bujeti ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samychiba/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d565bd8ec98695b5319331f901c48d289a0247a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Bujeti launches AI agents to automate routine finance work", "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/09/16/bujeti-launches-ai-agents-to-handle-finance-work/", "date": "Sep 16, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti launches payroll to drive financial control for African businesses | TechCabal", "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/05/21/bujeti-payroll-for-african-businesses/", "date": "May 21, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti launches tax management solution as Nigeria's reforms shape | Business Insider Africa", "url": "https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/bujeti-launches-tax-management-solution-as-nigerias-reforms-shape/yegcdn1", "date": "Feb 12, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti to Power Financial Inclusion for 10M Nigerians", "url": "https://punchng.com/bujeti-signs-partnership-with-presidential-committee-to-power-financial-inclusion-for-10-million-nigerians/", "date": "Feb 06, 2026" }, { "title": "YC-backed fintech Bujeti raises $2M for its corporate cards and spend management platform | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/yc-backed-fintech-bujeti-raises-2m-for-its-corporate-cards-and-spend-management-platform/", "date": "Dec 07, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69607, "title": "💳📈 Bujeti - Corporate cards and expense management platform for African businesses", "tagline": "We help African businesses issue corporate cards, control and manage their expenses", "body": "**TL;DR:** We help African businesses in industries such as Healthcare, Logistics, Agriculture and Construction easily issue corporate cards to their employees and contractors to streamline their spendings. We help them control and manage their expenses by setting up spending limits, restrictions and approval flows for their decisions makers, staff and suppliers.\n\n## **Who are we?**\n\nHello everyone, we are Achille and Samy from [Bujeti](https://www.bujeti.com)\n\n🧠 [Achille](https://www.linkedin.com/in/achille-arouko): Drives ideas and make things come to life. 8yoe engineer, 3+ years at [Paystack](https://paystack.com), and 3x founder in Fintech and AI.\n\n🧠 [Samy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samychiba/): He keeps us compliant and makes operations go smoothly. 2 MsC in Business Administration, 2 years at Ariane Group, former ceo SmartSoft Europe.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/e5c7ef67-82e9-4d84-b95d-7bc5b2190f28)\n\n# **What is a corporate card and why is it hard to get one in Africa?**\n\nA corporate card is a debit or credit card issue by a business to its employees, generally issued to upper management (CXO, Accountants, Team Managers, etc.) and a select number of employees to make payments on behalf of the company.\\\nIn the US and EU, bank card penetration is very high and the process for businesses to get multiple cards from their banks is pretty straightforward— but in Africa where card penetration is still low, getting a card for a business isn’t as straightforward as it should be, much less for multiple cards.\n\nThis is an even a bigger problem for traditional businesses in industries like Agriculture, Logistics, Healthcare, Construction— businesses that are not tech heavy, but contribute to a big part of the GDP of most of African nations. To go around that, businesses generally have one card that they pass around which causes a lot of security, control and fraud issues.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/062f9c7e-3473-43c3-a797-c4dfc1932fd1)\n\n# **How do we fix it?**\n\nTo help fix that problem and allow African businesses to issue cards at will to their employees, while maintaining the control of their spendings, we launched Bujeti, an all-in-one corporate cards and expenses management platform.\n\nWe also help them:\n\n* **Budget** their expenditures to keep their finances afloat\n* **Monitor** and **track** all the expenses made in the company\n* Facilitate **receipts** tracking and collection\n* Automate **Account Payables & Receivables**\n* Set up **spending limits and approval** flow to make sure the resources are well used and create value\n* **Reimburse** out of pocket expenses of their employees\n* **Run payroll**\n* Integrate their **accounting softwares**(QuickBooks, Xero, etc…)\n* Automate **reconciliation** and **reporting**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/43997f82-7bf2-4595-a226-48eccb71c0db)\n\n# **How did we get here?**\n\nAchille wanted to build a personal finance and expenses management app for the African Diaspora that helps automate remittances while keeping an eye on how money sent back home was being spent. 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Powered by AI, Truewind is a digital staff accountant that never sleeps, never gets sick, and always does its work. Completely predictable capacity planning. \r\n\r\nAutomate data categorization, supporting documentation collection, and client follow-up. Truewind’s AI agents will follow up on outstanding action items while the accountant can work on strategic tasks. This is fully integrated and unified across your accounting operations. We make it easy to get work done and get visibility into your team’s processes. \r\n\r\nTrusted by over 100 customers, including accounting firms EisnerAmper and Frank Rimerman, along with fast-growing companies such as Wefunder, StartPlaying and Mozart Data. We’re backed by the industry leaders of accounting and AI, Rho Capital, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Pathlight Ventures, Fin Capital, and Y Combinator. 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The solution that has helped over a hundred companies with their month-end close is now available for accounting firms and internal accounting teams.\n\n## **Introducing the next-generation AI-powered accounting solution**\n\nHow does an “AI-powered” accounting solution improve your current operations?\n\n**With the power of LLMs, you are able to:**\n\n* Auto-classify bank and credit card transactions with >90% accuracy\n* Identify accrual entries and auto-create a work paper in 1-click\n* Collect supporting documentation automatically with 0 intervention\n* Match supporting documentation to your accounting journal entries\n\nThink of Truewind as a **_digital accountant._** A digital accountant that does the repetitive work of categorizing transactions, finding supporting documentation, and closing the month-end books. A digital accountant that works while you sleep.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/6cbbea13-2d87-450a-a42a-1fdb6484d02e)\n\n## **Most alternatives are service providers that are prone to manual errors and overhead costs**\n\nThere are many vendors that help startups with bookkeeping and accounting. These service companies are easy to start because, in the background, they have an army of operational staff who **manually** enter your data into an accounting system.\n\nIf the transaction is missing an invoice or receipt, they will **manually** follow up with you for that document. Accrual journal entries are **manually** tracked in an Excel sheet and **manually** updated monthly. Lastly, reports are **manually downloaded** and shipped to you for review.\n\nWhy is this problematic? The **manual**\\-intensive process is an error-prone one. The Excel file below is an example of how they manage this; now multiply this by 100 rows and 20 tabs. Maybe they get it right as high as 99% of the time. But inevitably, with humans **manually** going back and forth between Excel tabs and traditional legacy systems, it’s never going to be 100%.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/8992ac60-7524-4111-83de-b92a2ca382f1)\n\n## **Month-End Close Powered by AI**\n\nTruewind helps accountants close their books faster without the administrative overhead costs that come with most month-end close management solutions.\n\nTraditional month-end close solutions’ is a checklist. Accountants dislike these solutions because they add administrative workload. Accountants track their month-end checklist in Excel or Google Sheets because it works, but because their company decided to purchase a month-end close software, they have to **manually** move their checklist into the software each month.\n\nTruewind is different in that we _actually do the work for you_. Truewind is a **_digital accountant_** that does the journal entry work while you rest. Each day, you get into the office with your morning queue of work prepared for you to review.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/5b2c1d58-32c4-4d82-807c-468aa2ec6981)\n\n**Here are just a few examples:**\n\n* The AI model is trained on your client’s historical data so that bank and credit card transactions can be **auto-classified** to the correct account, payee, and department\n* By studying historical patterns, Truewind identifies prepaid expenses and **auto-capitalizes** the transaction as an asset. Each month, we **auto-update** the work paper and write the journal entry\n* By studying historical patterns, Truewind identifies and recognizes an accrued expense even though an invoice or payment is missing; when it arrives next month, we **auto-adjust** the journal entries\n* Rather than manually searching for supporting documentation, our integrated AI agents **auto-identify** the supporting documentation that is tied to each journal entry and transaction\n\n## **Visit us at AICPA Engage 24 - Silver Sponsors**\n\nIn addition to this product launch, I’m excited to announce that Truewind is a Silver Sponsor of the AICPA CIMA Engage 24 Conference 💎\n\nAICPA & CIMA Engage is the largest gathering of accountants and finance professionals in North America, with close to 4,000 attendees. And we are thrilled to be a Silver Sponsor for this event. In the coming weeks, we will post about how Truewind helps accounting firms and internal accounting teams close the books closer and get their life back.\n\nWe have many fun activities and talks planned. Follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/truewindai/) & [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/truewindai/) to stay tuned for more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/1da64d47-c89b-4171-b484-2b7ea7df06ee)\n\n## **How to learn more and sign up**\n\nAll of these capabilities are available today for our early accounting firm partners and will be available broadly on June 1, 2024. Our accounting firm partners include fast-growing boutique firms and top 50 national firms.\n\nWe have room for 2-3 more accounting firms in our May onboarding batch. Then, in early June, we will be showcasing this and more at the Engage 24 conference.\n\n**If you’d like to see a live demo and potentially sign up:**\n\n1. **Fill out this **[**Tally form**](https://tally.so/r/3qA68k)** or**\n2. **Email** [**launchyc@trytruewind.com**](mailto:launchyc@trytruewind.com)\n\n## **Made with 💛 from our team**\n\nUnfortunately, Mochi 🐶 didn’t make this photo. During our Launch YC a year ago, Truewind was a team of three. Today, we’re 15 strong with over a hundred customers, including multiple top 50 accounting firms. From our team to everyone - Thank you to the many startups and accounting firms we get to work with day in and day out. We look forward to meeting many more of you.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/c033be10-ba6d-4be4-bd50-045a6052e405)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kwi-truewind-ai-powered-accounting", "votes": 117, "created_at": "2024-04-30T16:34:41.677Z" }, { "id": 69622, "title": "⛵️ Truewind: AI-powered bookkeeping and finance software for startups", "tagline": "Fast growing companies use our AI-bot to automate transaction labeling so they see fewer errors and faster monthly closes.", "body": "Let's get down to brass tacks. You need **bookkeeping to stay compliant** with Uncle Sam 🇺🇸 and you need a **financial model for fundraising**. That's what you need. And that's what we do for you.\n\nOn a lighter note, hey everyone! 👋\n\n### **What we do for you**\n\nI’m super excited to launch [**Truewind**](https://www.truewind.ai/) to all of you! **⛵️ Truewind is AI-powered Bookkeeping and Financial Modeling for Startups**\n\nThrough a combination of generative AI and concierge service, we deliver a delightful financial back office experience.\n\n* Reliable bookkeeping\n* Detailed financial models\n* Built exclusively for startups\n* Fast, responsive expertise\n\nBecause you need investor-ready financials. Your dedicated Truewind team prepares your monthly financial statements reliably and accurately, so you have investor-ready financials when you fundraise.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/1f76d30b-864d-4cb1-a600-223fc9065871)\n\n### **We use Generative AI to capture the business context that only you have**\n\nWe are **delivering a 10x better experience to you, the operator**, by making it easier to provide business context.\n\n* We connect to your bank account and then auto-categorize the transactions that we recognize.\n* For the ones we don’t, we’ll send you a message notifying you that we do not recognize this transaction. You reply in **plain simple English** and we’ll handle the rest.\n* For accrual accounting, upload contracts and invoices on Truewind and our software will read those pdf files.\n* If we’re missing information, say we don’t know the duration, we’ll send you a message that we need more information. You reply in **plain simple English** that the duration is 12 months.\n\nFinance and accounting isn’t simply numbers, **it requires business context that only the operators have.** This is where Generative AI shines. We use GPT-3 to digest your natural language inputs, translate it into accounting journal entries, and learn from it so future journal entries can be automated.\n\n### **Most accounting & finance companies are service providers, prone to manual errors**\n\nThere are many vendors that help startups with bookkeeping and financial models. These services companies are easy to start because, in the background, they aren’t building **reliable** accounting and finance software.\n\nThese service providers have armies of operations staff who **manually** enter your data into an accounting system. Then, they **manually** download reports and ship it to you for review.\n\nWhen they don’t recognize a transaction, they ask _you_ to **manually** categorize the data. Then, next month, they’ll ask you to **manually recategorize** the same transaction. Without native accounting and finance software, they do not remember and learn from previous inputs.\n\nWhy is this service provider approach problematic for your company?\n\n**Service providers are error prone.**\n\nLet’s say a wire of $16K comes into your bank account but the memo says `[Online 13875836747 To Jayson (_########62846)]`\n\nWe don’t know what it is, nor do other accounting companies. So you, **the operator**, has to go thru a drop down of 50 items with words you barely understand and you’re expected to figure out what it should be categorized as. Half the time, you just pick something and move on 👎\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/675a6b16-8efd-4ad7-bd94-61144b3ce66d)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nIf you haven’t picked up a bookkeeping solution yet, give us a chance at winning your business! And even if you already did, give us a chance to change your mind 😆\n\n**Help us become the #1 recommended financial back-office provider for startups 🔥**\n\n**Truewind Customer Form:** \n\nFill out this Typeform to get started with me, Alex. I’ll answer any questions you have on the call, get you onboarded, and even start on the financial model!\n\n### **Our Customers**\n\nYour finances are a delicate thing, I know. Many other fast-growing startups already work with us (listed below). Hopefully this gives you some confidence 🙂 Many of them YC, many of them not, and many of them current batchmates!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/216923c2-b785-4af4-9414-d46873d95f67)\n\n### **A little bit about us and Mochi**\n\nIt feels weird introducing ourselves in a product launch but given we’ll be working with your financial data, I thought you should know about us.\n\n* I’m a second-time YC founder, ex-Boeing engineer, and ex-VC. As an ex-VC, I worked very closely with startup financial statements and I could build a financial model in my sleep.\n* My co-founder Tennison took a whirlwind of a journey: studying business in school → self taught developer → worked at Flexport Pinterest Alibaba → and now building a fintech startup\n* Mochi is our 2-year old Samoyed pup and the chief motivating officer. Kiddo doesn’t understand fiscal responsibility, all he wants is the best organic food.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/4837a8f8-f03f-4543-9d54-ab438664be98)\n\n### **Hit us up if we can help you!**\n\nWe published a **Y Combinator W23 Generative AI Landscape** on LinkedIn that has over 800K views - [check it out here](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexlee611_ai-startup-generativeai-activity-7033871151416164352-mMeR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).\n\nWe love working with founders, accountants, and finance leaders, so pls don’t be shy. 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With our technology, R&D Credits are simple, fast, and affordable.\n\nWant to see a demo? Schedule a call with us [here](https://calendly.com/sprx-team/sprx-initial-discussion)!\n\n### **❌ The problem**\n\nThe R&D Credit is often cited as the most complex and audited tax credit in the United States.\n\nWhen companies do decide to claim an R&D Credit, they often face analysis costs that can be greater than the credit itself!\n\n### **🧠 SPRX Solution**\n\n[SPRX](https://sprx.tax) automates the analysis. When using our software credits computed are:\n\n* Exactly what the government is asking for\n* Completed up to 80% faster than other providers\n* Cost, on average, 50% less\n\n### **⚙️ How does SPRX work?**\n\n[SPRX](https://sprx.tax) uses technology to break the R&D Credit analysis into three easy steps:\n\n1. Gather Data\n2. Review Predictions and Analysis\n3. 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Yes, every **single transaction,** in real-time (i.e. **electronic invoicing**)\n\nThis is **already required** in most **LatAm** countries and India, and the majority of **European countries** are making it mandatory in the next **1-3 years**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68825&key=user_uploads/1138452/fcc7d3af-be8e-41da-9e85-45dd7b4b4286)\n\n## **🎉  Our solution: one API, global compliance**\n\nOur API receives the information of a **sale in a simple open-source format** and **converts it to a locally-compliant invoice,** including\n\n* Sync with tax authorities reporting requirements (e-invoicing).\n* Generate a custom-branded PDF invoice and send it to customers.\n* Integrate with the company’s stack (e.g. ERP, billing, payments, reconciliation).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68825&key=user_uploads/1138452/457c38ec-ba3d-49b8-a18c-4f8e1ddc7fef)\n\nInvopop is already live in **Colombia, Spain & Portugal**. Many more coming soon: Mexico, Italy, Peru…\n\n### **🚀 Why we built Invopop**\n\n**Sam** was previously **co-founder & CTO of Cabify**, and as they expanded to LatAm, complying with the e-invoicing requirements became a nightmare. As he could not find a global provider to solve this, he built Invopop.\n\n**Juan** worked as a **consultant in Mexico** and was blown away by how complex the e-invoicing system was. When he learned this is becoming mandatory in Europe, he knew Invopop was needed!\n\n### **🙏🏼 Ask**\n\nIf you want to make sure your company complies with the new regulation: Schedule a demo with us [here](https://savvycal.com/juan-moliner/15min-public)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hu5-invopop-global-sales-tax-compliance-with-a-single-integration", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-01-30T01:47:23.981Z" } ] }, { "id": 28092, "name": "Dill", "slug": "dill", "former_names": [ "Lux" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6354365dd8a078eedfebf117d50c6ac01a2401b6.png", "website": "https://usedill.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Dill helps construction suppliers automate accounts receivable, online payments, and credit applications.", "one_liner": "Dill helps construction suppliers automate accounts receivable,…", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1676868805, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/dill.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6354365dd8a078eedfebf117d50c6ac01a2401b6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 339405, "full_name": "Catherine Jiang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Second-time founder digitizing payments for the construction industry", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/catherinehuijiang", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9322f32e5bb19715cdd4522adab3ba1893f4db95.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 95754, "title": "Account Executive ($150-180 OTE)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill/jobs/lK4vqF3-account-executive-150-180-ote", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$150K - $180K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 95755, "title": "Sales Development Representative", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill/jobs/PU1CUuB-sales-development-representative", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $100K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 113898, "title": "AI Engineer / Lead", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dill/jobs/n13RHke-ai-engineer-lead", "location": "US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "AI engineer", "salary_range": "$160K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69694, "title": "🌿 Dill - Faster payments in foodservice distribution", "tagline": "We help foodservice distributors get paid faster & get time back on more sales", "body": "Hi everyone! Excited to launch [Dill](https://usedill.com/) 🤠\n\n**What we do**\n\nDill is a digital invoicing & payments tool for foodservice distributors. \n\n**The problem**\n\nFoodservice distributors are processing hundreds of invoices each day. Their biggest pain today is late payments. Restaurants often pay late due to missing invoices and proof of delivery. This is because of the way invoicing is done today – it’s still rooted in paper. \n\n**The solution**\n\nAt Dill, we’re bringing the invoicing & payments process online, and we’re built specifically for the unique workflows of the food supply chain. With us, our customers have gotten paid 20% faster and gotten 20 hours per week back on new sales & better customer service. \n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/KxWNLoQzLq6zbnAe05wfz564uhonBCmELjcZ4TeLnGyEGShYsdLonW7UHcgb5pXlyZy0RpXwqaPeHsxc1Mn5LlxKZ7fcehZatJoVxEHrNlff0gjnUIVtnddmCEg933BdaJoobQCgRVvnrod2MpTSwQ)\n\n**Our backstory**\n\nI’m a second-time founder, and b2b commerce is my bread and butter. My last startup in b2b commerce was acquired, so this isn’t my first rodeo! I have always been passionate about the food supply chain – I previously was a PM at Yelp and have always been a huge foodie 😋\n\n**The asks**\n\n🥦 Would appreciate any **warm leads to foodservice distributors**. If you know someone or know someone who knows someone, reach out at [catherine@usedill.com](mailto:catherine@usedill.com)!\n\n💵 Ping me if you’re also building in AR/AP. Would love to bounce off ideas and share learnings.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I86-dill-faster-payments-in-foodservice-distribution", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2023-02-27T05:56:24.934Z" } ] }, { "id": 28127, "name": "Benchmark", "slug": "benchmark", "former_names": [ "BidSight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0dddc99c1f1c38c90b727d87cc7bb8d59dfad6be.png", "website": "https://withbenchmark.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Benchmark is the trusted AI platform for investment firms. Today, leading firms use Benchmark to screen deals, extract insights from unstructured data, and automate workflows. 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Benchmark efficiently extracts, organizes, and summarizes key information from any data source in seconds while automatically building a proprietary comp database. With Benchmark, decision-makers can capitalize on opportunities with unmatched speed and precision. Visit _[_https://withbenchmark.com_](https://withbenchmark.com)_ to accelerate your investment process today._\n\n_—_\n\nHey YC! We are Alec, Connor, and Josh, the co-founders of Benchmark. We are on a mission to change how private market investors screen investment opportunities and utilize data.\n\n### **❌ The Problem:**\n\nInvestment teams spend thousands of hours each year reviewing investment opportunities that die. When deals die, all of the precious data and context that was painstakingly collected is lost in old email chains and folders. This data is a gold mine for investment firms but is currently neglected. As a result, investment teams spend way too much time focusing on low-probability opportunities, digging through old files for comps, and redoing old analyses.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution:**\n\nBenchmark automatically extracts, normalizes, and summarizes deal data from any data source. Allowing investment teams to quickly screen deals, answer due diligence questions, build comps, and gather context. Benchmark’s single source of truth for deal data provides a huge competitive advantage for teams by minimizing the amount of time they spend on low-probability deals and building permanent institutional knowledge.\n\n### **❓ How it Works:**\n\n* **Upload deal documents**\n * Documents from any data source, whether internal or external, are securely parsed in minutes\n* **Instantly screen your deal**\n * Review deal summaries, key metrics, internal comps, due diligence question answers, and highlighted risks\n* **Dive deeper into any area of interest with Q&A**\n * Ask any question about the deal, and Benchmark will provide accurate answers with instantly verifiable sources, reasoning, and citations.\n* **Retain and analyze all of your data**\n * Upon upload, each file has key metrics extracted - transforming previously unstructured data into a structured database ready for any analysis\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81006&key=user_uploads/1122874/8b8447dc-c49b-40cf-b413-4e59f97bd845)\n\n### **🙏 Asks:**\n\n* **Connect us** ([alec@withbenchmark.com](mailto:alec@withbenchmark.com)) with Private Equity Funds, Institutional Real Estate Investors, Private Credit Funds, or other private market investors.\n* **Test our product**: We would love to have you test our product if you do any private market investing yourself!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L4Y-benchmark-the-fastest-way-to-screen-deals-analyze-investment-data", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-05-21T16:57:01.742Z" }, { "id": 68929, "title": "BidSight 🏗️ - Modernizing pre-construction for CRE developers", "tagline": "Eliminate costly errors and meet deadlines during pre-construction, with the first project management platform specifically built for CRE developers", "body": "### **Tl;dr**:\n\nBidSight makes it easy for commercial real estate (CRE) development teams to manage and collaborate on complex pre-construction workflows. Today, CRE developers manually track pre-construction workflows across hundreds of project documents, which leads to extremely costly errors. BidSight’s platform acts as a single source of truth for development teams, eliminating errors and saving them millions. [Learn more today!](https://www.bidsight.io/)\n\nHi everyone! We’re Alec, Connor, and Josh from [BidSight](https://www.bidsight.io/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68929&key=user_uploads/1122874/e2f756ee-d963-4a1b-b098-b60906f34233)\n\n### **🚧 The Problem: The Pre-Construction process is broken**\n\nDuring pre-construction, commercial real estate developers rely on numerous stakeholders (architects, engineers, contractors, etc.) to help design, permit, and plan construction projects within their budget. However, development teams currently have to utilize a patchwork of non-specialized tools (email, excel, PDF editors, etc) to manage stakeholder workflows and output, creating error-prone, non-standardized, and siloed processes.\n\nThe current process forces development teams to recreate the wheel from scratch on every project and causes them to lose millions of dollars on each project due to error driven delays.\n\n### 📖**Background**\n\nAlec (CEO) spent 5+ years working for one of the largest commercial real estate developers in the United States and dealt with this problem on a daily basis. He spent a significant amount of time searching for a software solution that addressed his highly specific needs; however, none of the non-specialized tools in the market worked. After speaking with numerous other developers that faced the same problem, Alec decided to recruit Connor (ex-Square) and Josh (ex-Google), who have spent their careers developing software, to build the product he always wished he had.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution: Collaborative workflow and data management**\n\nA pre-construction specific workflow and data management platform that acts as the single source of truth for development teams.\n\n* **🧑‍🤝‍🧑Team Management**: Add your full team (internal and external) to a project, with clear permissions structures based on roles and responsibilities\n* **📅Schedule Management**: Create project schedules that update in real-time based on the completion of tasks\n* **📄Drawing & Document Management**: Upload all of your project drawings and our OCR engine will automatically categorize them, allowing for clear version control and change tracking\n* **✔️Task Management**: Assign, track and prioritize tasks, which are directly tied to project documents and deadlines\n* **♻️Templated Workflows**: Create templates and checklists for your specialized workflows to standardize processes\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68929&key=user_uploads/1122874/12194d69-7dc5-4da1-8d19-bfd9c968d4e5)\n\n### **💰 Opportunity: Value beyond savings**\n\nIn 2022, $1.8 trillion was spent on construction in the United States. Recent studies have shown that 75% of construction projects are delayed and less than 1/3 of projects come within 10% of their original budget. This means that there are hundreds of billions of dollars wasted each year due to project delays! Rather than wasting these funds, they should be reallocated to enhance our built world.\n\n### **🙏Ask: How you can help**\n\n* [Connect us](mailto:sales@bidsight.io) to US based CRE developers in your network\n* [Share BidSight](https://www.bidsight.io/) with your network\n* If you are building a company within the real estate & construction space, we would love to connect to learn about your experience ([founders@BidSight.io](mailto:founders@BidSight.io))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hvl-bidsight-modernizing-pre-construction-for-cre-developers", "votes": 75, "created_at": "2023-02-01T16:27:56.777Z" } ] }, { "id": 28183, "name": "Metal", "slug": "metal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0bdcc8475801e999a95ad750970c80614d23f5c4.png", "website": "https://metal.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Firm proprietary data is only as sharp as the context around it. Metal is the context platform for private capital.\r\n\r\nIt structures everything a firm has touched, every deal, company, and figure, along with every decision the deal team has made, into one context graph. So the AI tools your deal teams already rely on, like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot, can reason with the firm's own knowledge. Every deal feeds back into the graph, so the firm's edge compounds: each decision sharpens the one that follows.\r\n\r\nMetal is purpose-built for private equity and private credit. We turn what a firm knows into how it wins.", "one_liner": "The AI context platform for private capital. Everything your firm…", "team_size": 17, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1674209670, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Finance", "Investing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metal", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/metal.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmetal/about/", "x_url": "https://x.com/metal__ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/metal-6dfc", "github_url": "https://github.com/getmetal/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0bdcc8475801e999a95ad750970c80614d23f5c4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1212950, "full_name": "Taylor Lowe", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO of Metal. 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[founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io) or [submit your contact info here](https://www.getmetal.io/contact) 🎸\n\n**👎The problem**\n\nDeal teams are overloaded with data, yet deals remain highly competitive and are lost with an inefficient diligence process. In early diligence alone, analysts spend days reading through expert call transcripts, 10-Ks, or financial statements just to get a basic understanding of a company. This is a highly manual process – and funds are paying analysts $200k/year and up to do it. \n\nOn top of this, fund managers lack insights into their portfolio company’s historic performance, areas of focus, and if they’re deviating from plan. Tracking this data down internally is often infeasible, so managers are left in the dark and their investments are put at risk.\n\n**👍Our solution**\n\nMetal accelerates fund workflows by integrating them with the advanced capabilities of LLMs. Here’s how:\n\n**1\\. Purpose built ingestion pipelines for financial documents.** Funds can upload documents and specify the values they want extracted from datasets. Metal does the heavy lifting from there.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/591aea10-3d61-4c10-be1f-4b47ea9f7930)\n\n**2\\. Diligence workflows rebuilt with generative AI.** Metal extracts relevant quotes, cites sources, browses the web and more when generating responses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/71312968-12bc-4380-8b3e-4c37d8aadc8d)\n\n**3\\. Fully searchable portfolios.** We structure and make all fund data queryable – from memos to board decks to financials. Spot patterns across collections of data and query for deeper insights.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/29e0a3b7-250f-4071-9aad-30c7f54d7e83)\n\n**🙏 Asks**\n\nToday’s launch is an exciting first step, but we’ve got a lot planned for the next 6 months!\n\nWe are rolling out Metal on a per fund basis so we can dedicate more of our resources to each implementation – we’ll work side by side with your team to ensure success.\n\n**If you’re on a PE or VC deal team, or managing a fund** – here’s how you can reach us: [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io) or [submit your info here](https://www.getmetal.io/contact)!\n\n🤘Taylor + James + Sergio🤘", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K92-metal-your-deal-team-assistant", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2024-01-11T18:57:23.238Z" }, { "id": 71084, "title": "Motörhead - LLM memory server built in Rust", "tagline": "Motörhead is an open-source memory and information retrieval server for LLMs.", "body": "## Overview\n\n[Motörhead](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead) is an open-source memory and information retrieval server for LLMs. Built and supported by [Metal](https://getmetal.io/).\n\nAs LLM usage becomes more widely adopted, modern software products must handle users' LLM interactions, chat sessions, and retrieval for relevant prompting context at scale. With much of the performance cost being on the prompting to APIs like OpenAI and other LLMs, contextual data retrieval is ideally as fast as possible.\n\n## Features\n\n* 🪄 Modern strategies to stay within the prompt window\n* 💬 Chat session management out of the box\n* 🦜 [Langchain integration](https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/memory/examples/motorhead_memory.html)\n* 🧠 Automatic Embedding generation via OpenAI ADA\n* 🕸️ Redis Vector DB forto utilize RedisSearch (semantic)\n* 💽 Short-term & long-term storage\n* 🔥 Built in Rust for performance\n\n## Roadmap\n\n* User Authentication\n* Knowledge Graph Memory handling\n* Additional support for other Embedding Models\n* [Create an issue!](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/issues)\n\n## Resources\n\n* Check out [Motörhead on Github](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead)\n* Join the [Motörhead Discord](https://discord.gg/sxbFX5dsQY)\n* Suggest a [feature for Motörhead](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/issues)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IUW-mot-rhead-llm-memory-server-built-in-rust", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-04-20T14:09:32.416Z" }, { "id": 69701, "title": "Metal: Helping developers easily implement machine learning embeddings", "tagline": "Embeddings as a service 🤘", "body": "tl;dr\n\n_Metal makes it easy for developers to implement machine learning embeddings. With embeddings, we help businesses create value from unstructured data like images, text documents, videos and more._\n\nHey everyone! We’re Taylor, James, and Sergio and we’re building [Metal.](https://www.getmetal.io/?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC)\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/BAmRW6DjuFBKZwKTqlBZ3usUOyMeRtO_c34yip0WO65CQX-VCS3IeNXKPOE57AdV-HApI_CC0QjqVgurwEDxHJSDo9BxV5Pve7VXz20yulLPBNYbSKHQXqSxhLowmbYOUlQ7c3sln6lJ4eRTuVMRmL0)\n\n**What’s the problem?**\n\nEmbeddings are super powerful but they’re too hard to use. We learned this the hard way while building machine learning products at companies like Spotify and Meta. Getting to production for simple features (or so we thought) was incredibly painful.\n\nThe team would put weeks into offline training only for the data to be stale in production. It was difficult to iterate on models without versioning. Fine-tuning was highly inefficient. When we finally did get a model deployed there were immediate scaling concerns. It once took us 6 frustrating months to ship a simple embedding classification feature 🤦\n\nCompanies shouldn’t need to reinvent the wheel to use embeddings.\n\n**What’s the solution?**\n\nMetal gives you all the tools you need to quickly and easily implement embeddings against your data in production. \n\n* We integrate with your data sources\n* We generate and store your embeddings\n* We provide real time indexing and search APIs\n* We provide versioning\n* And we make it easier to fine tune embeddings via Metal’s API or SDKs\n\nYou can get started in as little as five minutes.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/izlgcDfSdm-FgMwj8Cns-nsnN2GmkAuUtdsSCQKuLawBY0fcv3KZjgkjiwxa7yiOpbPOnNZs_uN9ERNmCS8ZVVP3IC-NY-qHBe1cuipof9D7JKskIn6FvN-BSuYULjJGJPb6xYyi3e47OUDZ2qm9c4U)\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/nOmwv8oD-qYgxa_m6enimIFMTirXP1olznsJv1UrojbT2lf69WdR0vxc2xLkX8TceIfAusPKPFopsM2vjXcGXIJMDMHQz9lgJhmxPr2qcOI3uS5_b7LI44k1HvaYeFSF2uGvHp1fpgMzuqVsU31sNaA)\n\n**Ok so it’s easy to use, but what about some real world use cases?**\n\n* Better personalization for your users through behavioral clustering\n* Search and compare similarities between data types, such as images or videos\n* Understand how your customers feel by classifying their free text reviews\n* Make the most of internal resources by supporting semantic search of text documents, PDFs, call notes and more\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n1. [**Sign up for early access**](https://www.getmetal.io/?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC) and we will get in touch! [You can also book a time here to learn more](https://calendly.com/metal-taylor/metal-30-minutes-landing?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC).\n2. **Introduce us to companies** who could use Metal. We mostly work with small to medium size companies (10-200 people) who have raised a series A. These companies have an embeddings use case but don’t want to spend the time/resources to build it from scratch.\n3. **Help us build the future** :) If you’re experienced with embeddings and want them to be simpler, then we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch: [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io)\n\nYou can also follow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/metal__ai) or [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmetal?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC) :) 🤘\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8D-metal-helping-developers-easily-implement-machine-learning-embeddings", "votes": 179, "created_at": "2023-02-27T14:57:53.771Z" } ] }, { "id": 28410, "name": "Finta", "slug": "finta", "former_names": [ "Porter" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb79fed805e928fe0d188a9f6392ca4ee5df90fc.png", "website": "https://www.finta.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Automated bookkeeping, effortless tax filing, real‑time insights.\r\n\r\nSet up in 10 mins and get back to building.", "one_liner": "Magically simplify accounting and taxes", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1673469605, "tags": [ "SaaS" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/finta.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/finta/", "x_url": "https://x.com/finta", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb79fed805e928fe0d188a9f6392ca4ee5df90fc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 311901, "full_name": "Andy Wang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Finta", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/a27wang/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/andywang", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6bed60b80d84dd608100bdaebece81b30a7962f2.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 66636, "title": "Founding Designer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/awUE3Ik-founding-designer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Product design", "salary_range": "$140K - $220K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 5.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 81583, "title": "Founding Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/vg5fXEw-founding-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "5.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 91067, "title": "Founding Design Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/4PPf5gR-founding-design-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$100K - $180K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 3.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "CSS", "HTML", "Tailwind" ] }, { "id": 96605, "title": "Community/Events Lead", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/q0zw6lg-community-events-lead", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$120K - $160K", "equity_range": "1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 116637, "title": "Founding Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/sHWPMUf-founding-account-executive", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$210K - $240K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 116638, "title": "Partnerships Lead", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/TwH2Nxi-partnerships-lead", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$165K - $190K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "From student investor to startup success | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo", "url": "https://uwaterloo.ca/news/arts/student-investor-startup-success", "date": "Jan 11, 2024" }, { "title": "TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Startup Battlefield", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/introducing-the-startup-battlefield-200-companies-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2023/", "date": "Aug 24, 2023" }, { "title": "Finta is carrying accounting software's bags to the curb", "url": "https://thefounderspack.beehiiv.com/p/porter-carrying-accounting-softwares-bags-curb", "date": "May 18, 2023" }, { "title": "Enterprise trends from YC W23 Demo Day", "url": "https://www.wing.vc/content/enterprise-trends-from-yc-w23-demo-day", "date": "Apr 14, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 73364, "title": "📘Finta: Accounting Platform for Startups", "tagline": "Manage bookkeeping, taxes, and get financial insights in one app", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n[Finta](https://www.finta.com) is the simplest way for startup founders and operators to manage taxes, bookkeeping, and track financial metrics - all in one platform.\n\nFinta replaces expensive bookkeepers, Quickbooks, and Google Sheets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/9c32e2c7-32f6-420a-ba5d-8c1a020c2dc6)\n\n### **Problem**\n\n1\\. Expensive bookkeepers with deceptive billing practices\n\n* Starts at $700+/month for startups\n* Price goes up based on expenses, not value\n* Charge to bank account directly without notice\n\n2\\. Repeated questions, mistakes, and late results\n\n* Asks repeatedly simple about categorizing expenses\n* Asks accounting questions that they should be educating you on\n* Put you on tax extensions and don’t file by the April deadline\n* Deliver financial results 3 weeks after the month ended\n\n3\\. Dealing with multiple people and tools\n\n* Introduced to a new person on your account every month\n* Paying for Quickbooks, but you don’t use it\n\n4\\. After all this, still can’t understand your finances\n\n* Can’t get accurate results on cash, burn, runway\n* Don’t understand why financials went up or down\n* No visibility into your revenue or expenses\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/7a28573d-2d16-429d-a877-47d58256d1e6)\n\n### **Solution**\n\n1\\. Transparent and fairly-priced\n\n* Flat price per year, does not increase until your next funding round\n* Includes monthly bookkeeping, taxes, and insights\n\n2\\. Accurate results on time, and proactive on your taxes\n\n* No repeated or common-sense questions, unless we’re not sure\n* You’ll never do anything manually. We value your time.\n* Monthly bookkeeping within the first few days\n* Taxes are always on file time and get proactive notices\n\n3\\. All-in-one platform\n\n* We built accounting from the core, not a wrapper on Quickbooks\n* Actual software, not a form or messaging portal\n\n4\\. Source of truth for your financials\n\n* Easily connect with tools you already use\n* Modernize your finance tech stack\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/06a2b765-545e-4a30-b218-919c3650b315)\n\n### **Frequently Asked Questions**\n\n**How does Finta differ from bookkeepers like Pilot?**\n\nThey do your bookkeeping in Quickbooks. Finta replaces both bookkeeping and taxes, and gives you way more financial insights.\n\n**How does onboarding work for Finta?**\n\nSign up, integrate, and that’s it! It’s at most 10 minutes.\n\n**What if I already have a bookkeeper that manages Quickbooks?**\n\nIt’s the same process to onboard. Finta will actually enrich the data that Quickbooks can’t pull from your existing finance tools.\n\n**What’s the risk of not using Quickbooks?**\n\nNo VC or customer will ever require you to be on Quickbooks. In fact, no one likes Quickbooks.\n\nIf, for whatever reason, you need to go back to Quickbooks, we’ll provide white-glove service for free and help you migrate. However, you’ll lose transaction details because of Quickbooks’ limitations.\n\n**What taxes do you handle?**\n\nFinta handles everything from franchise and income taxes at the city, state, and federal levels. Finta also provides R&D tax credit services.\n\n**How frequently are my results?**\n\nWe’re aiming to give you a real-time dashboard. As of today, we deliver bookkeeping and financial reporting every month.\n\n### **Get Finta**\n\nVisit [www.finta.com](http://www.finta.com) or send me an email at andy at finta dot com", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J5I-finta-accounting-platform-for-startups", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2023-07-24T18:24:13.688Z" } ] }, { "id": 28412, "name": "Speedy Labs", "slug": "speedy-labs", "former_names": [ "SpeedyBrand" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/621b935d9e98b45293833804f8d64d9f43348ad6.png", "website": "https://speedylabs.ai/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote", "long_description": "Speedy Labs helps manufacturers and distributors ditch error-prone spreadsheets that cost them millions in missed rebate opportunities for an AI-powered solution that not only tracks rebate payments and their performance but also unlocks insights from their financial data silos that uplifts their bottom-line profit margins.\r\n\r\n$1 trillion worth of rebates are exchanged every year in North America alone.", "one_liner": "Maximize profits with AI-powered rebate management.", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1676873926, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speedy-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/speedy-labs.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Toronto", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/89983427/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/621b935d9e98b45293833804f8d64d9f43348ad6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/53db8d25fb13b59be1bdd3a0f1242292eef9b34c.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1148352, "full_name": "Jatin Mehta", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Having built AI algorithms for cancer detection from mammograms, I'm on a mission to apply AI for good at scale. 50% of the businesses fail in the first 5 years according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Currently building Speedy Brand to democratize marketing for SMBs across the USA with generative AI to help support budding entrepreneurs establish their online presence and get their business a better chance at surviving.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jatinmehta1/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/j1mehta", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/08fd0581114c24db8cb8237c0a4740acf182f234.jpg" }, { "user_id": 177596, "full_name": "Ranti Dev Sharma", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Speedy, Vetan, Apple, Microsoft, AI", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rantidevsharma/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4db2ba57a24f5ef17ddbac082effeebfc6043d46.jpg" }, { "user_id": 868495, "full_name": "Ayush Jasuja", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasujaayush/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c5279060f3b45351f96ff42ba1a8f3a6cab5dc13.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 83637, "title": "Software Engineer - Backend (Remote)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speedy-labs/jobs/Ov3fOAY-software-engineer-backend-remote", "location": "IN / Remote (IN)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$20K - $40K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Django", "PostgreSQL", "Python" ] }, { "id": 86410, "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer (Remote – US Time Zones)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speedy-labs/jobs/O9XWRyK-forward-deployed-engineer-remote-us-time-zones", "location": "IN / Remote (IN)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "₹1M - ₹2M INR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Django", "Python", "ETL", "Data Modeling", "Data Analytics" ] }, { "id": 89031, "title": "Founding Senior Business Development Representative", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speedy-labs/jobs/wTqml8O-founding-senior-business-development-representative", "location": "US / CA / Remote (US; CA)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$85K - $110K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 113406, "title": "Customer Success Manager/Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/speedy-labs/jobs/4KFowWQ-customer-success-manager-engineer", "location": "US / CA / Remote (US; CA)", "type": "Contract", "role": "Product", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$60K - $120K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "SpeedyBrand uses generative AI to create SEO-optimized content | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/07/speedybrand-generative-ai-marketing/", "date": "Jul 07, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69662, "title": "Speedy - Democratizing marketing to SMBs", "tagline": "Effective & affordable content marketing using Generative AI", "body": "**TL;DR**\\\nSpeedy gets traffic for SMBs at affordable prices through content creation that is 10x faster using Generative AI. We create a custom AI model for each business, that helps you curate hyper personalized content like blogs, socials and get organic traffic on your site.\n\n### **Problem**\n\n* SMBs cannot afford the high fees of digital marketing agencies that go into thousands of dollars per month.\n* Due to a limited marketing budget, they often lose traffic to more prominent companies.\n* They lack the time and resources to create and run content marketing campaigns.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nUsing Generative AI, Speedy creates SEO-optimized blogs and social media content, which SMBs can use to do effective marketing at a price that works for them.\n\n**How does it work?**\n\n1. Once you onboard to our monthly/annual plan, we conduct a branding workshop to feed into our models to help bring your brand’s voice to the content.\n2. For a monthly subscription, you get 4 blogs and 16 social media posts that are SEO-optimized.\n3. For an annual subscription, you get monthly benefits + a monthly newsletter + an annual content strategy.\n\n### **Backstory**\n\nWhile serving SMBs at Vetan (a payroll app), we realized they did not have the budget for the expensive marketing agencies. As an online business, having effective content around its products is crucial to get leads. At Speedy, we understand that creating engaging content can be time-consuming and expensive. That's why we offer affordable plans that include weekly SEO-optimized blog posts and social media posts for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And with our high-conversion ad copies for Google, Facebook, Instagram, and more, you can take your ad campaigns to the next level.\\\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\\\n1\\. Checkout our demo for your website \\\n2\\. If you know an SMB/early-stage startup that might need us, happy to connect on [founders@speedybrand.io](mailto:founders@speedybrand.io)\\\n\\\n💰 **Deal**\\\nAs a YC company, **get 50% off** our monthly and annual plans.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I7a-speedy-democratizing-marketing-to-smbs", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-02-24T20:43:03.543Z" } ] }, { "id": 28844, "name": "Alguna", "slug": "alguna", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e2a3ced5969028060bbaaf152193b5b6a2b3982.png", "website": "https://alguna.com", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom; Remote", "long_description": "We are Alguna, building a modern platform that helps B2B companies price deals, send quotes, bill customers, and collect payments - all in one place.\r\n\r\nOur mission is to create the most efficient revenue engine for B2B SaaS.\r\n\r\nToday, many companies run these processes with spreadsheets and a patchwork of separate tools. That leads to slow approvals, manual work, mistakes, and missed revenue—especially as pricing gets more complex.\r\n\r\nAlguna replaces that mess by connecting the entire flow from **quote to cash**: what sales sells becomes what finance bills, automatically. 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As soon as a company introduces custom terms (discounts, ramps, multi-year deals, usage-based pricing, credits, multi-entity billing), the process breaks down: quotes don’t match invoices, billing becomes manual, and finance is stuck cleaning up exceptions every month.\r\n\r\nAlguna solves this by providing a single platform that unifies **pricing, CPQ, billing, invoicing, payments, usage metering, and collections automation** into one **quote-to-revenue** system.\r\n\r\n**Why is this a big problem?**\r\n\r\nBecause revenue operations scale poorly when the infrastructure is fragmented.\r\n\r\nThe impact is measurable:\r\n\r\n\\- **Revenue leakage:** missed invoices, incorrect pricing, unbilled usage, and manual errors compound over time.\r\n\r\n\\- **Slower deal cycles:** approvals and “can we even bill this?” questions delay closing.\r\n\r\n\\- **High operational cost:** finance and revops teams spend their time reconciling systems instead of controlling revenue.\r\n\r\n\\- **Engineering dependency:** product teams get pulled into custom billing logic, integrations, and edge cases.\r\n\r\n\\- **Harder forecasting and reporting:** when the source of truth is scattered, finance cannot trust the numbers.\r\n\r\nAs more companies adopt **usage-based**, **hybrid**, and **AI-driven** pricing models, the gap between modern monetization and legacy revenue stacks keeps widening.\r\n\r\n**What made you decide to work on it?**\r\n\r\nWe saw the same pattern across fast-growing B2B teams: the product and go-to-market motion moves quickly, but the revenue stack stays stuck in old systems built for simpler subscriptions.\r\n\r\nTeams end up running “mission-critical revenue” on spreadsheets and disconnected tools—because replacing them is painful, and building in-house is expensive and distracting. Yet the cost of doing nothing is continuous: every custom deal creates more manual work, more risk, and more leakage.\r\n\r\nAlguna exists to modernize that foundation. We’re building the revenue management engine B2B companies need to sell flexibly, bill accurately, and scale without chaos—by unifying the quote-to-revenue lifecycle and automating the back office." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "We will know Alguna succeeded when **B2B monetization stops being a patchwork of spreadsheets, PDFs, and disconnected tools**—and becomes a single, programmable revenue engine that companies can run with speed, precision, and confidence.\r\n\r\nThe world today is stuck with legacy revenue stacks that were built for simpler subscription businesses. 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", "body": "# **📝 TL;DR:**\n\n> [Alguna](https://alguna.io) is a modern pricing, quoting, and billing platform for B2B SaaS. Companies use it to unify the quote-to-revenue process by automating complex and manual back-office operations. [Book a demo](https://alguna.io) to learn more.\n\n# **❌ Problem**\n\nAs companies grow, they want to offer more customized deals to their larger customers, capture data around product usage, forecast revenue, and experiment with pricing. As they scale, instead of graduating to better tools, they default to using spreadsheets and manual processes to connect single-point solutions.\n\nAfter interviewing over 100 company leaders, we’ve seen what consequences information siloes and fragmented solutions can have on the companies’ growth trajectories. \\\nFrom light issues like hiring people to copy/paste data between systems to fundamental ones like not trusting your revenue data or asking your customers to tell you how much they used your product.\n\n> _In times of growth at all costs, companies could’ve turned a blind eye to these imperfect workflows; however, as 2023 loomed over the whole SaaS world, these revenue-impacting inefficiencies represent the line between company survival and the slow death of running out of money without even realizing it._\n\n# ✅ **How Alguna works**\n\nOur core premise is to enable our customers (growth-stage startups and enterprises) to flexibly close more deals faster without worrying about internal limitations and relying on finance and engineering teams.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/9b1a2f85-6a49-4420-8839-23d7193526fa)\n\n> We’ve built **an end-to-end solution** covering the whole customer lifecycle while **complementing** existing **sales** (CRMs), **finance** (ERPs/Accounting), and **engineering** tools.\n\n**Configure pricing & create custom quotes**\n\n* Set up pricing and packaging across all sales channels while supporting any pricing model (including subscriptions, usage-based, platform fees, etc.)\n* Create the most customizable plan options with custom product billing options, one-off integration fees, special discounts, and complex renewal terms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/d5c62cfa-bb64-45bd-b544-4ff878cbc363)\n\n**Streamline the contract signature flow**\\\nAlguna provides an embedded signature experience directly from the proposal you send customers. This is then automatically connected to tools upstream (CRMs) and downstream (ERPs), enabling the cohesive external (prospects/customers) and internal experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/f722da69-f9ef-4655-be51-676d57731dbb)\n\n**Seamless and reliable invoicing experience**\\\nSince the pricing models and quotes are natively integrated, everything is automatically connected with the billing engine, enabling the accurate and reliable customer billing experience directly via Alguna or ERP tools of your choice (Stripe Invoicing, Netsuite, Xero, Quickbooks, Bill)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/8802ecb0-928d-4ff8-9bf2-d6593fae75a3)\n\n**Source of truth for revenue metrics** \\\nEmpower sales and customer success teams with usage data to drive more revenue and unlock new upsell opportunities with real-time revenue data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/f34387fc-134a-471f-bba3-0d38d1e992f8)\n\n# **🏟️ Why us**\n\nWe ([@Jamie MacLeod](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-macleod/) & [@Aleks Đekić](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksdjekic/)) met at a fintech startup where we helped scale the payments and automation teams and products. 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It’s a modern general ledger with advanced features such as multi-entity support and advanced revenue reporting in a modern, consumer-grade interface.\n\n**Revenue dashboard**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/vNK1saTKs-pUioJMvekmx0HD-W31n_MBiUdMPRGN1IPkDQ9GZYCsPvvRagD9KX4AVxPp0vVYFXz0G9h_-WUhqujPCLefCUb7ZZIQ34KUOdWsv0NgGJk3Be6AWqlxmyyg30WsrJZfGhPK9nlGVjXn44s)\n\n---\n\nWe’ve been building our accounting platform to compete with Netsuite since day one at Campfire, but it’s a massive undertaking, so our initial product launch was one of our features - [Revenue Automation](https://meetcampfire.com/revenue-automation/) for unified invoicing/payments, revenue accounting, and reporting. And today, I’m thrilled to share more about our flagship product - [Core Accounting](https://meetcampfire.com/core-accounting/). It’s a modern accounting platform with companies such as Carbon Direct, Populi, and Delphia using the product. We’ve been beta testing our general ledger since July with customers that range in size from 10 employees to 150-employee global companies and are now ready to onboard more customers. Our typical customer migrates to Campfire from QuickBooks and Xero, but we’ve also migrated customers from mid-market ERPs like Sage Intacct and NetSuite.\n\n**Multi-entity income statement:**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/TEOi8cfTZbfz5jIat7AQ9jyKDZAACh6xRhu6LnB4USU1zwe4bBfwA6_D8HFwHqXX1gYfcRPLSSibjFI9oJ_QTi9qc8au9Zh_TybxyGGb8tkRhI68BBDwd8QO7QFiaLuTP2Rj6tidNHI7vxmfbumeC-0)\n\nMy co-founder, [Fernando](https://linkedin.com/in/fsanmartinjorquera), and I ([John](https://linkedin.com/in/johnglasgow)) have scaled multiple accounting software companies including Invoice2go (acquired by Bill.com for $600M+) and Trovata (powering the treasury accounting for companies like Block and Etsy).\n\n**Campfire benefits**\n\n* **Turn the lights on for your financial data** - Unlock actionable and timely KPIs and financial insights with advanced financial reporting for increased visibility such as contribution margin by customer and P&L by department. Empowering executives to make informed, timely decisions.\n* **Scale from startup to global operations** - The first modern general ledger that effortlessly scales globally with your company via support for muti-entity and multi-currency financial consolidation, advanced revenue automation, and multi-dimensional reporting.\n* **Accelerate the accounting close process** - In the current environment, we’re all looking to grow faster while cutting burn. Streamline accounting and financial reporting workflows to free up resources so your team can focus on strategic, high-value work.\n* **API-first approach** - Our [**modern APIs**](https://api.meetcampfire.com/api/docs/) power custom integrations for customers that have automated custom accounting workflows in a matter of days.\n\n**Quotes from a few customers:**\n\n> “We migrated from Sage Intacct to Campfire to accelerate our close process. It’s the only solution in the market that is modern, yet has the power to support our global operations across multiple legal entities and currencies.”\n>\n> Andrea Burton, CPA | VP of Finance Delphia (YC W18)\n\n> “When we were on QuickBooks, it was obvious the product was not built for tech companies like ours. The migration to Campfire was painless and now we are able to make informed decisions and track KPIs as we scale.”\n>\n> Jon Yoo, CEO @ Suger (YC W23)\n\n## **Get started with Campfire**\n\nSend me an email ([**john@meetcampfire.com**](mailto:john@meetcampfire.com)) or check out our website at [**www.meetcampfire.com**](http://www.meetcampfire.com/) to learn more and schedule a demo.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVm-campfire-the-modern-version-of-netsuite", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-02-28T16:13:45.104Z" }, { "id": 73767, "title": "Campfire ⛺ 🔥 : Revenue management for Series A+ tech companies", "tagline": "Your investor updates just got a lot better", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nMost Series A+ tech companies still manage revenue recognition, attribution (expansion, churn, etc.), and KPIs in spreadsheets. Campfire simplifies the entire process by ingesting your revenue data (customer contracts, Stripe data, etc.) through AI to automate your revenue recognition, invoice management and KPI reporting for any business model (subscription, usage, marketplace, etc.). We’re currently performing the data migration (at no cost!) for new customers through the end of August. Check us out at [meetcampfire.com](http://meetcampfire.com)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73767&key=user_uploads/815940/5446f7b9-e256-4832-9844-aeca965da002)\n\n_Quick tour of our dashboard page_\n\n**How we know this is a problem**\\\nAs an exec at Invoice2go (90 employees, Series C), one of the largest pain points [John](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/815940) encountered was that the company had outgrown QuickBooks, but the migration to NetSuite didn’t make sense due to pricing, resourcing and the required migration effort. After selling the company to and leading partnerships at [Bill.com](http://Bill.com), John noticed significant innovation happening around core accounting (Brex, Zip, Rippling, etc), but accounting software itself like NetSuite hadn’t been refreshed in 20+ years.\n\nAt the same time, [Fernando](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/847698) led back-end engineering at Trovata, which is treasury software for customers like Square and Etsy. He realized there was an opportunity to bring enterprise-grade automation to mid-size companies.\n\nBringing our experiences together, we know that we can make a difference in an area that hasn’t seen improvements in decades. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73767&key=user_uploads/815940/eab61627-c57c-4806-a75c-2dbc58c577db)\n\n_This was the moment when it sunk in that we’re really in Y Combinator!_\n\n**Our Solution**\\\nTo fix this inefficiency, we’ve launched _Revenue Management_ as our first product. We’re migrating accounting and finance teams out of spreadsheets and into automated, AI-powered software that ingests customer contracts and computes revenue recognition and KPIs (ARR, churn, etc.) to improve accuracy, saving both time and money. Early customers are saving 90% of the time it takes to manage revenue, allowing their accounting/finance teams to focus on high-value, impactful work instead of performing manual tasks in spreadsheets. Your investor/Board updates just got a lot better, and your accounting teams just got a lot more efficient. Our product is fully operational for any business model and referenceable with happy campers (pun intended!) like Jenny Jao, Head of Finance at Sprig (Series B) who said:\n\n> Our time-to-value with Campfire was really fast. We're moving our revenue and invoice management out of spreadsheets and into Campfire to automate everything. It's a big win for us.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73767&key=user_uploads/815940/ea2da31f-8ee9-4c14-8ac5-41c21ac29be9)\n\n_View of a customer contract_\n\nCampfire works well for any business model from marketplaces managing hundreds of thousands of monthly transactions in a database to enterprise subscription software managing contracts in spreadsheets. Irrespective of business model, Campfire automates your revenue KPI’s for investor/exec updates and monthly journal entry for any accounting software such as QuickBooks and NetSuite. \n\n**Our ask:** We’re looking to connect with finance and accounting leaders at Series A+ tech companies to explore how Campfire can save them between one day and one week every month, while turning the lights on their revenue KPIs to improve exec reporting and investor updates.\n\n**Launch YC Promo:** \\\nWe’re currently performing the entire data migration out of spreadsheets (at no cost!) for new customers through the end of August. 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Reduce your revenue accounting down to a few clicks per month, and increase your efficiency. 📈\n\n**Check out our website at **[**meetcampfire.com**](http://meetcampfire.com)**, drop me a note at **[**john@meetcampfire.com**](mailto:john@meetcampfire.com)**, or **[**schedule a demo**](https://www.meetcampfire.com/company/meet-campfire)** to get started.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JBn-campfire-revenue-management-for-series-a-tech-companies", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2023-08-03T16:54:17.347Z" } ] }, { "id": 28849, "name": "Punchcard", "slug": "punchcard", "former_names": [ "Audit AI", "Substantive AI", "Agentive" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/35234c07d053e0ad46079e11465b9c97a2ee8f2d.png", "website": "https://www.punchcard.com", "all_locations": "Provo, UT, USA", "long_description": "Punchcard is a system designed for assurance engagements like financial statement audits and SOX control programs. Purpose-built for selecting, requesting, and testing audit evidence. Punchcard leverages assertion-driven AI agents that perform testing procedures from natural language instructions—just like an audit associate.\r\n\r\nBy combining critical workflows such as audit planning, client document requests, evidence testing, and workpaper documentation into one seamless platform, Agentive streamlines audit processes, reduces inefficiencies, and frees teams to focus on high-impact areas.", "one_liner": "Agentive assurance system for auditors, risk consultants, and clients.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1687833550, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/punchcard", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/punchcard.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Provo", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goagentive", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/goagentive", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/35234c07d053e0ad46079e11465b9c97a2ee8f2d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2f459ac3b39d8f681881c2f702317a166902814b.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1097859, "full_name": "Daniel Alberson", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Daniel Alberson is the co-founder and CEO of Punchcard. Daniel started his career as an auditor and product manager at Ernst & Young after graduating with a Bachelor in Accounting from BYU. He then dropped out of Northwestern's Master in Product Design to join Facebook as a product manager for augmented reality glasses.\n\nHe's leveraging his unique experience as an auditor and product manager to transform the auditing profession.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alberson", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DannyAlberson", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/669dd1f0b3a3611031866549f92f26db63c308c4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 88440, "title": "Agentive—Audit Requests Clients Love", "tagline": "Meet Agentive, the AI Workspace for Auditing and Client Collaboration.", "body": "**TL;DR** Agentive completely redesigned document requests to eliminate confusion and unnecessary busy work—reducing client rework by 25% and streamlining audits. Uploaded documents become AI-drafted workpapers aligned with your firm’s templates, cutting review time by 90%.\\\n\n\n# **Improving the client-auditor relationship, one request at a time**\n\nThe toughest part of an audit isn’t issuing the opinion—it’s getting the right documents on time. Existing solutions still confuse clients, require significant training, and lead to re-work that strains relationships. Agentive set out to change this by making document requests seamless and user-friendly.\n\n# **The current frustration**\n\nRequesting documents (often called a PBC list – “Provided By Client” list) can be a nightmare:\n\n1. **Confusing User Interface:**\n * Clients often need training just to see what’s outstanding and upload a document.\n2. **Unorganized Sample Requests:**\n * For example, a client might receive a request with an Excel file listing 25 expenses, each expense needing multiple pieces of evidence (like invoices and bank statements).\n * They must gather and upload all evidence into an unorganized folder. This disorganization leads to many mistakes and re-work that can be prevented.\n * Auditors often take days—or even weeks—to review documents provided by the client; they must match each file to its correct item in the sample. Any missing or incorrect evidence requires re-work from the client.\n3. **Constant Follow-Ups & Strained Relationships:**\n * Every missing document adds friction, but the longer it takes for clients to learn about mistakes, the more pain it causes.\n * Hours are lost chasing missing documents, leaving clients feeling nagged and auditors drained.\n\nThis **painful status quo** has been accepted as “just part of auditing” for far too long. Clients dread it, and firms worry that each request for info might annoy their client. The result? A process that should be straightforward often drags on with frustration on both sides.\n\n# **The purpose-built solution**\n\nWhat if providing audit evidence required zero training—and even felt satisfying? Enter Agentive’s new request flow, purpose-built to eliminate friction in auditing.\n\n1. **Request with Samples**\n * **Native Itemized Requests:** Instead of downloading an Excel file to view the items in the sample, Agentive natively integrates the sample table into the request.\n * **Precise Uploads:** Clients attach specific evidence at the intersection of each sample row and document request column—eliminating guesswork and simplifying review.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88440&key=user_uploads/1097859/c3416ec7-7d91-4d2f-a49e-bd39a4474dbe)\n\n2. **Engagement Board View**\n * **Instant Visibility:** Both auditors and clients see requests by status and category at a glance with drag and drop updates.\n * **Satisfaction:** Clients enjoy checking off completed items, ensuring everyone knows what’s done and what’s outstanding.\n3. **Auditor Review Improvements**\n * **Flexible Upload**: Whether clients upload files one-by-one or in bulk, AI matches each document to the correct sample item—even in multi-page scans.\n * **Instant Citations**: Every value is automatically located within uploaded documents, with one-click navigation to its exact location.\n * **90% Faster Review**: AI-powered matching, detail testing, and analysis, let auditors quickly spot missing or insufficient documentation, slashing follow-up time with client.\n\nImagine your next audit kickoff: your client opens Agentive and says, **“Oh, this is nice!”** Instead of groans and procrastination, they begin right away—confident about what you need. Each step is transparent and even rewarding as they see their progress. What once felt like pulling teeth becomes a smooth collaboration.\n\n# **Available Now: AI-Drafted Audit Procedures**\n\n**In this post, our focus is on you and your clients**, and making sure the foundation of every audit – collaborating with the client – is as smooth and organized as possible. As former auditors, we’re equally dedicated to improving auditor job satisfaction. We do this by listening to you, our users, and solving your problems with **human-centered design** and **artificial intelligence.** Every document uploaded in a client request can easily be transformed into your firm’s audit workpaper template through our **AI-powered** document matching and AI prompts. We’re incredibly proud these workflows are set up in a few clicks and workpapers are ready for review in less than a minute after every client upload.\n\n# **Ready to Delight Your Clients?**\n\n[**Schedule a demo**](https://goagentive.com/) or email [founders@goagentive.com](mailto:founders@goagentive.com) to see how Agentive can elevate your firm for both clients and auditors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88440&key=user_uploads/1097859/5d75969b-9c44-479e-a96f-00db77d0df43)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N0S-agentive-audit-requests-clients-love", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-03-10T21:00:24.202Z" }, { "id": 72821, "title": "Agentive: AI-powered copilot for auditors", "tagline": "We help accountants analyze financial records, perform audit procedures, and draft documentation in seconds.", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re Agentive.\n\n**TL;DR** Agentive helps auditors unlock growth by shortening the time to perform audits. Auditors use our AI-powered copilot to analyze financial records, perform audit procedures, and draft documentation with 10x efficiency. If you’re an auditor, get in touch at [goagentive.com](http://goagentive.com)!\n\n**Problem**\n\nAudit staff spend 40% of their time searching, extracting, and manipulating data during audit procedures. And another 20% is spent preparing audit documentation. While it’s gotten easier to work with evidence provided by clients over the years thanks to OCR and other semi-automation solutions, it’s still painful. These audit procedures are rather standardized across clients and documentation is often identical year over year at the same client with only the current year data changing. The desire of audit staff to be involved in audit strategy is often in conflict with the amount of manual work that needs to be done at firms. This contributes to the high turnover in audit staff and the shortage of accountants entering the profession.\n\n**Team**\n\nWhile working as an auditor at EY, Danny Alberson felt underutilized due to the repetitive work involved in auditing. Nathan Turnbow, co-founder and CTO, built the first AI-powered education platform at Imagine Learning and honed his risk expertise as a cyber security engineer at Dell. Jason Draper, technical co-founder, led teams as an officer in the US Air Force and is a second time founder. Together, they're building Agentive to help auditors automate procedures and spend more time on audit strategy.\n\n**Solution**\n\nAgentive addresses this challenge by training large language models that cater to accounting and audit use cases. Agentive provides an in-browser spreadsheet editor and document viewer where auditors use natural language to have Agentive’s copilot analyze evidence, perform procedures, and draft documentation with 10x efficiency. It’s like working with ChatGPT during your audit. To review AI generated data we make it really easy to trace results back to their source. This not only speeds up preparing documents by audit staff but increases the efficiency of management and partner reviews as well.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72821&key=user_uploads/1097859/d436827f-1dd3-4314-a1d3-af9f37364114)\n\n**What can you use Copilot for?**\n\n1. **Extracting Text/Tables**: Extract text and data from documents like PDFs which can then be analyzed or moved to spreadsheets or workpapers for further processing.\n2. **Compliance Checking**: Analyze the content of documents to check compliance with various regulations, standards, or policies, and provide reports detailing any areas of non-compliance.\n3. **Content Search and Retrieval**: Enables auditors to conduct advanced content searches within documents, including searching for specific phrases, keywords, or patterns and retrieving relevant sections.\n4. **Natural Language Querying**: Simplify data retrieval by extracting information from spreadsheets using natural language queries without complex formulas.\n5. **Reconciliations**: Validate data within documents by cross-referencing it with other sources, such as spreadsheets, and highlight any discrepancies that require further investigation.\n6. **Natural Language Summarization:** Automatically generate concise written summaries of financial data in spreadsheets, helping auditors quickly comprehend key insights without digging through raw data.\n\n**Ask**\n\nWe’d love to connect with auditors! 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Teams leverage AI through VectorShift’s no-code interface to search through knowledge bases, automate workflows, and deploy AI chatbots and assistants without needing to code or having knowledge about AI. \n\n\n\n**VectorShift Platform**\n\nThrough drag-and-drop components, VectorShift’s no-code builder allows you to: \n\n* Use a flexible “visual programming language” to prototype, build, deploy, and manage LLM apps.\n* Allow AI workflows to leverage a knowledge base with your data (e.g., files, documents, website). Knowledge bases can live-sync with your data wherever it sits (e.g., Google Drive, OneDirve, Notion, etc.).\n* Define triggers that automatically run workflows (e.g., Slack message / Email) and allow workflows to perform actions (e.g., write a notion document).\n* Place interfaces on workflows that you build (e.g., chat, forms, search engine, bulk runs, voice, etc.).\n* Maintain enterprise-grade security - VectorShift is SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, and HIPPA compliant.\n\n \n\n**Enterprise Search Product Launch**\n\nToday, VectorShift launches its unified Enterprise search product. Connect to all your team’s tools (e.g., Google Drive, Notion, Slack) for a single place to securely search/chat with your documents. \n\nWith VectorShift, you can:\n\n1. Choose your preferred LLM model provider or leverage your own.\n2. Live-sync with your data wherever it sits. VectorShift will automatically transform, optimize, and enhance your data based on source and type (e.g., PDFs, tabular data, images, etc.) to significantly improve retrieval accuracy.\n3. Granularly site all answers generated by AI with 1) document source/type, 2) chunks used, and 3) page numbers/sheet names. \n4. Utilize advanced retrieval methods - e.g., re-ranking, hybrid search, advanced data extraction/processing models, metadata filtering, and query optimization. \n5. Leverage enterprise-grade permissioning to deploy the AI search engine directly to your organization.\n\nStep 1: After connecting all your data in a knowledge base, fully customize the interface with your branding. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84731&key=user_uploads/1325592/1a4c3232-6a32-49a9-96d9-de20ec7fe607)\n\nStep 2: Securely search and ask questions to all your data in one place.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84731&key=user_uploads/1325592/b4524000-2cd5-4b3e-9d70-ad9ea4f2f019)\n\nStep 3: Deep dive into results by chatting with retrieved documents. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84731&key=user_uploads/1325592/26f8cf49-4011-44e0-a24c-d731890cd384)\n\n**About Us:**\n\nAlex Leonardi: BA/MS in Statistics & Computer Science from Harvard. 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We provide hands-on support in identifying, building, and deploying AI solutions.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M2d-vectorshift-no-code-ai-automations-platform", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-10-16T11:23:50.769Z" }, { "id": 80383, "title": "VectorShift: No-code generative AI platform", "tagline": "Build AI assistants and workflow automations in no-code", "body": "[VectorShift](http://www.vectorshift.ai/) is a no-code generative AI platform. Teams leverage AI through VectorShift’s no-code interface to search through knowledge bases, automate workflows, and deploy AI chatbots and assistants without needing to code or having knowledge about AI. \n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t18ySXNDYvs)\n\n**VectorShift Platform**\n\nThrough drag-and-drop components, VectorShift’s no-code builder allows you to: \n\n* Use a flexible visual programming language to prototype, build, deploy, and manage LLM apps.\n* Allow AI workflows to leverage a knowledge base with your data (e.g., files, documents, website). Knowledge bases live-sync with data across your tools (e.g., Google Drive, OneDrive, Notion, etc.).\n* Define triggers that automatically run workflows (e.g., Slack message) and allow workflows to perform actions (e.g., write a notion document).\n\nHundreds of companies across healthcare, finance, technology, education, logistics, and professional services already use VectorShift in production. Here are some real-life examples: \n\n* Startups (including multiple YC startups!) use VectorShift to power the “backend” of their **AI product features**.\n* A European conglomerate uses VectorShift to **automate report writing** for clients.\n* A professional services firm for the US government uses VectorShift to **automate RFP proposals** and **search through their contract library** to answer queries.\n* A healthcare education company uses VectorShift to create a **chatbot** to answer patient questions leveraging their extensive knowledge base.\n* A large technology company built an **internal support assistant** to answer questions about employee policies\n\nAnd much more…\n\nOther use cases our customers have in production: document analysis at scale, scraping internet data, content creation, and automatically sending personalized outbound emails.  \n\n**Chat / Assistant Interface Product Launch**\n\nIn building our no-code builder, users requested a way to place interfaces on workflows so they can automate workflows end to end. Today, we are launching VectorShift’s assistant product!\n\nStep 1: After building an AI workflow, place a chat / AI assistant-style interface in your workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80383&key=user_uploads/1325592/7dc154c9-2642-41f4-8342-43b5cf74590f)\n\nStep 2: Fully customize the interface with your branding to share chat assistants internally or export to end-users / clients via URL, iFrame, Whatsapp / SMS, API, or as a Slack bot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80383&key=user_uploads/1325592/7c67a1e3-e464-410d-ac95-6c8352cc110d)\n\nStep 3: Manage your production app by viewing collected data and analytics.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80383&key=user_uploads/1325592/73cbd04f-6fc2-4f81-b794-b086a3af5e62)\n\n**About Us:**\n\nAlex Leonardi: BA/MS in Statistics & Computer Science from Harvard. Previously, he was a Private Equity Data Science Analyst at Blackstone, where he deployed AI/ML solutions for portfolio companies and helped establish Blackstone's perspectives and capabilities surrounding Generative AI.\n\nAlbert Mao: BA in Statistics at Harvard. Albert worked at McKinsey where he helped Fortune 500 organizations digitally transform along with revamping the GTM motions and products of multiple enterprise software companies. \n\n**The Ask:**\n\n* Try VectorShift: \n* If you are interested in discussing this further, book a demo here: . We provide hands-on support in identifying, building, and deploying AI solutions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80383&key=user_uploads/1325592/393b980e-d835-4fbc-aee9-1ab57672b0e3)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KuV-vectorshift-no-code-generative-ai-platform", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-04-24T14:55:24.660Z" }, { "id": 77798, "title": "VectorShift - The AI Automation Platform", "tagline": "Leverage AI in building automated workflows in a no-code interface or through a Python SDK.", "body": "[VectorShift](http://www.vectorshift.ai/) is an AI automation platform. Teams leverage AI through VectorShift’s no-code interface or Python SDK to search through knowledge bases, generate documents, and deploy chatbots and assistants. We give all organizations the ability to build enterprise-grade AI applications.\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWS0uj-ed8U)\n\n# **VectorShift Platform**\n\nThrough drag-and-drop components, our no-code builder allows you to: \n\n* Connect different nodes like LLMs, data loaders, vector databases, and more.\n* Create a knowledge base of your data (e.g., CRM, Notion database, files) or live sync with your data sources to leverage within AI pipelines.\n* Create automations that trigger the running of pipelines (e.g., Slack message / Email) and allow pipelines to perform actions (e.g., write a notion document).\n* Deploy your pipeline through a chat interface with just a few clicks. Share chat assistants internally, or export to end-users via URL, WhatsApp / SMS, or API.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77798&key=user_uploads/1325592/3a8a510a-c672-49cb-82a6-4182d368295d)\n\n# **What are real examples of companies using VectorShift in production?**\n\n* A startup uses VectorShift to power the “backend” of their **AI product features**.\n* A European conglomerate uses VectorShift to **automate report writing** for clients.\n* A professional services firm for the US government uses VectorShift to **automate sales proposals** and **search through their contract library** to answer queries.\n* A healthcare education company uses VectorShift to create a **chatbot** to answer patient questions leveraging their extensive knowledge base.\n* A large technology company built an **internal support assistant** to answer questions about employee policies.\n\nAnd much more…\n\nTo name a few: document analysis, scoring resumes, drafting patents and legal documents, and automatically sending personalized outbound emails.  \n\n# **Python SDK Launch**\n\nIn building our initial product line, users requested a way to interface with our platform through code, so we’ve built a Python SDK for working with our various product lines. Now, you can access functionality present in our no-code platform directly through your IDE. Using the SDK, you can:\n\n* Fetch, edit, save, and run your pipelines and chatbots. Run your AI workflows and use your preferred version-control system to work with your VectorShift-managed AI pipelines in code.\n* Load and query your vector stores, and add new indices to index your data.\n* Work with any connected integrations, like Notion, OneDrive, Slack, etc.\n\nAny changes you save through the SDK will automatically update in the no-code platform so you can enjoy complete interoperability between the two interfaces. You can view the documentation for our SDK here: \n\n# **About Us:**\n\n[Alex Leonardi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderleonardi/): BA/MS in Statistics & Computer Science from Harvard. Previously Private Equity Data Science Analyst at Blackstone, where he deployed AI/ML solutions for portfolio companies and helped establish Blackstone's perspectives and capabilities surrounding Generative AI.\n\n[Albert Mao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-mao-8b263aa2/): BA in Statistics at Harvard. Albert worked at McKinsey where he helped Fortune 500 organizations digitally transform along with revamping the GTM motions and products of multiple enterprise software companies. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77798&key=user_uploads/1325592/2f4a1481-ae88-43b8-b699-bc48a0f70ff2)\n\n# **The Ask:**\n\n* Try VectorShift: \n* If you are interested in discussing further, book a demo with us here: . We are always happy to help iterate with you on use cases!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KEo-vectorshift-the-ai-automation-platform", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-01-24T14:40:19.860Z" }, { "id": 73759, "title": "VectorShift: No-code LLM workflow builder", "tagline": "We let you design, integrate, and deploy internal LLM tools in minutes", "body": "[VectorShift](http://www.vectorshift.ai/) is a no-code platform that lets teams quickly create AI workflows. Enterprises use us to build internal tools to generate marketing copy, proposals, and RFP responses. Startup teams use us to automate workflows such as writing personalized emails and deploying chatbots.\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKhVKJGOqDM&ab_channel=AlbertMao)\n\n**Introduction**\n\nThis is [Alex Leonardi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderleonardi/) and [Albert Mao](https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-mao-8b263aa2/) - we studied CS and statistics together at Harvard and previously, we grew a business >200% Y/Y to 7 figures as CEO and CRO. During that time, we realized that our sales reps were spending more than half their time 1) writing proposals, 2) writing personalized outreach emails, and 3) researching prospects. If we could automate these workflows, we would be able to reach more leads and grow faster!\n\nHowever, there was no way to build these custom generative AI workflows at scale, meaning that we had to build all of our tooling from scratch. That's why we built VectorShift - it is what we wished we had when running our previous business.\n\n**VectorShift Platform**\n\nOur platform’s core features include:\n\n* **Pipeline Builder:** Connect different nodes like LLMs, data loaders, vector databases, and more.\n* **File Handling:** Pass files as inputs and save them as outputs while using pipeline nodes to parse their meaning.\n* **Deployment Acceleration:** A marketplace of pre-built workflows, easily customizable for your needs.\n* **Reusable Components:** Use previous pipelines as nodes in new ones, allowing quick reuse of existing functionality.\n* **Chatbot Creation:** Convert any pipeline into a Chatbot with just a few clicks.\n* **API Integration:** Run pipelines and chatbots easily with API calls.\n* **Public Marketplace:** Run pipelines that other users have already refined, and publish your own pipelines for others to use.\n\nOur pipeline builder allows the user to quickly connect different components needed in a generative AI workflow. For example, sales reps use VectorShift to replicate the logic they use to write account proposals and reclaim hours of time every day.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9Tn6V3lthGLkz2zdpQWlkiSt2CRQpVJXdB8dNREiJhl81zIsMhGwx7EQhMP3Wy5YqGeW9QE3n0Sn2zzw0jyVsYRVKmUhnkNl6oI37RuxWOBCZYNX7NtJX-hzqrXlAtlHKk9vUD2Laod0fiGa8z5RNXw)\n\nIn addition to providing the building blocks of building any generative AI workflow, we further accelerate the deployment process by offering a marketplace of pre-built workflows. Want a pipeline that generates personalized emails? We already have one built for you to modify to your liking. \n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_TH3ixjhoNzuK5EyaDje9ZHVauXOOvSB4BeUTj2GJq_UIQqjlSG1y7Ang05A5rIxm9y05emBo4IhQHD5pj7QZJfDp2oDsM7qtTGXIgLTlDhLoV806oUMNvUmAqlr9VKD854q2SBiJjMcKisdpRxF62w)\n\n**About Us:**\n\nAlex Leonardi: BA/MS in Statistics & Computer Science from Harvard. Previously Private Equity Data Science Analyst at Blackstone, where he deployed AI/ML solutions for portfolio companies and helped establish Blackstone's perspectives and capabilities surrounding Generative AI.\n\nAlbert Mao: BA in Statistics at Harvard. Albert worked at McKinsey where he helped Fortune 500 organizations digitally transform along with revamping the GTM motions and products of multiple enterprise software companies.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/f6DnmkT0xpTnl7giTjYMudF1rSwAsHDIkmTow46kXAe3OzltO0z_MFNG0_AMCd1BfgDOOfwR4yXzdhUioBdi5OHV4ii7KCeZpW_okkP_UfgUQ4ikpmAv7pRXJ1TVX8XNuQYsPHBOTVh5IQkei7O7Vro)\n\n**The Ask:**\n\n* Try VectorShift for free: \n* If you are interested in discussing further, book a demo here: . We are happy to help iterate with you on potential use cases!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JBf-vectorshift-no-code-llm-workflow-builder", "votes": 157, "created_at": "2023-08-03T15:10:51.548Z" } ] }, { "id": 29090, "name": "Trayd", "slug": "trayd", "former_names": [ "Trayd", "TRAYD" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0a9f2865966789c4edf9a5fb78aced71bf8c4d9.png", "website": "https://www.buildtrayd.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Trayd is building the operating system for commercial construction: payroll, compliance, and back office workflows that actually work in the real world.\r\n\r\nConstruction is one of the biggest industries in North America (valued at $2T+), and it still runs on a messy mix of spreadsheets, legacy payroll providers, and manual processes that break the moment things get even slightly complex. The people doing the work are the hardest working people in the country, and the companies running crews are forced to spend hours every week fighting systems that were never built for them.\r\n\r\nWe’re changing that.\r\n\r\nTrayd started with a simple promise: construction workers should be able to access the money they already earned faster, and subcontractors should be able to run payroll without chaos. Today, we’re building deeper infrastructure across payroll, union rules, job costing, and accounting workflows so our customers can run their businesses with confidence.", "one_liner": "A construction payroll and compliance platform built for specialty…", "team_size": 34, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1689535318, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Construction", "Proptech", "Payroll" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trayd", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/trayd.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/buildtraydllc/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0a9f2865966789c4edf9a5fb78aced71bf8c4d9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/8ab43a4fd37381a69b78afd386d10c31228ad8b1.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/bc79befc735df674406e2a70a6fc00c93c7888f9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1435469, "full_name": "Anna Berger", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2x founder | product and growth hacker \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/anna-berger-39497a72", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/annajberger3?s=21", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f5dba3384ee3eaa3075442c0f45ba9d4b75082f7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1434148, "full_name": "Cara Kessler", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/carakessler", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/522fecb28f766d740937d735a8839bb520912153.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 89198, "title": "Senior Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trayd/jobs/1Ez3l4b-senior-software-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$200K - 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For commercial real estate subcontractors, Trayd generates back office efficiencies with a platform that manages workforce attendance and payroll. For workers, Trayd offers instant access to their earned wages. Win-Win.\n\nWe are Anna Berger and Cara Kessler, the team behind @Trayd and we are on a mission to digitize construction payroll in order to power a better financial future for subcontractors and their workers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/811e72a1-0fc1-4b73-ab24-27b7ed95567f)\n\n### 🚨**Problem**🚨\n\nWithin commercial real estate, demand for work is at an all-time high. In the last year, total construction spend in New York City reached $86BN and it keeps on climbing. That said, construction subcontractors are ill-equipped to handle the influx of work, with only 17% of them using digital tools to manage their back office. This lack of tech adoption is leading to work stoppages and high attrition, resulting in major revenue loss.\n\nTo make matters worse, construction employment still lags behind pre-covid levels. Of those that remain, highly skilled workers are choosing to leave the trades in search of more control over their cash flow, for example, gig economy jobs that allow them to work when they want and get paid instantly.\n\n### **🏗️ Our Solution** 🏗️\n\nTrayd is new type of construction payroll platform, designed to incentivize all key players. Through a closed loop system, Trayd tracks workers’ daily attendance in order to power real-time payroll automation. By merging time and payroll data into one system, subcontractors save tens of hours a week on manual back office work. As an added bonus, because Trayd authenticates attendance in real-time, Trayd can offer instant payment options to the workforce.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/5ed2d168-f70d-4752-b949-09d093ba8d81)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/92cdb561-b705-4aca-9ce1-c33f875435b9)\n\n### 📖 **The Backstory** 📖\n\nBorn into a construction family and close to the problems that plague subcontractors and workers on a daily basis, our team is excited to modernize construction back office operations while simultaneously offering financial tools and opportunities to subcontractors and workers.\n\n### **Asks 🙏**\n\n* Know anyone in the construction industry? We’d love to speak to any general contractors, subcontractors, construction workers, or developers about their day-to-day experiences. Send any leads to [anna@buildtrayd.com](mailto:anna@buildtrayd.com)\n* Follow along on our journey! → \n\nIf you have any questions, reach out! We’d love to hear from you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J4y-trayd-construction-payroll-designed-for-same-day-pay", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-07-24T15:14:09.940Z" } ] }, { "id": 29092, "name": "dili", "slug": "dili", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9e905bd15e69e145959bbab0b2b161c61c3dd16c.png", "website": "https://www.dili.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Dili (YC S23) is building the most reliable AI automation for compliance in real-world industries.\r\n\r\nAcross energy, infrastructure, datacenters, advanced manufacturing, and construction, Dili has run prevailing wage, apprenticeship, & other labor compliance to help customers secure over $1 billion in federal funding.\r\n\r\nDili is building the AI system of record to help physical industries track compliance, analyze labor and spend, run payroll, and more. 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We had a big month at Dili with +210% revenue growth MoM, and we wanted to publicly share how Dili can improve underwriting and investment outcomes for our customers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82651&key=user_uploads/312266/5c9775a5-577f-46a8-b175-df7c53aa86e7)\n\n**🧨 The Problem: Due Diligence is time-consuming, prone to human error, and today’s AI is not equipped to handle these mission-critical workflows**\\\n\\\nDue diligence today can mean spending weeks digging up data in datarooms using your domain-specific knowledge and presenting findings in memos to make multi-million-dollar investment decisions. All of this work is manual, time-consuming, and very often prone to human error. There are several cases where it is not feasible to have a human sift through 100’s of documents to find the red flag buried deep in the data room. Today’s AI models are not accurate enough to assist with mission-critical use cases like underwriting $60M+ tax credit transactions, $100M+ loan & lease abstraction, deal screening, and drafting investment memos.\\\n\\\n**🧿 The Solution: Dili’s AI Platform reads every file to generate relevant reports - with confidence scores.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82651&key=user_uploads/312266/a75b94cc-08d8-475d-87eb-2722f0f2ff4b)\n\nDili is built to be the most reliable platform for automating diligence and portfolio management workflows. It can read every file in a dataroom and provide reports with confidence scores on every output so you know when something needs your attention. Using the in-app file viewer, you can inspect sources directly with text highlighted.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82651&key=user_uploads/312266/1ce274aa-4733-4e59-aca9-d9275250bac9)\n\nFirms can now tune Dili using their domain knowledge and instructions to fit their custom templates, reports, and SOPs. Using this fine-tuned expertise, Dili has found and fixed critical red flags and human errors on several multi-million dollar transactions across 3000+ deals.\n\n**Dili has been used to automate:**\n\n✅ **Tax credit** diligence to validate credits and underwrite risk on transactions\n\n✅ **Real estate** OM screening, loan, and lease abstraction\n\n✅ **Private Equity and Private Credit** deal screening and DD checklists\n\n✅ **VC** portfolio monitoring and drafting investment memos\n\n\n\n### **👋 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* If you are involved in tax credit, real estate, or private credit/PE transactions, we’d love to share how Dili can help you. Book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/anand-dili-ai/30min).\n* Follow along on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dili-ai/) & [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dili_ai)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LV5-dili-the-most-reliable-ai-for-diligence-on-high-stakes-deals", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-08-01T19:01:58.230Z" }, { "id": 73138, "title": "🧿 Dili: Accelerating due diligence with AI", "tagline": "Dili is the newest analyst on your deal team - who lets you complete due diligence in hours, not weeks.", "body": "**_Tl;dr:_** _Dili is an AI platform that accelerates manual tasks involved in the due diligence process for both buy- and sell- side deal teams. We make it easier for the buy-side (PE/VC funds) to invest in and buy companies, and for the sell-side to streamline due diligence processes for capital raises or M&A. Dili helps you make data-driven investment decisions through due diligence - from understanding the deal dataroom, leveraging your firm’s internal knowledge, to crafting investment deal materials. _[_Contact us here_](https://www.diliai.com/)_._\n\n\\\nHi everyone, we are Stephanie, Brian, and Anand - the co-founders of Dili! After working together at Coinbase, we decided to take on the challenge of making the due diligence process for capital markets more efficient for both buy-side and sell-side deal teams.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73138&key=user_uploads/312266/1392cf6c-9a41-45c9-b07c-eba28b21eb7b)\n\n### **🧨 The Problem: Due diligence is a time-consuming, manual process that is required for doing deals**\n\nStephanie (CEO, Co-founder) spent years working in investment banking, corporate development, and venture capital doing over $500m+ in deal volume. Her job consisted of several hours a day of tedious, manual tasks and workflows while conducting due diligence on deals. Today, due diligence means spending weeks or months carefully reading through company datarooms, digging up data across internal tribal knowledge & external sources, and analyzing or presenting findings in memos to make million dollar investment decisions.\n\nThis time-consuming, manual process means investors see fewer deals per year - and cannot dive deep enough on thorough due diligence for each deal. (i.e., JP Morgan’s recent acquisition of Frank!)\n\n### **🧿 The Solution: Dili’s AI platform that helps you make better investment decisions**\n\nDili is an LLM-powered platform that creates insights and analyses for investors which sits on top of 3 sources of data: 1.) the dataroom from the company you are doing due diligence on, 2.) a custom built structured internal knowledge database for your unstructured data, 3.) data integrations from your favorite external partners. Our solution helps you conduct data-driven due diligence because it improves the quality of due diligence conducted. LLMs run on top of all available internal and external data to provide you with better analyis and insights, making it 5x faster by automating the most manual parts of the process.\n\nImagine a new deal comes across your desk - you can use Dili to deeply **understand the information in a dataroom**, automatically find anomalies or red flags, and instantly calculate financial metrics/models.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73138&key=user_uploads/312266/c0e1c5c7-e38b-4a87-909f-5e11f7c9cb65)\n\nIf you wish to proceed with the deal - Dili structures and searches through your firm’s **internal knowledge base** as well as **external sources** (Pitchbook, Crunchbase, Tegus, LinkedIn etc.) to provide comprehensive comparables analysis and dashboard metrics for each new deal.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73138&key=user_uploads/312266/20b06589-6dbf-4335-b6dd-a4038b83a363)\n\nFinally, as you are coming to a thesis and writing an investment memo - Dili can put together a **first-cut memo / deal packet in minutes**, not days.\n\nUsing Dili, **PE & VC Firms**:\n\n✅ Conduct a due diligence deep dive on several more companies per year\n\n✅ Catch red flags early during due diligence (like Frank’s list of fake usernames) to potentially save millions\n\n✅ Search through a database of every company your firm has seen, to find comparables across your entire knowledge base\n\n✅ Get AI-enhanced insights to make better data-driven investment decisions\n\n### \n\n### **👋 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* If you’re an **investor** looking to improve your due diligence process, we’d love to share how Dili can help you. [Book a demo here.](https://calendly.com/steph_dili/30min)\n* If you are a **startup** planning to fundraise soon, we could help make this process easier. [Contact us here.](https://mailto:sales@diliai.com?subject=Connecting%20you%20to%20Dili)\n* Please share this post, and follow along on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dili-ai/) & [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dili_ai)! 🧿", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1e-dili-accelerating-due-diligence-with-ai", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2023-07-17T15:57:36.172Z" } ] }, { "id": 29276, "name": "Carousel Technologies", "slug": "carousel-technologies", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be51ba4d9e1b18ab8424b80f2db46f49c4a22fa9.png", "website": "https://usecarousel.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Carousel is an AI assistant for Excel that builds spreadsheets & models in minutes, not hours.\r\n\r\nCarousel can:\r\n\r\n- Create & edit Excel models of any complexity, including but not limited to: multi-statement financial models with several tabs, FP&A templates based on raw revenue and cost data, scientific data analyses, and more\r\n\r\n- Take in data from PDFs, CSVs, presentations, and images, and build the data into your Excel directly\r\n\r\n- Walk you through complex spreadsheet architecture and each cell's precedents and dependents\r\n\r\n- Format your models tastefully & professionally\r\n\r\n- Build chart dashboards to visualize your data\r\n\r\nIt's more useful than the last intern you hired.", "one_liner": "AI Assistant for Excel", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1707782877, "tags": [ "Finance", "B2B", "Enterprise Software" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/carousel-technologies", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/carousel-technologies.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/carousel-tech/", "x_url": "https://www.x.com/usecarousel", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/be51ba4d9e1b18ab8424b80f2db46f49c4a22fa9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 857855, "full_name": "Daniel Wolf", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Making spreadsheets less painful", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-wolf-6242431b1", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e0b96012bc90a1f87b8fe13bbac44dc2fb61fc7b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1640043, "full_name": "Jude Rizzo", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder @ Carousel, former math/physics student", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jude-rizzo-aa71aa207", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5fa048f3dea7a5876f83fb4763983b502644221e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90376, "title": "🧮⚡ Carousel: The AI Assistant For Excel", "tagline": "Build Excel models in minutes, not hours.", "body": "Hi YC! We're Jude & Daniel, and we’ve built Carousel - an AI assistant that transforms how people work in Excel.\n\n# **The Problem: Excel is Powerful but Painful**\n\nExcel remains the universal language of business despite being:\n\n* **Time-consuming**: Building models takes hours of manual work\n* **Error-prone**: Manual data entry and complex formulas lead to mistakes\n* **Intimidating**: Mastering Excel formulas takes years\n\nProfessionals spend countless hours battling spreadsheets instead of focusing on decision-making.\n\n# **Our Solution: Your Personal Excel Intern**\n\nCarousel is an AI assistant that builds spreadsheets & models in minutes, not hours. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_MWw1lMrzQ\n\nWe've built four core features:\n\n**🤖 Carousel Chat** - Build complete multi-tab models from scratch with conversational prompts. No Excel expertise required. [Models that took hours to spin up now take minutes.](https://youtu.be/dQJbqbEJIiY)\n\n**⚡ Quick Fix** - Select any range, hit Ctrl+Enter, and describe what you want. [Format tables, add analytics, or restructure data instantly.](https://youtu.be/BeXluYKKArM)\n\n**🔍 Model Walkthrough** - Understand complex formulas in plain English. [Model Walkthrough rewrites formulas by swapping cell references like S&U_Sheet!K7 with Transaction Closing Costs (4%).](https://youtu.be/sG3s4Bz1sM0)\n\n**📄 File Context** - Stop doing manual data entry. [Carousel pulls information from your documents and puts them into your Excel file live, complete with automatic source citations.](https://youtu.be/jDx9lNbgLMk)\n\nUnlike your last intern, Carousel is competent, doesn’t complain when asked to fix spreadsheet formatting, and doesn’t need a return offer.\n\nCarousel is what Microsoft’s Copilot for Excel promised to be.\n\n# **Who's It Made For?**\n\nCarousel is designed for anyone who spends significant time in Excel:\n\n* **Financial analysts** building complex financial models\n* **Marketing managers** analyzing campaign performance data\n* **Operations leaders** creating forecasts and tracking KPIs\n* **Product managers** organizing feature roadmaps\n* **Scientists** analyzing experimental data\n* **Consultants** preparing client deliverables\n\n# **Why We Made Carousel**\n\nExcel hasn't fundamentally changed in decades, yet it remains central to how teams & businesses operate. \n\nWe built Carousel to bridge the gap between Excel's insane professional capabilities and its usability challenges.\n\n# **Try Carousel Today**\n\nOur open beta starts today for both individuals and enterprise teams. We'd love your feedback!\n\nIf you spend more than 10 hours a week in Excel or know someone who does, we'd love to chat: [founders@usecarousel.com](mailto:founders@usecarousel.com)\n\n[**www.usecarousel.com**](http://www.usecarousel.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90376&key=user_uploads/857855/84e41b9e-92f3-41a5-b916-bf73501e30ba)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NVg-carousel-the-ai-assistant-for-excel", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-05-14T00:15:47.757Z" }, { "id": 78887, "title": "📊 👀 Carousel: Track changes for PowerPoint & Excel", "tagline": "Making it easier to review deliverables with high-fidelity change tracking", "body": "Hi! We’re [Jude](https://linkedin.com/in/jude-rizzo-aa71aa207) & [Daniel](https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-wolf-6242431b1), and we’re the co-creators of [Carousel](https://www.carouseltech.io/), a change-tracking tool for PowerPoint & Excel.\n\n \n\n**Investment bankers & consultants don’t use PowerPoint like you do:**\n\nFor most investment banking or consulting projects, the final deliverable is a PowerPoint deck.\n\n \n\nTo make sure the final draft of that deck is perfect, it goes through multiple rounds of review, feedback, & edits.\n\n \n\nThis means that many bankers and consultants spend hours squinting at different decks to see if the footnote on pg. 57 was updated correctly or if all the companies in a table on pg. 34 have uniform EBITDA adjustments.\n\n \n\nSmall details matter a lot, so teams often have to check over hundred-page decks from scratch. 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Before Clarum, he worked on blockchain infrastructure at Mint and led augmented reality product development at EPHAS, an Ericsson One startup. He also enjoys marathon running.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/antonotaner", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/antonotaner", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bc1f50b72e714ff58e401347d7b1acb92bd419dd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator Startups That Could Be The Next Tech Unicorns", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/06/04/y-combinator-startups-that-could-be-the-next-tech-unicorns/", "date": "Jun 04, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 89583, "title": "Clarum - Your AI Associate for Private Equity Due Diligence", "tagline": "Investment due diligence and research that works with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.", "body": "Hi everyone,\n\nWe’re [Anton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonotaner/) and [Tommy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyhe6/), co-founders of **Clarum**.\n\nHere’s a short demo video showing how it works:\n\n📽 \n\n### **TL;DR**\n\n**Clarum is the AI associate for private equity due diligence and research.**\n\nClarum works directly with _Excel, Word, and PowerPoint_ to structure financials, extract deal terms, and analyze data—without requiring teams to change tools or workflows. Firms use Clarum to speed up deal evaluation, reduce errors, and improve risk visibility across their pipeline.\n\n### ❌ **The Problem**\n\nPrivate equity diligence is still manual—making it hard to assess risk quickly across large data rooms and short timelines.\n\nDespite growing deal volume and increasing data complexity, teams still rely on fragmented workflows across _Excel, Word, and PowerPoint_. It’s slow, repetitive, and difficult to scale—especially when consistency, speed, and accuracy are critical.\n\n### 🛠️ **Our Solution**\n\nClarum connects to your data and analyzes deal materials with _Excel, Word, and PowerPoint_, using AI to automate key parts of the diligence workflow. We tailor Clarum to your specific processes, so results appear in your familiar environment and formats — _no new tool to learn_.\n\nFirms use Clarum to:\n\n* 📄 **Generate screening memos**\n* 📊 **Build returns analyses and models**\n* 📈 **Create deep-dive slide decks**\n* 📉 **Reconcile income statements and chart financials**\n* 📚 **Summarize CIMs and legal documents**\n* 🚨 **Flag inconsistencies across files**\n* 📎 **Compare and benchmark deals**\n* 🗂️ **Categorize and summarize data room contents**\n\n_The result: faster deal cycles, cleaner outputs, and stronger confidence heading into IC—without changing how teams work today._\n\n---\n\n### **The Ask**\n\nIf you are or know:\n\n1. **Managing Partner / Head of Family Office** who believes AI and automation are critical for building long-term operational leverage.\n2. **Principal / Investment Director at a LMM PE firm or Family Office** looking to scale analytical output and automate diligence—without changing the tools the team already uses.\n3. **CIO / Head of Investments** exploring how AI can enhance risk assessment and portfolio insights without adding technical overhead.\n4. **VP / Senior Associate** aiming to reduce manual data work and focus more time on high-impact analysis.\n\nWe’d love to help.\n\n👉 [**Book a demo at clarum.ai**](https://clarum.ai/contact?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch-2)\n\n📬 You can also reach us directly at [contact@clarum.ai](mailto:contact@clarum.ai).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89583&key=user_uploads/1524877/8eb3444c-3a7b-4ef8-ac0d-421df1bb95d5)\n\nThanks for reading. Looking forward to connecting.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NIt-clarum-your-ai-associate-for-private-equity-due-diligence", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-04-22T13:36:47.110Z" }, { "id": 79333, "title": "Clarum: AI-powered due diligence", "tagline": "Clarum helps private equity firms close more deals by conducting accelerated and reliable due diligence.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Anton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonotaner/) and [Tommy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommyhe6/) and we’re building [Clarum](https://clarum.ai/?utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch).\n\n**tldr;** Clarum helps private equity firms close more deals by conducting quicker due diligence with AI. For example, firms can import files from their data room to get answers to hundreds of questions in minutes. [Book a demo](https://clarum.ai/demo?utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch) with us!\n\n### **Problem**\n\nDuring deal flow, due diligence is a significant challenge for investors due to the need to **quickly process large volumes of disorganized data within tight deadlines**. The mental and emotional toll is significant, especially when dealing with high-stakes transactions worth millions, where mistakes can cost jobs. Private equity firms risk losing deals or being outbid if they don't conduct due diligence efficiently enough. Finding information and answering questions should be quick, easy, and reliable.\n\n### **Clarum is here**\n\nClarum provides AI-powered due diligence solutions that enable fast, transparent, and reliable insights from your entire data repository, for more data-driven processes.\n\nUsing Clarum takes minutes to set up.\n\n1. Import your data from your VDR, shared drive, or local computer.\n2. Upload an existing due diligence questionnaire.\n3. Watch Clarum answer 100s of questions with full transparency in minutes.\n\nHere’s what Clarum can do:\n\n**Reliable and traceable answers -** Answer questions using your entire knowledge base, where every number or sentence is linked back to its source document for full traceability.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79333&key=user_uploads/1524877/df101c73-a679-4a78-8f56-395da9a45d46)\n\n**All your data in one place -** Quickly import data from various sources, including VDRs, shared drives, and local files.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79333&key=user_uploads/1524877/24f66946-a567-4d48-ad4f-d53235527346)\n\n**Quantifiable insights from qualitative data -** Answer hundreds of questions from due diligence questionnaires in minutes instead of weeks. Generate follow-up questions and RFIs from the missing information.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79333&key=user_uploads/1524877/e29484d8-8561-4f85-b647-0ad0d51796bb)\n\n**Find critical data -** Intelligently search for information from all your sources. Find a chart from a PDF, a table from a spreadsheet, or a critical number from a presentation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79333&key=user_uploads/1524877/75217982-44fa-4faf-938c-627d903b594b)\n\nAll of this leads to a quicker time-to-insight, giving PE firms using Clarum a competitive advantage.\n\n### **Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79333&key=user_uploads/1524877/9d56a75e-8694-4e63-8cca-0a3168762c63)\n\nAnton Otaner and Tommy He met via a mutual friend at McGill University. They knew that they would be a great team after they won first place in their university’s hackathon and after many late nights working together.\n\nBefore Clarum, Anton was a blockchain engineer at Mint where he worked on scalable blockchain solutions to secure gated content. He enjoys tackling challenging situations; for instance, he ran 84 km in a snowstorm with a broken arm. Tommy worked on low-latency market connections and trade execution at Tower Research Capital. Before that, he worked on the private intersection of knowledge graphs at Optable, an ad-tech startup.\n\nTheir background is rooted in a tech-first approach, tightly coupled with finance. By constantly keeping up to date and working with the latest technologies, they are convinced that due diligence could be accelerated with AI.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nWe are confident that we can accelerate your due diligence reliably using AI. If you know anyone working in private equity or wealth management who could benefit from Clarum, please [send them our way](https://mailto:anton@clarum.ai/).\n\nIf you are working in that industry, reach out to us at [contact@clarum.ai](mailto:contact@clarum.ai) or [book a call](https://clarum.ai/demo?utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KdZ-clarum-ai-powered-due-diligence", "votes": 79, "created_at": "2024-03-13T19:04:27.975Z" } ] }, { "id": 29640, "name": "Tabula", "slug": "tabula", "former_names": [ "Tabular" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/024093e1cf5ee62ecc6d67c4d8f74b230167a84b.png", "website": "https://www.tabula.de", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "We build autonomous accounting software. \r\n\r\nEvery company should have financial insights at a fingertip – not just big enterprises with dedicated finance teams. 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He previously worked on launching new financial services at the European fintech unicorn Trade Republic (backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, Creandum).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/markus-jungnickel", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/03443f18722e3a792402555a2e2f6e70f139c2d1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1616743, "full_name": "Kilian Justus", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Kilian has launched tax filing products in Italy and France as product manager at Taxfix (Index, TGV). He was employee #1 at genova.ai, a B2C AI product studio, and studied at Williams College and Oxford. 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This involves a range of tasks like classifying documents, determining VAT filings and selecting the correct booking accounts.\n\n# **Problem: manual work x acute labour shortage**\n\nOur customers use Tabular to save time on manual tasks, helping them address the acute labor shortage. Much of SMB accounting is still done by hand, but every second accounting firm has unfilled positions, causing them to lose out on revenue. Customers tell us they reject 5-10 new clients every week and have to drop existing ones whenever a bookkeeper retires. \n\n# **Why now? LLMs are a game changer for accounting**\n\nFor the first time, LLMs allow us to offer a step change in automation, reducing the time it takes to do an SMB’s book from hours to minutes. Previous generations of AI struggled with the highly variable and unstructured nature of SMB accounting data – but LLMs excel at precisely these tasks. Their ability to ingest large amounts of context about the nature of the business and transaction at hand, allows them to accurately reason through the many small accounting decisions required for every invoice. \n\n# **Solution: Accounting Autopilot**\n\nOur first product is an accounts payables autopilot sitting on top of incumbent accounting software.  Users bulk upload hundreds of invoices. We sort through the documents, analyse the tax situation, and generate finished bookings. After reviewing edge cases, users export the books with just one click. Our product is already saving time for accounting firms in Germany:\n\n> _As a modern firm, we need to use the most innovative software. Tabular saves us hours each week by automating split receipts and complex wholesaler invoices from the very first use._\n\n\\- Tim Kieserling from [HeyTax,](https://www.hey-tax.de/) a 40-person firm\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83192&key=user_uploads/1640667/c46a693c-a6ee-4713-be4c-d2dc69db050e)\n\n# **Team**\n\n[**Markus**](https://linkedin.com/in/markus-jungnickel) - studied Law & Business at Cambridge, where he graduated top of his class, and holds an MSc in Computing Science from Imperial College. He previously worked on launching new financial services at the European fintech unicorn [Trade Republic](https://traderepublic.com/en-de) (backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, Creandum).\n\n[**Kilian**](https://linkedin.com/in/kilian-j) - launched tax filing products in two new markets at [Taxfix](https://taxfix.de/en/) (Index, TGV) as a product manager and was employee #1 at [genova.ai](http://genova.ai), a B2C AI product studio. He studied at Williams College and Oxford.\n\n[**Tim**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-hermes/) - launched and scaled automation for the same customer group before. At Taxfix, he built the “[Tax Advisor Product Vertical”](https://taxfix.de/en/how-it-works/) as GPM from 0 to multiple million ARR in under 12 months, by automating income tax filing for tax advisors. Now, he has set out to automate accounting for them.\n\n# **Ask**\n\n* Join us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tabular-gmbh)\n* Connect us with German accounting firms and SMBs who are unhappy with their accounting setup\n* Reach out to us via email ([founders@gotabular.de](mailto:founders@gotabular.de))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ldo-tabular-ai-autopilot-for-accounting-firms", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-08-19T20:37:21.204Z" } ] }, { "id": 29702, "name": "LedgerUp", "slug": "ledgerup", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7300af84eef84e88a5fc2a972bbf576cb517a4cb.png", "website": "https://ledgerup.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "LedgerUp is your AI billing teammate for B2B SaaS, transforming contract-based billing from a chore into a frictionless, revenue-accelerating process. We parse contracts, issue invoices, and collect payments in real-time, all while surfacing actionable analytics, allowing your finance team to escape spreadsheet chaos and focus on strategic growth. Just close deals and let us handle your billing for you.", "one_liner": "AI agents that handles complex billing and revenue", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1722618064, "tags": [ "Finance", "Billing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? 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There, I helped the company grow from $0 to $120k in ARR. Now, I am helping lead a new era of finance and accounting for businesses starting with bookkeeping.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/bailey-spell-b487ab149", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/baileygspell", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1cc59b0948053feb3bca4927503b3df1588416f3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/13-companies-from-yc-demo-day-1-that-are-worth-paying-attention-to/", "date": "Sep 25, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 86964, "title": "LedgerUp: Handle all Billing from Slack", "tagline": "Meet Ari, your AI teammate that handles all billing and revenue from Slack", "body": "### **TLDR;**\n\nLedgerUp built an AI revenue teammate—[Ari](https://ledgerup.ai/)—to eliminate the multiple tools to juggle to get from “contract signed” to “cash in the bank.” [Ari](https://ledgerup.ai/) integrates with your CRM, automates invoicing, chases payments, and lives in Slack with real-time revenue data. 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Zero-Touch Contract Import: Signature lands → Contract processes → Revenue flows. All automatic, all instant. \n2. Intelligent Revenue Automation: Every signed agreement is automatically billed to its unique billing requirements\n3. Real-Time Slack Updates: Approve the final output in Slack and ask questions as needed\n\nWhile others offer yet another tool to learn, **your AI teammate takes over the moment a contract is signed.**\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nFrom startups to enterprises, every business faces contract-to-cash challenges. If you know revenue leaders who'd benefit from an AI billing teammate, we'd be grateful for an introduction!\n\nWho we serve well:\n\n* **Finance & Ops Teams:** automating billing operations while maintaining GAAP compliance\n* **Founders & Revenue Leaders:** who need clear revenue visibility without the operational overhead\n* **CFOs & Controllers:** seeking accurate, real-time revenue data and forecasting 💰\n* **Sales & Customer Success:** teams who want to focus on relationships, not invoice follow-ups\n* Email us at [founders@ledgerup.ai](mailto:founders@ledgerup.ai)\n\nBetter yet if you have a business that has contracts, **try Ari**: [Sign Up Here](https://www.ledgerup.ai/demo) or **Schedule a Call** with us: [Book a Short Call](https://cal.com/joe-ledgerup/15min).\n\n### **Team/Origin Story**\n\nDuring his years as a finance director for startups, [Joseph](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-johnson-/) lived the revenue operations nightmare firsthand. His days were consumed with juggling dozens of different apps – one for contracts, another for invoicing, yet another for payment tracking, and endless spreadsheets to tie it all together. \n\nThe \"_solution_\" was always to hire more FTEs to manage the chaos, but that just shifted the burden of wrestling with broken processes to someone else.\n\nTeaming up with his childhood friend [Bailey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bailey-spell-b487ab149/), who had been building AI Agents for the past 2 years, they recognized this wasn't just their problem – it's a universal pain for any company with contracts that need to get paid. \n\nThey're on a mission to liberate founders and finance teams from revenue operations chaos, giving them back the time and clarity needed to focus on what matters most: growing their business.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86964&key=user_uploads/671520/fb4f1b72-713e-444d-a5b5-eb170a3a18db)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mce-ledgerup-handle-all-billing-from-slack", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-01-20T06:36:33.585Z" }, { "id": 82825, "title": "LedgerUp - Your AI teammate that handles all billing and revenue from Slack", "tagline": "Your AI billing teammate in Slack", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Joe and Bailey from LedgerUp. We leverage AI to handle back-office finance and accounting tasks so you can get back to running your startup.\\\n\\\n**Tl;dr**\n\nUse [LedgerUp](https://ledgerup.ai/) to take care of back-office finance and accounting tasks. From daily bookkeeping to investor-ready reporting, we handle everything in between, and with integrations directly into your email/Slack inbox you are only a click away from automating a task or gathering insights on your financials.\n\n❌ **The Problem**\n\nAs a startup founder, you need to focus on PMF and scaling your business. You shouldn’t have to worry about your finances. Right now, you might be:\n\n* Wondering about your burn rate or spending\n* Struggling to keep up with bills and invoices\n* Spending too much time on bookkeeping (_or overpaying_)\n* Dealing with mistakes in your financials\n* Unsure if your books are correct\n* Sprinting to get financials ready for investors\n* Using ChatGPT/Perplexity for one of the above tasks but frustrated that the output has to be manually entered into your accounting software\n\n✨ **Our Solution**\n\nSimply connect LedgerUp to your current tools (QuickBooks, Stripe, Bank Account, etc.), and we handle the rest. Our AI Bookkeeping and Finance Assistant can help you…\n\n🚀 Keep track of your burn rate and spending daily\n\n💼 Create & send invoices and subscriptions from contracts\n\n💰 Have customers pay you on time\n\n🧾 Enter and pay bills easily\n\n📊 Have financials always ready for investors\n\n📅 Be ready for tax season without stress\n\n⏳ Save time by automating bookkeeping tasks\n\n🔍 Ensure your financials are accurate and detailed\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82825&key=user_uploads/671520/618dfc1a-99d3-4384-b12e-b494e5d319b9)\n\n🙌 **Our Asks**\n\nTry [LedgerUp](https://ledgerup.ai/)↗️! We will make your bookkeeping and finance easy and worry-free.\\\n\\\n**The Deal:** $100 off + free bill and invoice management included (_for first 3 months_)\n\nFollow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/tryLedgerUp) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ledgerup-ai/). Our inboxes are always open.\n\nShare this with any startup founders or small businesses who need better bookkeeping and finance solutions.\n\nIf you have 10 minutes to chat about LedgerUp, please [book a time](https://cal.com/joe-ledgerup/10-minute-meeting) with us😊\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82825&key=user_uploads/671520/962ba37e-91d9-4efe-b822-0983334093dd)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LXt-ledgerup-your-ai-teammate-that-handles-all-billing-and-revenue-from-slack", "votes": 54, "created_at": "2024-08-07T18:48:51.459Z" } ] }, { "id": 29710, "name": "TaxGPT", "slug": "taxgpt", "former_names": [ "TaxGPT Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/925a4d89b983d4afdeba53e9f6b6672031081f94.png", "website": "https://www.taxgpt.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "TaxGPT AI co-pilot for accountants and tax professionals increases tax firm's productivity and profitability by 10x by automating tax research, client communication, onboarding flows and secure document collection.", "one_liner": "AI tax assistant for professionals and businesses", "team_size": 45, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1724299254, "tags": [ "Fintech", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/taxgpt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/taxgpt.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/taxgpt", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AskTaxGPT", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/people/Taxgpt/100094529918148/", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/taxgpt", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/925a4d89b983d4afdeba53e9f6b6672031081f94.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/704b92d817ea63d5092b11a47f87c04bfa19864e.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1748881, "full_name": "Kashif Ali", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Automating tax filing at TaxGPT.com\nPreviously worked for Adobe & WSJ.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/chkashifali", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ChKashifAli", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e6ec43e1b82a5aa33369cc55804dda28e3cbfb83.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1750099, "full_name": "Isabella Maceda-Ali", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CTO of TaxGPT\nUC Berkeley Alum\nFocused on A.I. in Fintech ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/imaceda", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/IsaMacedaAli", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3c6e7f08762cdddfa28927ccf1fc43c6a5a36d7a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 95063, "title": "Sr. DevOps Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/taxgpt/jobs/pQ1Mr0v-sr-devops-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Devops", "salary_range": "$140K - $160K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 95555, "title": "Sr. Backend Engineer, Django, US Remote", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/taxgpt/jobs/TYiucgG-sr-backend-engineer-django-us-remote", "location": "Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $160K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "AI tax assistant TaxGPT raises $4.6M seed", "url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/02/06/ai-tax-assistant-taxgpt-seed", "date": "Feb 06, 2025" }, { "title": "Death, Taxes, and AI: How Generative AI Will Change Accounting | Andreessen Horowitz", "url": "https://a16z.com/generative-ai-in-accounting/", "date": "Jun 24, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83384, "title": "🚀 TaxGPT: AI tax co-pilot for accountants", "tagline": "TaxGPT increases the productivity & profitability of accounting and tax firms by 10x.", "body": "**TL:DR:** TaxGPT AI Tax co-pilot automates tax research, client communications, and document collections for accounting and tax firms, increasing their productivity and profitability by 10x. [Learn More](https://www.taxgpt.com/)\n\n\\\n📜 **Introduction and Backstory**:\\\nHi everyone, We are [Kashif](https://twitter.com/ChKashifAli) and [Isabella](https://linkedin.com/in/imaceda), co-founders of TaxGPT. After we faced a tricky tax decision. We created TaxGPT. Little did we know that this tool would quickly become a go-to research assistant for accountants.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83384&key=user_uploads/1748881/e70fc62d-7a7c-4a62-8836-2b8dcbb83d54)\n\n**🛑 The Problem:**\n\nThere is currently a shortage of 340k accountants in the USA. Accountants are overworked and leaving the profession; not enough new professionals are joining it.\\\n\\\n**💡 The Solution:**\n\nTaxGPT helps accountants work smarter, not harder. We automate client communications, tax research, replying to IRS notices, capturing leads, and collecting documents so accountants can focus on what truly matters. 📈💼\\\n\\\n🔍 **How it works?**\\\n\n\n**🙏 The Ask:**\n\nPlease introduce us to your accountants or any family members who are CPAs, tax lawyers, enrolled agents, or tax preparers. Here’s a quick blurb.\\\n\\\n“_Hey There,\\\nI wanted to introduce you to TaxGPT, an AI co-pilot that can help you boost your productivity and profitability by 10x. It’s designed for accountants and tax professionals, and it’s already making waves in the industry. 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After graduating, they started a B2B marketing software startup, which is where they first experienced the pain of this process.\r\n\r\nThe problem stems from fragmented data across software platforms like QuickBooks, Stripe, NetSuite, DocuSign, HubSpot, and Salesforce. 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This time-consuming and error-prone process means money is left on the table as unpaid invoices pile up. Modern companies rely on Fazeshift for better Accounts Receivable at a fraction of the cost. \n\nHi everyone, we’re Caitlin and Timmy — the founders of [Fazeshift](https://www.fazeshift.com/).\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfWzHTAPGsTO1pbNGPjGi7c7t4x89UfuHPJsNONuyWTqt8gbszjfm6a7h69VE6CeupRNhE-hR-xsMkTHCKQHOtV8G6S5XQRN3nI6-qOF22V8OAp-2viZ-j2RQVRxAgGTHpHZdjkiArjVBI4Jqc_huuQEAc?key=qvP4PVNSBbc2lXF_HIWyxA)\n\n# **🤯 The Problem: Invoicing is very manual**\n\n500 billion invoices are sent each year. Yet even today, companies still rely on humans and spreadsheets to manage them.\n\nMost companies staff an entire team of people solely dedicated to this process. This labor-intensive, costly, and error-prone process results in money left on the table.\n\n# **🎉 The Solution: AI Agents for Accounts Receivable**\n\n[Fazeshift](https://www.fazeshift.com/) integrates with your existing tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, DocuSign, Stripe, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Gmail, etc.) and automates the entire end-to-end process.\n\n**With Fazeshift, you can:**\n\n❌ Eliminate tedious manual tasks\n\n❌ Eliminate unnecessary meetings \n\n❌ Eliminate messy spreadsheets\n\n✅ Increase visibility\n\n✅ Reduce unpaid invoices\n\n✅ Have confidence that your process will scale\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdgzpGtzIXhF_gaR_q2SO_6Zif723tS8RSFJeCqAiPdpIS58QlmrJ-e_ImWUkp-Z7IhLGBI29061Qb8ifV5EHjpadeSvKR0vBCchHRZBfa0hRi0MYlMOjmeC_OcrAOVgHlPv0A_R5HZAQRgSmrsOTwj2UKq?key=qvP4PVNSBbc2lXF_HIWyxA)\n\n# **🙋Our Ask: How you can help**\n\n* **Share this post!** -  Do you know anyone in your network that deals with a lot of invoices? Do you know a CEO, CFO, or VP of Finance that would find this relevant? Please share this post (or blurb below).\n * _Quick blurb to copy & paste:_ A team of Harvard & MIT grads created an AI-powered Accounts Receivable platform that automates invoicing, cash application, and collections. Save valuable time and reduce unpaid invoices with [Fazeshift](https://www.fazeshift.com/). 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He co-founded (with David) SheetWhiz, a Chrome Extension that brings Excel features to Google Sheets used by thousands of finance professionals. Peter started his career at Meta where he built onboarding experiences for SMB advertisers. 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As AI generates more formulas, SheetWhiz helps you trace, verify, and catch mistakes before they lead to bad decisions. ", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103832&key=user_uploads/993872/5a9b468b-3cb9-4b3f-a355-6d7c3b5a9659)\n\n## TL;DR\n\nAI is going to generate more of your spreadsheet analysis.\n\nThat is powerful, but it creates a new problem: if AI writes the analysis, who catches the mistakes?\n\nSheetWhiz helps you audit the logic behind your spreadsheet work before you rely on it. You can trace where numbers come from, understand how formulas flow through your model, verify that calculations make sense, and catch mistakes before they lead to bad decisions.\n\nUnder the hood, SheetWhiz gives you the most powerful Trace Precedents and Trace Dependents workflow in Google Sheets, with multi-level formula tracing, step-by-step formula evaluation, and AI built into the audit flow.\n\nSheetWhiz is already used by over 10,000 professionals at some of the most productive companies in the world, including Anthropic, DoorDash, Robinhood, Chime, and GitLab.\n\nTry SheetWhiz free from the Chrome Web Store.\n\n## The Problem\n\nAI is making it easier than ever to create spreadsheet analysis.\n\nIt can write formulas, build models, summarize data, and automate workflows that used to take hours. That is a huge productivity unlock, especially for teams that live in spreadsheets.\n\nBut it also creates a new risk: people will start shipping analysis they do not fully understand.\n\nAnd even the best AI-generated spreadsheet work still needs review.\n\nWall Street Prep recently tested leading AI tools for financial modeling against investment banking standards. Even the winning tool scored only **5.7 / 10** on accuracy of data extraction, formatting, and modeling best practices, and **5.0 / 10** on quality and rigor of forecasting and model structure.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103832&key=user_uploads/993872/d615388a-d070-4bbe-8a3b-82dede469baf)\n\n_Source: [https://www.wallstreetprep.com/knowledge/ranking-the-best-ai-tools-for-financial-modeling-2026](https://www.wallstreetprep.com/knowledge/ranking-the-best-ai-tools-for-financial-modeling-2026/)_\n\nThat does not mean AI is not useful. It means AI can help generate the first draft, but humans still need to inspect the logic before relying on the output.\n\nThe dangerous part is that the final output can look credible.\n\nWhen AI generates a formula, the formula may look sophisticated. The model may look complete. The analysis may look ready to send. But unless someone can inspect the logic, trace the inputs, and explain how the number was calculated, the work is not truly understood.\n\nDon’t be the person who puts your name on analysis you cannot defend.\n\nNot when the numbers matter.\n\n## The Most Powerful Trace Precedents Workflow for Google Sheets\n\n\n\nSheetWhiz is built around the spreadsheet audit workflow people actually need: select a formula, understand where it came from, inspect the logic, fix issues, and keep working.\n\nWith Trace Precedents, you can select any formula and instantly see every cell feeding into it. You can jump directly to each source cell, move through references with your keyboard, and expand the precedents of those precedent cells to trace the formula multiple levels deep.\n\nInstead of manually hunting through tabs and cell references, SheetWhiz gives you an interactive audit trail for your spreadsheet.\n\nYou can see where a number came from, what it depends on, and how it flows through the model.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103832&key=user_uploads/993872/13edeec1-e48b-4fcd-9d50-89a2fda13ec0)\n\nBut tracing cells is only the first step. The harder part is understanding what the formula is actually doing.\n\nThat is why SheetWhiz also has the Evaluates Formulas and Groups toggle.\n\nIf you are looking at a VLOOKUP, SheetWhiz can show the lookup value, the table being searched, the return column, and the exact value the function returns. Instead of manually counting columns and checking ranges, you can see the result of the lookup immediately.\n\nIf you are looking at INDEX/MATCH, SheetWhiz can break apart what MATCH is finding and what INDEX is returning. You can see which row or column was matched, which source cell was returned, and how the final result was calculated.\n\nThis matters because AI-generated formulas often look correct at a glance. They can use advanced functions, nested logic, and ranges that appear reasonable. But the only way to trust the output is to inspect what each part is doing.\n\nSheetWhiz makes that inspection fast.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103832&key=user_uploads/993872/bc42a520-8757-4429-9d96-4d528a22c9fa)\n\n## AI Built Into the Audit Workflow\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103832&key=user_uploads/993872/4d36128a-3af3-4ab4-a05b-75ee1a7ae8e7)\n\nWe layered AI directly into tracing.\n\nThat does not just mean generic formula explanations. SheetWhiz has the context of your spreadsheet, the selected cell, the referenced cells, the formula being evaluated, and the surrounding model or analysis. If you’re building an LBO, SheetWhiz AI knows you’re building an LBO and will let you know whether your returns analysis is calculating correctly based on that model.\n\nIn a data analysis, SheetWhiz can explain the mechanics of the formula. If you are not familiar with VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, LET, or another function, you can ask what the formula is doing, how it works, and whether anything looks off.\n\nThat is the workflow we think people need as AI writes more spreadsheet work:\n\nGenerate the work, then inspect it, understand it, and verify it before you rely on it.\n\n## Other Auditing Tools\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103832&key=user_uploads/993872/4576c408-a4cb-46fe-a2f2-9cd9c2ed14fa)\n\nTrace Precedents is the core workflow, but SheetWhiz also includes other tools to help you inspect and audit spreadsheets faster.\n\nWith Trace Dependents, you can see which formulas rely on the cell you are changing. Before editing an input, assumption, or formula, you can understand what downstream calculations might be affected.\n\nSheetWhiz also helps you visualize spreadsheet structure with auto-coloring. You can color hard-coded values, formulas, and links to other tabs so it is easier to see what is going on in a model at a glance.\n\nFor example, you can quickly distinguish hardcoded assumptions from linked cells and formulas, making it easier to review a model for consistency and potential errors.\n\nThe goal is to help you catch problems before they spread through the model and become decisions.\n\n## Built for People Who Actually Work in Sheets and Slides\n\n\n\nAuditing is only one part of spreadsheet work. Once you understand the model, you still need to clean it up, format it, present it, and move quickly.\n\nThat is why SheetWhiz includes over 100 spreadsheet and presentation shortcuts.\n\nFor people coming from Excel, SheetWhiz brings familiar Excel-style shortcuts into Google Sheets, including paste special, insert and delete rows or columns, autofit and set row height and column width, filters, borders, alignment, merge, freeze panes, and more.\n\nFor formatting-heavy work, SheetWhiz includes format cycling tools like number cycling, font cycling, fill color cycling, and indentation cycling.\n\nFor reporting workflows, SheetWhiz lets you export a selection as an image into Google Slides while preserving the formatting from your sheet. The image links back to the original source, so teammates can trace the screenshot back to where it came from.\n\nSheetWhiz also includes Google Slides shortcuts, so the same speed gains carry into the deck-building process.\n\nAI is useful when you want help thinking through a formula. But sometimes you do not want to type a prompt or wait for a response. You just want to move faster in the spreadsheet.\n\nSheetWhiz gives you both.\n\n## Why We Built It\n\nBefore building SheetWhiz, I worked in tech private equity at Silver Lake and later in finance and operations roles. Excel plus plugins were core to how I worked.\n\nMoving into Google Sheets meant losing speed, visibility, and accuracy, especially when auditing formulas.\n\nGoogle Sheets is great for collaboration, but it has historically lacked the formula tracing, auditing, formatting, and reporting workflows that spreadsheet-heavy teams rely on every day.\n\nNow that AI is generating more spreadsheet work, that gap matters even more.\n\nIf AI writes the analysis, the human still needs to audit it.\n\nThat is what SheetWhiz is built for.\n\n## Try SheetWhiz\n\nSheetWhiz is free to try from the Chrome Web Store.\n\nJoin over 10,000 professionals at companies like Anthropic, DoorDash, Robinhood, Chime, and GitLab, and make your Google Sheets formulas easier to trace, understand, and trust.\n\n# Dimely and SheetWhiz: Fixing Spreadsheet for Finance Teams\n\nSheetWhiz emerged alongside Dimely, our AI connected spreadsheet, as part of the same mission: making the spreadsheet experience better for finance teams. Dimely focuses on automating your billing spreadsheet work, while SheetWhiz focuses on improving the daily tooling inside Google Sheets itself. Please reach out if interested in learning more about SheetWhiz or Dimely.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R0i-sheetwhiz-the-best-way-to-audit-your-google-spreadsheets", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-06-24T02:51:27.456Z" }, { "id": 96407, "title": "📊 SheetWhiz: Build Better Analyses in Google Sheets Faster", "tagline": "The go-to finance productivity tool for Google Sheets used by the top finance teams in the world. Trace Precedents, Trace Dependents, Goal Seek, What-If Data Tables, Format Cycling, Excel and PPT shortcuts, and more inside Google Sheets and Slides.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96407&key=user_uploads/993872/e1ed2019-4e60-48cf-b350-2df943369696)\n\n**TL;DR: If you miss your Excel productivity and want to be faster, more accurate, and produce more digestible models in Google Sheets, try SheetWhiz for free. Over 17,000 professionals at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, DoorDash, and Robinhood have used SheetWhiz over 8 million times to boost their productivity in Google Sheets.**\n\nSometimes Google Sheets just doesn’t cut it.\n\nAfter working for years in private equity and learning Excel like the back of my hand, the transition to startup finance and ops, where I had to use Google Sheets (on a MacBook to boot!), was incredibly painful. SheetWhiz fixes this so you don’t have to go through the pain I went through.\n\nSince launching SheetWhiz, it’s become the go-to spreadsheet tool for finance teams working in Google Sheets. It’s what finance teams at top tech companies use to move faster and with greater accuracy.\n\nTry the SheetWhiz Chrome extension today with a 21-day free trial and a free forever plan. Visit[ www.sheetwhiz.com](http://www.sheetwhiz.com) and click “Get Chrome Extension” to install the tool.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96407&key=user_uploads/993872/728a0634-015c-4c0b-82cf-d12253995391)\n\n## The Problem\n\n3 billion people use Google Workspace each month and hundreds of millions use Google Sheets in their everyday work. Finance teams are increasingly moving work into Google Sheets because it comes free with Google Workspace, and it’s easier to aggregate data and collaborate in Sheets than in Excel.\n\nThe problem? Google Sheets lacks proper tooling for finance teams to streamline their work. As this move to Sheets picks up speed, finance teams are often forced to download files into Excel to complete the work, then re-upload them back into Drive to share once complete.\n\nIt also doesn’t help that Excel, over the last 40+ years, has built massive market share in finance with a community of finance educators and tooling, while Google Sheets has focused more on the data analyst and lacks many education touch points that would drive adoption by finance teams. It’s especially frustrating for finance teams, many of whom have Excel training, to lose access to the features and functionality they’re used to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96407&key=user_uploads/993872/4cc48523-66f5-4f44-94f9-e6d11669d2fb)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96407&key=user_uploads/993872/2974b490-9222-489a-badf-0cd2a341788c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96407&key=user_uploads/993872/006affdb-e543-48e8-920a-f614f741080d)\n\nMissing features include:\n\n* A robust way to trace precedent and dependent cells\n* An easy What-If suite with tools like Goal Seek and Data Tables\n* Fast formatting tools and shortcuts\n* Exporting into other systems while maintaining formatting\n\nWithout these workflows, teams move slower, data quality checks take longer, and spreadsheet output hygiene suffers, with key stakeholders having to work harder to digest takeaways.\n\nBefore SheetWhiz, I worked in tech private equity at Silver Lake and later in finance and operations roles. Excel plus plugins were core to how I worked. Moving into Google Sheets meant losing speed, visibility, and accuracy. I searched for a fix and couldn’t find anything close. As my cofounder Peter observed my constant complaining, we decided to build the tool I wanted and use every single day.\n\n## Our Solution\n\nDemo video: \n\nSheetWhiz brings Excel’s most important auditing, scenario analysis, and formatting tools directly into Google Sheets, all triggered by shortcuts you can customize.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96407&key=user_uploads/993872/25d7badc-b113-4750-8dc1-90905824ee17)\n\n### Current capabilities include:\n\n**Audit and accuracy**\n\n* Trace Precedents\n* Trace Dependents\n* Auto-Color Hardcodes and Links to Other Tabs\n\n**Driver and sensitivity tools**\n\n* Goal Seek\n* What-If Data Tables\n\n**Advanced formatting**\n\n* Number Cycle\n* Font Cycle\n* Fill Color Cycling\n* Indentation Cycle (yes, you can indent in Sheets!)\n\n**Excel formatting shortcuts**\n\n* Paste Special (Alt + E + S)\n* Insert/Delete Columns and Rows (Ctrl + Shift + Plus/Minus)\n* Border shortcuts\n* Add/Remove Gridlines (Alt + E + V + G)\n* Set or Auto-Fit Column Width and Rows Height\n* Add/Remove Filters (Ctrl + Shift + L) and Open Filter Dropdown (Alt + Down Arrow)\n* Alignment shortcuts\n* Merge shortcuts\n* Freeze/Unfreeze shortcuts\n\n**PowerPoint formatting shortcuts**\n\n* Alignment shortcuts\n* Text alignment shortcuts\n* Distribute shortcuts\n* Grouping shortcuts\n\n**Reporting**\n\n* Export selections as clean images for pasting into other programs like Google Slides and Slack\n\n### What finance teams use SheetWhiz for:\n\n* Understand and debug models in seconds\n* Build sensitivities\n* Maintain cleaner spreadsheets faster\n* Avoid formula breakage\n* Export reporting visuals for leadership decks\n\nIf you work in Google Sheets, we would love for you to try SheetWhiz and share feedback on what to build next.\n\nTry it free for 21 days at[ www.sheetwhiz.com](http://www.sheetwhiz.com) (click “Get Chrome Extension)\n\n# Dimely and SheetWhiz: Fixing Spreadsheet for Finance Teams\n\nSheetWhiz emerged alongside Dimely, our AI connected spreadsheet, as part of the same mission: making the spreadsheet experience better for finance teams. Dimely focuses on automating your billing spreadsheet work, while SheetWhiz focuses on improving the daily tooling inside Google Sheets itself. Please reach out if interested in learning more about SheetWhiz or Dimely.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P4x-sheetwhiz-build-better-analyses-in-google-sheets-faster", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2025-12-27T15:41:41.501Z" }, { "id": 82959, "title": "Dimely 🪙 - AI Agents for B2B SaaS Finance teams", "tagline": "Save hundreds of hours every month automating manual finance tasks.", "body": "**TL;DR: **[**Dimely**](https://dimely.co/)** automates and brings visibility to time-consuming, error-prone finance workflows so teams can stay lean, audit-ready, and fully informed. We integrate seamlessly with your existing tech stack — no rip-and-replace needed — so you start seeing results on Day 1.**\n\n👋 Hi all - we’re [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidnpang/) and [Peter,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/p2sun/) and we’re on a mission to save finance teams countless hours of tedious, manual work. After logging countless hours on billing tasks in our previous roles, we decided to build the AI agents we wish we had. Dimely handles the mundane chores, maintains a proper data trail, and keeps a human-in-the-loop to ensure **100% accuracy** and **audit readiness**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82959&key=user_uploads/993872/06c793df-f448-42bf-b06a-4bdda1bb6ce1)\n\n# **❌ Problem: Billing for B2B SaaS is manual and error-prone**\n\nThis is because:\n\n* **Contracts are complex.** Contracts have multiple SKUs, payment schedules, pricing models, and billing metrics\n* **Contracts are unstructured.** Terms are often bespoke and written in by sales teams trying to close deals\n* **Data lives in different places.** Usage-based pricing models in particular, require matching contract data in your CRM with usage data from your data warehouse that is not always accurate or structured in a way that works well for billing \n* **Finance needs are deprioritized.** Engineering typically prioritizes product building and deprioritizes finance initiatives\n* **High finance tech debt.** Billing systems that work early on remain in place for too long because it takes 5+ months to migrate to another system, resulting in a high number of manual workarounds, typically in spreadsheets\n\n# **🏁 Solution: Comprehensive, AI-driven platform to automate and bring visibility to complex finance processes.**\n\nThis is where [Dimely](https://dimely.co/) comes in. We take the tasks that take the most time and automate them while keeping you in the loop. Dimely’s primary areas of focus are:\n\n**✅** Converting contracts to invoices\n\n**✅** Reconciling invoices, contracts, entitlements, and payments\n\n**✅** Calculating overages and invoicing customers (via your billing solution)\n\n**✅** Setting up proper revenue recognition\n\nWhat makes Dimely unique: \n\n* **High time to value.** We integrate within your existing workflows - no need to rip and replace anything\n* **No engineers required.** Set up Dimely through our UI and with natural language\n* **Flexible.** We know billing is heterogeneous, and various companies do things differently. Dimely’s AI copilot understands its workflows and won’t break if something unusual comes up\n\n# **🎇 How it Works:**\n\nHere’s a short demo of a fairly simple but time-consuming workflow where Dimely can assist: creating invoices in your billing solution based on signed contracts\n\n\n\n# **📢 Our Ask:**\n\n* Let us know if you know anyone spending significant time with billing. Specifically, Heads of Finance and Controllers at B2B SaaS startups. We’d love to [chat](https://calendly.com/david-pang-calendar/30min)\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/usedimely) - we have some pretty good content!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/La3-dimely-ai-agents-for-b2b-saas-finance-teams", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2024-08-12T22:42:11.571Z" } ] }, { "id": 29804, "name": "Thyme", "slug": "thyme", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f2ad649a18852dafbb67750b37634ebaf5846cdc.png", "website": "https://www.meetthyme.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "There are 300k+ financial advisors in the US using a digital Rolodex to manage their client relationships, and it's time for a makeover.\r\n\r\nAt Thyme we are building the OS for financial advisors that allows them to automatically take notes in meetings (in-person, online, and phone calls), manage their client records with the help of AI, and offer a client portal where clients can track their assets, manage tasks, and even pay for their services. \r\n\r\nOur users have replaced their legacy CRMs and billing solutions with us while deepening their clients' relationships thanks to our client portal and AI tooling that puts rich context at their fingertips.", "one_liner": "The OS for financial advisors", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1721429440, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Finance", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/thyme", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/thyme.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/thyme-yc-s24/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f2ad649a18852dafbb67750b37634ebaf5846cdc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/716b46984dc9861c415cc0af0f2554902e77e0b4.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/e7ebb562ab21e4bbe89f7a64e4689e1e5bfb3638.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1990568, "full_name": "Daniel Lantz", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "I am originally from Texas and currently reside in Richmond, VA. 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I moved to SF to start my career.\nFor the most part, I've worked at the intersection of finance, software, and data at places like Capital One, Zippi (YC s19), and Trovata.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/fsanmartinjorquera", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a09be096d062b31a9f89b15bb2cd57fbf098f7d3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82372, "title": "🌿 Thyme: meeting intelligence for financial advisors", "tagline": "Run 10x better meetings as a financial advisor.", "body": "**tl;dr: **[**Thyme**](https://www.meetthyme.com/)** enables financial advisors to run 10x better meetings. We cover meeting prep, transcription, summarization, CRM syncing, and document parsing. Please introduce us to any financial advisor in your network!**\n\n# 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 About us\n\nWe are Fernando San Martin (left), and Daniel Lantz (right). We've worked together at Capital One, trovata.io, Campfire (YC S23) and are now Thyme co-founders. Our mission is to build better software tools for financial advisors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82372&key=user_uploads/847698/1370b41c-bff4-402b-be93-fc40ffa032cb)\n\n# **❗ The Problem**\n\nFinancial advisors spend hours every day preparing, running, and following up on client meetings. Their attention is split between engaging with the client and taking meaningful notes, and often, these notes are incomplete or non-existent.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82372&key=user_uploads/847698/3e9d6239-57f1-4a34-b794-7223d5eef16b)\n\nAfter finishing the meeting, the advisor has to expand on the few scattered words that they jotted down to create follow-up tasks and update their CRM with the new client insights.\n\n# ✅ **Our Solution**\n\nThyme solves all of the above. Using our app, the advisor can see their upcoming meetings, for which they can prepare by viewing a holistic profile about the client and even asking natural language questions.\n\nOnce in the meeting, our app uses state-of-the-art AI technology to transcribe, summarize, generate action items, and draft follow-up emails.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82372&key=user_uploads/847698/554cca4a-0ea6-40f2-ad21-effa09f00d16)\n\nFinally, our powerful integrations with the rest of the advisors’ tech stack also allow us to initiate workflows and send tasks and notes to other systems. Any financial documents submitted by the client are parsed and integrated into their profile.\n\nOur users describe the solution as a game-changer that saves them hours each week while creating much richer and more accurate notes and tasks that sync seamlessly with their stack.\n\n# 🙏 **Request**\n\n* If you like what we are building, upvote, comment, and follow us on [Linkedin.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thyme-yc-s24/)\n* If you know of any financial advisors in your network, ask them if they would be interested in chatting. Here is a potential blurb you can use to introduce us: \"[Thyme](https://www.meetthyme.com) is changing how financial advisors run online meetings. Would you like to hear more directly from the team?\"\n* Like and re-share our upcoming public launch with your network later this week.\n* Reach out to us at [founders@meetthyme.com](mailto:founders@meetthyme.com) if you have ideas or suggestions or would like to simply meet.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LQa-thyme-meeting-intelligence-for-financial-advisors", "votes": 110, "created_at": "2024-07-23T17:47:07.110Z" } ] }, { "id": 29980, "name": "Midship", "slug": "midship", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2f189a43d87020ce1dd302bdc0c90f0f5ee76fc9.png", "website": "https://midship.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Midship is rebuilding internal audit from the ground up. 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We built Midship to fix that.\n\nSince launch, multiple public companies have onboarded and are already cutting weeks of testing work down to hours.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV0c_OQlHeg\n\n**The problem**\n\nSOX testing is an extremely expensive and time-consuming part of being public.\n\nCompanies either:\n\n* Spend millions outsourcing the work to consultants, or\n* Burn thousands of internal hours doing testing and documentation manually\n\nIn both cases, the results are the same: auditors being pulled away from higher-value risk and strategy.\n\n**The solution**\n\nWe built the first **end-to-end [SOX automation platform](https://midship.ai/sox)**.\n\nOur AI agents handle the heavy lifting\n\n* Running attribute tests like tie-outs and reconciliations across evidence\n* Linking and annotating support so every conclusion is transparently documented\n* Assembling audit-ready workpapers in the exact formats external auditors expect\n\nWe deliver this through the **two surfaces where SOX work happens**:\n\n* A **web app** for managing tests and documentation\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93785&key=user_uploads/710254/ed579c54-cadb-4aff-83d0-e3f5479bc3c4)\n\n* A **native Excel add-in** for auditors who live in spreadsheets\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93785&key=user_uploads/710254/68313bad-cc21-4e1f-8f9a-427f1e7ae5bd)\n\n\n**What’s next**\n\nToday, Midship saves companies time on testing and documentation. Next on our roadmap, we’re focused on automating **evidence gathering itself**, reducing the hours teams spend just collecting data. This will set the stage for SOX testing to evolve from point-in-time exercises to **continuous monitoring.**\n\nIf you’re connected to internal audit or SOX teams, we’d love an intro.\n\nLearn more at [Midship.ai](https://midship.ai/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OOf-midship-ai-for-sox-testing", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-09-15T06:10:15.223Z" }, { "id": 88714, "title": "Midship - AI for Financial Auditors", "tagline": "Midship accelerates financial audit procedures with AI agents", "body": "Hi YC 🫡\n\nWe’re Kieran, Aahel and Max from Midship and we are building AI agents that accelerate financial audits. With Midship, you can go from a folder of 100 unorganized PDF documents to a draft work paper in minutes, rather than days.\n\nOur agents target low-complexity, document based auditing tasks, such as matching invoices to ledger items and checking correctness of dates on receipts. They collect and link evidence at every step, making all work quickly verifiable.\n\nOur launch video makes the bold claim that our platform will break up the stranglehold the Big 4 (Deloitte, EY, PWC, KPMG) have on the audit market:\n\n\n\n# **Problem**\n\n**Everyone gets audited**\n\nEvery public company in the US requires a yearly audit of their financial statements by an accredited auditor. These require an auditor to gather evidence that a company’s financial statements are accurate and complete, to a reasonable level of assurance.\n\n**Everything is a PDF**\n\nAs the auditor is external, getting the data invariably means receiving many PDFs of financial documents, such as invoices, purchase order and receipts. Until recently, there was no way to reliably extract and process the data from these documents, meaning a human had to go through each of the documents by hand.\n\n**Audit workflows are painful**\n\nBeyond the time spent on an individual audit, the audit profession as a whole is feeling the ramifications of these quality of life issues. One look at /r/accounting will show you the frustration auditors are feeling with long hours, especially during busy season (right now).\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWith the advent of modern vision language models (VLMs), we can extract data from these financial documents and process them as if we had a direct integration with the clients accounting and ERP systems.\n\nA task such as “find the correct invoice for each of these 50 samples” goes from hours of manual work to a few minutes of VLM processing.\n\nWe then go one level further with agents performing audit tests from plans written in natural language. For example, an auditor may plan to check that for each sample, “all amounts match between documents”. Midship performs this check, links to evidence in the source documents and highlights anything that requires review by an auditor.\n\n**We have a web app:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88714&key=user_uploads/1473312/a66dd447-a22f-455b-b447-9375126e4159)\n\n**And a native Excel add-in with all the same functionality:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88714&key=user_uploads/2088119/0dd68370-1716-43ba-b807-626af26c9551)\n\n# **Our ask**\n\nIf you have worked with a **auditor from outside the Big-4** in a current or recent role, we would _love_ to talk to them.\n\nContact us at: [founders@midship.ai](mailto:founders@midship.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88714&key=user_uploads/2088119/a4928339-03ca-4ff2-8340-c249cd4fa097)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N4s-midship-ai-for-financial-auditors", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-03-17T19:08:43.978Z" }, { "id": 85135, "title": "Midship - Extract & Structure Document Data", "tagline": "Turn unstructured documents into clean business data - give it a try with your documents now!", "body": "Hey YC! We're Aahel, Kieran, and Max from [Midship.](https://midship.ai/)\n\n### **TLDR**\n\n[**Click here**](https://app.midship.ai/demo/) **to try our playground!**\n\nBusinesses spend countless hours manually copying data from documents into spreadsheets, ERPs, and other business systems. Midship extracts data from any document into standardized formats that integrate with your existing business processes. Today, Midship powers diverse organizations from finance to biotech, saving enterprises countless hours of manual work daily.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85135&key=user_uploads/1473312/886e10d8-4f40-4f8a-946f-c3166f5ea5c9)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nAccountants spend almost 50% of their time on manual data entry. Supply chain managers manually process hundreds of shipping documents. Healthcare administrators copy-paste endless insurance forms. This list goes on.\n\nHighly skilled professionals are spending half their days on mindless data entry.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nMidship eliminates this manual process. Here's how it works:\n\n* **Extracts** the data you need from any document\n* **Audit** each extracted value against the source on Midship\n* **View** all your extractions in Midship's structured data interface\n* **Export** data where you need - your excel templates, api integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85135&key=user_uploads/1473312/99f51026-2b6d-4289-afc4-ddc82040f043)\n\n### **How is Midship different?**\n\nWhile others simply pull raw data from documents, Midship transforms extracted data into the format you use for work. 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We're so eager to learn about your business use cases and show you what’s possible.\\\nEmail us at [**founders@midship.ai**](mailto:founders@midship.ai)\\\n\\\nCheers!\\\n[**Aahel**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aahel-iyer-221999120/), [**Max**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-maio-897514195/), and [**Kieran**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieranctaylor)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M99-midship-extract-structure-document-data", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-10-29T21:20:08.636Z" }, { "id": 82857, "title": "Midship - Extract documents straight to your spreadsheets", "tagline": "Complex docs in, organized data out.", "body": "Hey YC! We're Aahel, Kieran, and Max from [Midship](https://midship.ai/).\n\nWe became friends while working together at our previous company. We grew up in different corners of the world, but quickly found common ground over intense FIFA matches, Blue Bottle Coffee and love for building impactful software. We're so thrilled to be on this journey.\n\n### **TLDR**\n\n[Midship](https://midship.ai/) extracts information from complex documents and inputs it directly into your preferred spreadsheets, significantly reducing manual data entry.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nEnterprise professionals waste hours manually extracting data from documents into spreadsheets. Whether it's loan applications or legal contracts, this process steals hours from valuable analysis.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82857&key=user_uploads/1473312/56250a24-2971-4c0b-a4a8-9800c3155bb8)\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\n1. Upload your source documents (PDFs, reports, etc.)\n2. Upload your target spreadsheet template\n3. Midship extracts the required data and maps it to your template\n4. Download your fully populated spreadsheet, ready for analysis in minutes\n\n### **See it in action**\n\n\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nKnow senior finance professionals in these areas?\n\n* Hedge Funds or Asset Management\n* Investment Banking\n* Private Equity\n\nWe've made it easy to help! Just drop their names, LinkedIn URLs, or emails in our [quick form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3RzZv29hfRpB3mZwGliL8LfjIYKINtVQAgFyt1Cn2QRcGMQ/viewform?usp=sf_link). Your referrals are incredibly valuable to us as we grow.\n\n### **We are launching a Startup Tier**\n\nWe're excited to introduce our Startup Tier, designed to support early-stage companies. 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We provide real-time access to core financial metrics like runway, burn, and ARR, while handling your bookkeeping, sales and year-end taxes. \n\nOur platform connects with your other financial systems, like billing and payroll, and uses a blend of AI and expert accountants to keep your finances up to date.\n\n**Ask:** If you need help with bookkeeping or year-end corporate taxes, [book a demo](https://cal.com/team/afternoon.co/demo)! We serve startups including YC companies and e-commerce brands, and would love to take bookkeeping off your plate.\n\n\n\n**Problem**\n\nGood bookkeeping is the financial foundation for startups. Legacy accounting products make the process unnecessarily complex and confusing, failing to provide the metrics and reporting that founders and investors need.\n\n**Solution**\n\nAfternoon.co is new accounting software purpose-built for founders, with two key differentiators:\n\n1. **Built-in Intelligence:** Afternoon.co leverages AI to handle tasks traditionally done by humans. For example, it finds receipts in your Gmail inbox and automatically matches them to expenses, sparing you from constantly uploading receipts. Our AI assistant also helps answer questions instantly, so you’re never blocked.\n2. **Collaborative from Day 1:** Bookkeeping is a team effort, often involving lengthy email chains. 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Compliance teams would have to sift through 1000s of pages of different regulations, which they would need to understand, review and transpose into product requirements, controls & policies. These processes today are almost entirely manual, taking up hundreds of hours a year per compliance employee.\n\n# **Our** **Solution ✅**\n\nCardamon is an AI powered platform that ingests relevant regulation, understands what applies to each regulated financial firm, and gets compliance officers from regulation, to obligations, to product requirements in minutes - not weeks. \n\nCompliance officers can select any regulation they want to map to their firm. 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We aim to replace all bookkeeping, accounting and tax filing jobs within small businesses globally.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90474&key=user_uploads/699602/a3d4cbc1-3f96-4b78-a0ee-87bd139773c5)\n\nTraditional software (Quickbooks/Xero) can’t think, and traditional accountants (Fondo/Finta) can’t scale—we need something more.\n\nMinerva delivers CFO-level intelligence through AI—ready to ingest every bank feed, invoice, chat, and doc. 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We’re from Canada & met at an international science fair during high school. We have been building together ever since! We both have 2 decades of combined experience building software.\n\n---\n\nCheck us out @ [joinminerva.ai](https://joinminerva.ai)\n\nContact us @ [om@tryminerva.ai](mailto:om@tryminerva.ai) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NXG-minerva-ai-accountant-for-smbs", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-05-16T17:06:06.568Z" } ] }, { "id": 30461, "name": "Combinely", "slug": "combinely", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d60074c98f74b46443d4cb4aaad793b532b48401.png", "website": "https://combinely.ai", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Coco is the AI coworker for accountants. It joins your firm like an employee to run end-to-end accounting workflows. It uses your tools, learns your clients and your firm's standards. 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Accountants are under pressure to deliver more complex work, faster, while still doing the basic work by hand.\n\nBuilt by an ex-Deloitte/Google team, **Combinely is an AI coworker that takes on entire workflows** across bookkeeping, tax, and audit.\n\n**Watch the 60-second demo:** \n\n### **Problem**\n\n**Accounting software got faster. The work didn’t go away.**\n\nData still comes in messy. Someone still has to collect it, structure it, check it, and move it between systems.\n\n**AI is raising the bar.**\n\nClients expect more, faster. Accountants need to move to higher-value work, while the basic work still has to get done.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nAn AI accountant that works like an employee, carrying work through to completion.\n\n* Uses the same tools, learning your clients and firm standards.\n* Works across bookkeeping, tax, and audit.\n\n#### **The impact**\n\n* **Doubles firm capacity,** not individual productivity.\n* Gives people **their time back** from work no human should still do.\n* Lets firms **win revenue they couldn't before**, jobs once too small or crowded out.\n\nIf the above resonates, reach out to [tom@combinely.ai](mailto:tom@combinely.ai) or book a call. Thank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Uer-combinely-ai-coworker-for-accountants", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-10-01T14:29:05.984Z" }, { "id": 95734, "title": "Combinely - AI coworker for tax teams", "tagline": "AI coworker that saves tax accountants 90 minutes a day in busy season", "body": "Hey everyone, we’re Tom & Arthur - co-founders of Combinely.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\n**Tax workflows are fragmented:** every client is different, every return has exceptions, and firms rely on systems that don’t talk to each other. **With under 25% automated**, teams lose hours switching across systems - hitting capacity fast.\n\n[Combinely](https://www.linkedin.com/company/combinely/)’s AI coworker fixes this by **adapting to a firm’s existing tools & processes - just like a real employee.** From managing an overflowing inbox to reviewing returns - it saves accountants 90 minutes every day.\n\n📺 Watch the 60-second demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asMsSc70_pE\n\n**📬 Know a tax team ready for AI?** → [tom@combinely.ai](mailto:tom@combinely.ai) /[ book a call](https://calendly.com/d/cn29-5dx-6bz)\n\n---\n\n### **Problem**\n\n1. **Manual tax workflows:** Tax teams spend hours daily on manual work because client-specific tasks remain hard to automate.\n2. **Seasonal overload:** Tax season compresses a year of work into 12 weeks. 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Thank you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89999&key=user_uploads/1315195/b4d99548-45fb-4c06-9985-d4c989f4d879)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NPb-combinely-ai-coworker-for-accountants", "votes": 148, "created_at": "2025-05-01T14:40:07.737Z" } ] }, { "id": 30531, "name": "Moby Analytics", "slug": "moby-analytics", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2113434e52531a77ccec1fd7bb7d5596dc0b6f6d.png", "website": "https://www.mobyanalytics.com/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "At Moby Analytics, we provide the first AI agentic platform built for financial auditors. Auditors easily create and deploy AI agents to automate audit workflows. 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Unleashing auditors' potential.", "body": "Hey YC!\n\nWe’re [Dimitri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-kassubeck-69764647/), [Thomas, ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-rapilly-00481167/)and [Clément ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cl%C3%A9ment-sengelen-09261354/)- co-founders of [Moby Analytics](https://www.mobyanalytics.com/en) - and we’re ending manual work in audit, so auditors can reclaim time for high-value thinking.\n\n❌ **Problem**\n\n**Auditors spend 50% of their time on the wrong things.**\\\nChasing documents, sorting PDFs, and manually checking numbers.\\\nAll of it steals time from what truly matters: analysis and judgment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90445&key=user_uploads/2582095/26d5c027-fc6c-434d-8700-11f9eb9ae60a)\n\n💡**Solution**\n\nAt Moby Analytics, **we’re ending manual work in audit**—so auditors can reclaim time for high-value thinking.\n\nWith Moby, auditors automate repetitive tasks and analyze data, in their own way. We’ve built the first AI platform that **lets auditors create and deploy their own AI agents**—no code needed. Just prompts and audit expertise.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivqOkh9xBaU\n\n🔨_Create an Agent :_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90445&key=user_uploads/2582095/ecbc0b6f-a5e5-448e-b92d-5375600e07e5)\n\n🔍 _Review the agent’s work :_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90445&key=user_uploads/2582095/baaf0c19-b22e-4300-9789-660aa1803099)\n\n**👌Team**\n\nWe’re three long-time friends—**Dimitri**, **Thomas**, and **Clément**—on a mission to bridge the gap between audit and tech.\n\nWe started by building a data analytics agency, **training hundreds of auditors to use data and AI tools**. And we saw firsthand what they could achieve when they had the right tools.\n\n**That’s why Moby exists: to unleash auditors’ potential.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90445&key=user_uploads/2582095/776ce6eb-ea8f-4bdf-ab1c-cee5b9ae8ed2)\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Can you introduce us to **audit firm leaders** (CEO, Chief Transformation Officer, CTO)?\n* Can you introduce us to auditors who have a **strong interest in AI** solutions?\n\nContact: [dimitri.kassubeck@mobyanalytics.com](https://dimitri.kassubeck@mobyanalytics.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90445&key=user_uploads/2582095/6dc65535-69e6-4bbd-ae36-fd96a2c11522)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NWn-moby-analytics-ai-platform-for-financial-auditors", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-05-15T21:01:16.920Z" } ] }, { "id": 30552, "name": "sieve", "slug": "sieveai", "former_names": [ "Sieve" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/459d63741f9af0815baebb98ab6c243158d589c2.png", "website": "https://usesieve.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "sieve solves data cleaning for hedge funds and investment firms by letting them get clean data in four lines of code. 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It's crazy to anyone outside of the industry, but in finance even earnings dates (the date a company reports earnings) are considered **a known hard problem.**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/V-OpzDRge3o\n\n**Our ask**\n\nWe've solved this problem and our ask to the YC community is - **connect us with anyone you know who works in the investing world and uses data (should be all of them).** You can email us at [founders@usesieve.com](mailto:nicole@usesieve.com).\n\n**Who we are**\n\nAfter studying CS at MIT, I worked at Citadel and McKinsey, and Savannah worked at Bain. We've dealt with this problem first hand and were amazed that there weren't good solutions.\n\n**What we've built**\n\nsieve lets hedge funds replace manual review in their data pipelines with a simple API call, so their engineers and analysts can get back to more differentiated work. Behind the scenes, we use AI to find and retrieve the appropriate source documents and to extract the requested data. 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Watch below to see how the excel integration works!\n\n[**https://youtu.be/r6A1t_X2kZo**](https://youtu.be/r6A1t_X2kZo)\n\n**What the early results look like**\n\n* sieve is able to replace manual data cleaning workflows:\n * accurately (100% match to data that was hand-collected internally)\n * more scalably (weeks of full-time work to review data became a passive background task for the data scientist)\n * more cheaply (easily 60-70% cheaper than existing options, even when that existing option is BPO outsourcing)\n\nIn our first week of YC, we were told that we need to be at least one of: better, faster, or cheaper.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90521&key=user_uploads/1591478/5e3dcc39-e2cb-48d4-bf91-5babfba2d701)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90521&key=user_uploads/1591478/9bec35c3-4989-4973-b5ab-2fd181799d39)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NY1-sieve-helps-hedge-funds-extract-and-clean-data-from-any-source-directly-into-their-existing-tools", "votes": 83, "created_at": "2025-05-19T15:16:31.617Z" } ] }, { "id": 30716, "name": "Finto", "slug": "finto-de", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f6adb7f41be65aa21db82cf58680bb6b24b1fdaa.png", "website": "https://www.gofinto.com/", "all_locations": "Munich, BY, Germany", "long_description": "Finto builds AI accounting software for enterprise finance teams. 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A typical **mid-market enterprise processes \\~100k incoming invoices** **yearly**, and today, an accountant tops out at \\~10-20k invoices per year because the real grind is still manual: \r\n\r\n* Key-stroking invoice data to the ERP\r\n* Manual invoice review and compliance checks\r\n* Manual managing deviations with purchase orders\r\n* Manual allocate ledger accounts and cost center codes\r\n* Chasing approvals. That’s why enterprises still staff large accounting teams - or ship the work to shared-service centers." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "AI will write the final chapter of accounting software. What once required teams, training, and manual effort now happens in real-time - intelligently, autonomously, and at scale through agents. \r\n\r\nFinto is our contribution to this future. As AI agents become capable of understanding context, learning from company-specific data, and executing complex workflows, entire job profiles will shift away from manual execution. With its predictable but intricate schemes, accounting is poised to be one of the first areas transformed. \r\n\r\nDoubling down on our domain expertise, we are on a mission to **take the manual out of accounting**." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finto-de", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/finto-de.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "Munich", "country": "DE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fintoai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/finto-a994", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f6adb7f41be65aa21db82cf58680bb6b24b1fdaa.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/897790f5a97b38600e585ebd8a1b1a17e7fb809f.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 517834, "full_name": "Jonas Morgner", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO of Finto, building AI Accounting agents for enterprise finance teams.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasmorgner/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7f97605372b5d0ae1ac979c3e2c7f2ed491ba373.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2677901, "full_name": "Linus Boehm", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CTO of Finto, building AI Accounting agents for enterprise finance teams.\nFormer Engineering Lead @ Tacto - the intelligent procurement engine for enterprises. 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We automate the invoice-to-pay process from their email inbox to their ERP including invoice handling, supplier communication, 3-way matching, and ERP data entry.\n\n**Problem**\n\nEnterprises with complex vendor supply chains produce vast amounts of incoming vendor invoices each year. A typical **mid-market enterprise processes \\~100k incoming invoices** **yearly**, and today’s legacy tools force accountants to top out at a fraction of the volume: Real manual grunt work still remains:\n\n* Handling hundreds of mails and documents a day\n* Key-stroking invoice data to the ERP\n* Manual invoices checks and account coding\n* Manual managing deviations with purchase orders\n* Chasing approvals\n\nThat’s why enterprises still staff large accounting teams - or ship the work to shared-service centers. Our mission is to free the world’s finance teams from repetitive, low-value tasks so they can focus on impactful work. That starts with building a place where everyone can do their best work.\n\n**Solution**\n\nWe build a platform embedding AI agents to automate the end-to-end invoice-to-pay cycle:\n\n1. **Classify** inbox documents (invoice, receipts, reminder)\n2. **Read** invoices at **99%+ accuracy** - even on line item level\n3. **Check** on vendor, tax, bank, and compliance data\n4. **Email vendors** automatically if something’s off\n5. **Understand & code** ledger, cost-center or project numbers\n6. **Three-Way-Match** invoice orders with POs and GRs\n7. **Collect** **&** **chase** required approvals\n8. **Post to ERP**\n\n**Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92119&key=user_uploads/517834/3c1f90e4-a068-4456-9e57-cdc10fe024d3)\n\nWe combine deep domain expertise in enterprise workflow automation. \n\n[Lorenz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenz-neuner/) and [Jonas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasmorgner/) worked together for 4+ years at TradeLink (European Logistics-SaaS backed by Point Nine, Insight Partners), accompanying the path from 0 to product-market fit. Lorenz led Product; Jonas led Go-to-Market. Both quit their leadership roles to found Finto. \n\nKnowing each other from the Munich startup scene, [Linus](https://www.linkedin.com/in/linus-boehm/) joined as Co-Founder & CTO. He was previously an early tech lead at Tacto (Procurement-SaaS backed by Sequoia, Index), helping scale it from pre-seed to one of Europe’s largest Series A rounds in mid-market SaaS.\n\n**CTA**\n\nYou’re interested in our product? 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It works your receivables like a great AR hire: it finds out why a payment is stuck, follows up with the right person, and gets it moving. Nothing goes to your customer without your OK.** \\\n\\\nOur ask: if your team spends time chasing invoices and getting paid, send them to us. We'll work them for you, free for two weeks. Book 30 minutes at [meetalder.com/demo](http://meetalder.com/demo?utm_source=launchyc) or email [founders@meetalder.com](mailto:founders@meetalder.com).\\\n\\\n**Invoices don't get refused. They get stuck.**\n\nIn the US, 43% of B2B invoice value is overdue at any given time, and another 5% gets written off. 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The Finance Manager could:\n\n🟪 Reduce financial risks with closer inspection (e.g., debt covenants)\n\n🟪 Catch cash leakages by spotting suppliers being paid at generous terms\n\n🟪 Be a strategic partner to the CEO & business with better analysis\n\n⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻\n\nZalos **transforms** your Finance Operations:\n\n☑️ **Scale without headcount** - don’t let Operations teams be a bottleneck\n\n☑️ **Smarter every day**, with evals & RL-finetuning driving a self-performing system\n\n☑️ **Built for Enterprise-grade security** and screen records every automation for audit\n\nRequest demo here:[ ](https://bit.ly/4gJalwn)https://www.zalos.ai/contact-us\n\n⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻\n\n# The Team\n\n**William** was UK General Manager at Agicap, one of the largest ‘Office of the CFO’ startups in Europe, after working at McKinsey. 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Hours of manual investigation become minutes of autonomous work, with full transparency into every decision.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98256&key=user_uploads/348419/736cf82d-73f6-460b-9223-a963e79187e9)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98256&key=user_uploads/348419/0bda9aa6-2278-40a3-9a62-86649664fbf0)\n\n**About Us**\n\nSean and David are the co-founders of End Close.\n\nSean spent 6 years building the reconciliation org at Modern Treasury (S18) where he was the 2nd engineering hire, processing a trillion dollars in payments across 40 banks with 99.995% automation. He has built high volume ACH and Wire origination systems and is the primary contributor of the popular open-sourced LedgerSync library for integrating with legacy ERP providers.\n\nDavid is a second time founder, having previously gone through YC S19 with Unflow, helped creators earn $100k+ selling live classes online during COVID. Since then he led the error tracking team at PostHog (W20). 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Yet +80% of firms still rely on manual, spreadsheet-based reconciliation processes, and small business owners spend 20+ hours every week managing their books, from invoicing and expenses to reporting and taxes.\n\n**As former CFOs and business owners, we’ve lived the problem for years:**\n\n* Paying thousands per month for late, inaccurate books\n* Scrambling to fix errors before board meetings\n* Waiting weeks for sloppy month-end closes\n* Chasing receipts to stay compliant\n\n\\\n**Why hasn’t this been solved?**\n\nBecause bookkeeping isn’t just rules - it’s judgment. And traditional firms aren’t built to solve this with AI. But companies needed this _yesterday;_ Despite only incorporating in January, we are already active across multiple industries helping some of the most forward-looking and modern companies in everything from tech, ecommerce, florists, to digital consultants, close their books **faster**, **cheaper** and more **accurately**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97794&key=user_uploads/2342832/6a4d536d-9b7c-413f-8a3a-c909d22c5a13)\n\n# [**👷**](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) Our Solution\n\nWe’re building the accounting firm we always wished existed; combining AI systems with human experts to deliver **clean books, real-time insights, and instant answers.**\n\n**Our AI agents ingest your business context — revenue, payroll, banking, expenses, ledger, and automate the full back-office finance stack.**\n\nOur agents categorize transactions, reconcile accounts, and surface anomalies in real time, with a human in the loop for review and accuracy.\n\nOnce the books are clean, Balance becomes the easiest way to actually _understand_ them.\n\nFounders can dive into costs, audit subscriptions, break down revenue, and validate taxes; all from where they work (Slack, WhatsApp, email), without waiting on PDFs or parsing spreadsheets. It’s your outsourced finance function. Accurate books, responsive, and always up-to-date.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97794&key=user_uploads/2342832/87ac5371-367d-4cbb-bae8-eb78564cb10b)\n\n# [**👬**](https://emojipedia.org/men-holding-hands) The Team\n\nWe're a team of repeat founders, CFOs, and AI engineers who built finance teams at high-growth startups and scaled vertical AI applications globally, across McKinsey and 3 YC companies.\n\n**Mathias**: Former CFO at Female Invest (YC S21), founder of an accountancy, and small business owner. Lived this problem firsthand, chasing external accountants, correcting their mistakes and spending hours on manual processes that should be automated.\\\n**Gus**: Maths, CS & AI Research at Imperial and Oxford. Built agentic AI systems across education and legal. \\\n**Emil**: Previously at McKinsey, Kapa AI (YC S23), and worked within product at Encord (YC W21).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97794&key=user_uploads/2342832/e779eba3-0917-4367-a803-2a7a41f21c86)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PRK-balance-ai-accounting-firm-for-smbs", "votes": 765, "created_at": "2026-02-13T07:57:35.468Z" } ] }, { "id": 31525, "name": "Arden", "slug": "arden", "former_names": [ "Veris" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/66c948c30bb6ef7a235b3bf6ee7bcb0964990077.png", "website": "https://ardentech.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Arden is the AI-native platform for internal audit and SOX teams.\r\n\r\nWe build AI agents that automatically pull evidence from your stack, test controls end-to-end, and produce audit-ready workpapers in minutes instead of weeks.\r\n\r\nInternal audit is a massive but underserved market. Every public company in the US is required to do SOX testing, yet teams still run it through spreadsheets and screenshots. 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Previously worked on AI @ Databricks and studied CS & Data Science @ UC Berkeley. Co-authored NeurIPS 2025 research on privacy-preserving ML for autonomous systems.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryaman-khanna-210a9121b/", "x_url": "https://x.com/aryamank24", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ed231bd97888750f01480de2da0b722ec1c19f3a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 100897, "title": "Arden: AI-native platform for audit teams", "tagline": "Run your audits in minutes, not weeks", "body": "Hey everyone!\n\nWe're[ ](https://linkedin.com/in/aryamankhanna)Aryaman and David, co-founders of[ ](https://arden.ai)Arden.\n\n**TL;DR:** Arden is the AI-native platform for audit and SOX teams.\n\n**Ask:** Intros to VPs of Internal Audit / CAEs at public tech companies. [founders@ardentech.ai](mailto:founders@ardentech.ai) or[ ](https://arden.ai)[ardentech.ai](http://ardentech.ai)\n\n\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nInternal audit still runs on spreadsheets and screenshots.\n\nEvery year, audit teams test hundreds of controls to prove the company's financials are trustworthy. For each one, someone spends weeks chasing colleagues for evidence buried in 20+ disconnected systems and manually testing in Excel. They do the same work every quarter.\n\nSOX compliance costs almost $2M a year at a public company, and 70%+ of that is labor. Teams outsource the overflow to consulting firms at $500-1,000 an hour and burn another seven figures.\n\nThe tools that exist today store the workpapers, but don’t do the work.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nArden is the AI-native platform that runs audit tests end-to-end.\n\n1. **Plugs into your stack.** Connects to your control library, source systems, and past audit data. Learns how your team audits, and builds that knowledge over time\n2. **Gathers evidence from every system.** Computer-use AI agents navigate legacy systems and capture the screenshots external auditors require. Direct integrations pull from your modern stack, saving auditors weeks of back and forth.\n3. **Chases down control owners for you.** A Slack/Teams agent follows up with control owners, saving auditors weeks of back and forth. Our agent has the right context already filled in, so control owners just confirm.\n4. **Runs control tests.** Arden’s testing engine supports full-population or sample-based testing. It catches every exception and flags them for review.\n5. **Produces workpapers ready for external auditors.** Every conclusion ties back to the source evidence, with full traceability into how Arden reached it. \n\nAudit work hasn't changed in 30 years even as the systems in scope have doubled. We’re rebuilding audit from the ground up.\n\n### **The Team**\n\nAryaman and David have been best friends since 6th grade. Aryaman studied CS at Berkeley and David studied AI at MIT, and we’ve done research on LLM reliability (and a million other projects) together.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you can intro us to any of the following, we'd love it:\n\n* **VPs of Internal Audit, CAEs, or SOX directors** at public companies\n* **CFOs or Controllers** at public or pre-IPO companies\n* **Anyone at a Big 4 or mid-tier firm** doing co-sourced SOX work\n\n[founders@ardentech.ai](mailto:founders@ardentech.ai) or book a demo at [ardentech.ai](https://ardentech.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QFN-arden-ai-native-platform-for-audit-teams", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2026-05-06T18:04:14.382Z" } ] }, { "id": 31562, "name": "Cohesion", "slug": "cohesion", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a85ed9b4f8c87d919e87f4a7838af368b02f0f94.png", "website": "https://cohesionplatform.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Cohesion is building the modern system of intelligence for financial analysts. 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Take 2 minutes to send 20 tickers and have the easiest earnings season of your career:[ https://cohesionplatform.com/#start-free-trial](https://cohesionplatform.com/#start-free-trial)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pxy-cohesion-your-public-equities-agentic-teammate", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2026-04-16T16:56:39.117Z" } ] }, { "id": 32131, "name": "Shielded", "slug": "shielded", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eec883dcf84a87963c1d7874cef470c16c9dad19.png", "website": "https://www.shieldedglobal.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Shielded connects companies’ internal and external data to map market shifts, tariffs, and disruptions directly to suppliers, products, and margins. We turn those impacts into real-time decisions that grow and protect the business. 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Founder James Simon saw this problem first hand in commodities trading, in fact his whole job was to take advantage of other firms reacting too slowly as the world changed. \n\nThat’s what inspired him to build Shielded, as an intelligence layer that integrates quickly, deeply understands your specific business, and turns volatility into clear, proactive decisions.\n\nShielded supports critical part and supplier management for leading defense companies, ingredient price audits for multinational CPG firms, and tariff impact analysis for global manufacturers.\n\nWith API, MCP, BOM, and spreadsheet integrations, every customer deployment to date has taken less than 72 hours.\n\nInstead of simply receiving an alert when something happens, Shielded gives procurement, finance, and supply chain teams company-specific guidance on the impacts of external events, market shifts, and regulation changes, and recommends the right operational or hedging responses.\n\nShielded is your supply chain’s command center that never sleeps.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SPp-shielded-the-company-brain-for-supply-chain-risk", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-08-06T18:00:00.390Z" } ] }, { "id": 32155, "name": "Rex", "slug": "rex-inc", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b14c16514ac7654483b96e54e1bf49a45714e8f6.png", "website": "https://www.rex.inc", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Rex is an AI-native service for order to cash. 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Founders [Merlin Kafka](https://www.linkedin.com/in/merlinkafka/) and [Lewis Blackwood](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lewisblackwood) spent 4 years at an a16z-backed startup helping finance teams at startups like Cognition, Legora and Bridge automate revenue collection. The problem is 100x bigger in the enterprise, so they built Rex: agents that do the work end-to-end. Live in production with Synthesia.\n\n\n\n**Revenue ≠ cash**\n\nEnterprises invoice customers, then spend months chasing the money through email chains, PDFs and ancient web portals. A $1M invoice sits unpaid because one PO number didn't match.\n\nMultiply that across thousands of customers and you get 100+ person teams, often offshore, doing this by hand: collections, invoice submission, dispute resolution, deduction management, cash application. Order-to-cash is the most outsourced process in finance because the work needs judgment. Reading a customer's email and deciding whether their dispute is valid. Working out which of 14 open invoices a lump-sum payment covers. Knowing that this account always pays late but always pays, and that one needs escalating now.\n\nAR automation software has existed for 20 years and the teams never got smaller, because the tools organise the work while people still do it. Businesses invoice each other tens of trillions of dollars a year; the labour and outsourcing spend on collecting it is over $100B. Until now the only way to scale was headcount or a BPO contract.\n\n**What Rex does**\n\nRex connects to the ERP (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle), CRM (Salesforce), billing system and shared AR inbox, and learns how the team runs the process today. That knowledge becomes editable agent operating procedures: how to chase a Fortune 500 buyer vs a startup, which deductions get investigated vs written off, when a dispute goes to a human.\n\nThen agents run those procedures across thousands of accounts in parallel:\n\n* Collections and payment follow-ups, including the long tail no team gets to\n* Invoice submission and status tracking inside procurement portals (SAP Ariba, Coupa, Tungsten and hundreds of others)\n* Dispute and deduction investigation\n* Remittance processing and cash application\n* Responding to customer finance emails\n* Updating ERP, CRM and billing records\n* Routing exceptions to the team for approval\n\nPortals deserve a special mention: an increasing share of enterprise invoices must be submitted and tracked inside the buyer's procurement system. It's the work AR teams hate most and the work software vendors ignore. Rex treats it as core.\n\n**Is Rex a managed service or software?**\n\nEnterprises can partner with Rex as a managed service provider or let their team operate Rex. AR software (dunning tools, collections worklists, AR dashboards) organises work for a team to do. Rex agents do the work, and the finance team approves exceptions. With Rex, the team stops drowning in routine chasing and handles the judgment calls. Customers compare Rex to their next AR hire, their offshore team, or their BPO contract.\n\n**Can finance teams trust AI agents with collections?**\n\nAutonomy is earned, not switched on. Each procedure starts supervised: Rex proposes, the team approves. Once a procedure hits its accuracy bar for the account, it graduates and runs autonomously. Safe, high-volume work goes first; judgment-heavy edges stay gated as long as the team wants. Every action is logged with its full reasoning, so finance audits the system instead of babysitting it.\n\n**Traction**\n\n[Rex is live in production with enterprises like Synthesia](https://www.rex.inc/customers/synthesia), running collections, portal submissions, inbox triage and cash application. Cases that used to take weeks of back and forth resolve in minutes.\n\n**Get in touch**\n\nIf invoice volume is outgrowing the finance team, or order-to-cash runs on offshore headcount or a BPO contract, get in touch: [rex.inc](http://rex.inc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107722&key=user_uploads/466573/80aa1a0e-383d-43f5-93b4-4a97d086d306)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/S1S-rex-turn-enterprise-order-to-cash-into-an-autonomous-operation", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-07-27T18:08:15.052Z" } ] }, { "id": 32286, "name": "Definite", "slug": "definite", "former_names": [ "Ledgix", "Bylaw" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ea163685b0ad74eaec6a19637a061cdb5e63acae.png", "website": "https://www.usedefinite.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Definite is where finance teams build everyday back-office agents on one live model of their books. We plug into your ERP, ledger, payroll, and payments read-only and compile everything into one clean model that stays current as money moves. Your back-office team then builds agents on top in plain English. We never write back and we never move money. The agents are yours, the plumbing is ours.\r\n\r\nWe met in first year computer science at Waterloo and interned at Meta, Optiver, and BitGo. At Optiver they ran an n8n hackathon and the interns automated basically nothing. It couldn't talk to the systems that mattered. When we pitched banks and fintechs on agents, they kept telling us the same thing. The agent isn't the hard part, getting clean data out of their systems is.\r\n\r\nRight now, automating anything in a back office means engineers hand-stitching data from a dozen sources in different formats on different schedules. Tools like n8n and Workato assume your data is already clean and joined. In finance it never is. So the teams with the most repetitive work and smallest budgets get nothing.\r\n\r\nThe hard part is the compiler. Every source gets cleaned, matched, and joined into one live model of transactions, invoices, vendors, and payments, and it has to stay right as money lands every day. \r\n\r\nEveryone throws engineers at this. We're doing it once so nobody has to again. Every back office is getting agents eventually. Whoever owns the data they read from owns the thing all of them depend on, and eventually the books themselves. 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We're Gurshabd, Mazin and Farhan from Definite.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nProving to regulators that their books follow the rules is a constant, non-negotiable obligation for banks. Each report is thousands of numbers, personally signed off by an executive. Getting it wrong can mean a **fine up to a million dollars** over a single undetected error. Producing that proof is slow, and doesn't even guarantee it's correct. \n\nHere's where the current system breaks down:\n\n1. **Wasted Hours:** A controller pulls data from the core system into Excel and maps it line by line by hand. By regulators' own estimate, one quarterly filing takes weeks of employee time, time pulled from higher-value finance work every quarter.\n2. **False Confidence:** The software banks use to file checks formatting, not truth. A loan mapped to the wrong schedule line sails through every check. Nothing catches it until an examiner does, and by then it's not a mistake, it's a violation.\n\n**The Solution**\n\n**Report agents:** We connect to your books and our agents build the reports you owe.\n\n**Verification engine:** Every number is recomputed from source records and checked against a versioned rulebook, so each line carries its rule and source data.\n\n**Self-correcting agents:** When a check fails, the agent gets the reason and fixes it in seconds. Real exceptions come to your team with a drafted explanation, not a blank error. This loop is why our agents are the most accurate in finance.\n\n**Receipts:** Every check produces a tamper-evident receipt you can hand an examiner or auditor.\n\nYour team reviews and signs instead of building.\n\n**How we got here**\n\nGurshabd worked at BitGo, a regulated crypto custodian, where attestations proving customer assets matched the ledger were built by hand every period. Farhan worked at Meta where he delved extensively into machine learning and building AI agents. Mazin saw Optiver recheck daily regulatory numbers by hand, then built LLM agents at [Boosted.ai](http://Boosted.ai) and learned finance people won't act on AI output unless every number comes with its source.\n\nThe lesson from all three: in finance, producing a number is cheap, proving it is the job. On two public reporting benchmarks, DeepSeek V3 with our verification engine outperformed GPT-5 on reconciliation accuracy (FinBalance) at roughly 50× lower cost, and beat the entire published field on XBRL calculation validation (FinAuditing).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105798&key=user_uploads/2947446/1b80714c-9a38-4d02-a037-ab05ad2c9205)\n\n**The Ask**\n\n* Work at a bank, credit union, fintech or insurer on regulatory filings? Let's talk: , or text me: +1 519-619-5467\n* We’d also love an intro to a VP of Finance or Engineering at your partner bank (personal or business)\n\nFollow us: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/usedefinite/?viewAsMember=true), and [X](https://x.com/UseDefinite).\n\nWe'll be in the comments. 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It should be a function call.\n\nWe're Angelo and Akash, and we built Luca IQ, a new tax engine for accounting firms. One set of inputs in, a completed, filed return out in minutes. Not bolted onto decades out desktop software.\n\nFor CPA firms, that means more returns per preparer, less spend on labor, and a clean path off 30-year-old desktop software. For the PE groups acquiring and scaling firms, it means real operating leverage on the single most labor-intensive part of the business.\n\n\n\n**The problem.** \\~95% of US firms file their returns through just four companies, and all of them were built decades ago, for the desktop, and are closed. Firms are stuck running tax season on software that can't scale with them. Every modern AI tax tool just pushes data into that same closed software it can't control. Everyone rebuilt the interface.\n\n**What we built.** A new one, and we're opening it. A key principle: AI never does the tax math. 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