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DualEntry wants to give finance its month back
An expensive ERP ordeal sent two founders into the accounting software business. Their wager: a better ledger begins with a less painful move.
Gappify and the invoice that hasn’t arrived
The month ends. The bills do not. Gappify turns the awkward gap between work done and invoices received into an accounting workflow with a paper trail.
Trullion and the Number That Wouldn’t Explain Itself
A lease can hide the fact an accountant needs on page 73. Trullion’s bet is that software should find it, calculate the consequence, and keep the evidence close enough for an auditor to argue back.
The Accountant Who Never Closes the Spreadsheet
Truewind wants AI to prepare the untidy work behind a monthly close: the statements, schedules and reconciliations that still live in stray files. The accountant keeps the final say.
The Tax Return That Refused to Stay a Tax Return
Accrual began with the least forgiving calendar in accounting: tax season. After thousands of real returns, its next bet is that the client record should keep working when April is over.
The Ledger That Refused to Forget
Quanta’s cleverest idea is also its least glamorous: before an AI can explain the books, somebody has to make the books worth explaining.
Puzzle Wants to Close the Books Before the Books Close You
Puzzle turns the month-end close from a clerical scavenger hunt into a queue of work an accountant can inspect. Its new chapter pairs that live ledger with humans who still have to sign their names.
Parker Gilbert Is Teaching Accounting Software to Show Its Work
After living through the spreadsheet drag of month-end close, Numeric's co-founder turned an operator's irritation into a broader argument: financial software should preserve context, invite scrutiny, and give accountants time to think.
Erin Kim Is Teaching AI to Survive Month-End
The former banker spent years turning Carta's accounting rituals into software. Now she and a trusted collaborator are building Mesh around a harder promise: AI that shows its work.
Juan Pisco Left Travel Hype for Accounting's Hard Parts
After selling a travel app used by millions, Juan Pisco chose a quieter problem: invoices. His bet is that the next useful AI company in Latin America will win by mastering the work everyone else finds too tedious to touch.
Ashley Schagrin Wants Accounting to Stop Working Around the Work
After KPMG, Dropbox, and nine years inside Pilot, the CPA-turned-operator has a clear thesis for AI accounting: automate the workaround, keep the judgment, and give people back the client conversation.
Cifrato
Cifrato is a Colombian, Y Combinator-backed (W25) startup building an AI accountant for accounting firms and retail businesses across Latin America. Its AI agents run end-to-end accounting workflows - pulling electronic invoices straight from tax authorities like Colombia's DIAN, classifying them, applying taxes, reconciling payments, and pushing accounting-ready data into ERP and POS systems. Founded in 2025 by Juan Pisco and Yerson Cacua, the company reached roughly $1M ARR and processed over a million invoices for 270+ clients within its first year.
Blue Onion
Blue Onion is a New York-based fintech company that builds an automated financial subledger and reconciliation platform for e-commerce and retail brands. Its data engine ingests transactions from order systems, payment processors, marketplaces and bank accounts, then reconciles every order, payout, fee, refund and deposit into a single source of truth - letting finance teams close their books daily with guaranteed accuracy and feed clean, structured financial data into AI workflows.
Docyt
Docyt is a Santa Clara, California AI company that automates accounting and bookkeeping for small and mid-sized businesses, accounting firms, and multi-location operators. Its platform captures documents, reconciles the general ledger continuously, categorizes transactions, and produces real-time financial reports, layering on top of QuickBooks rather than replacing it. In 2025 the company launched HpAI (High Precision Accounting Intelligence), an accounting-specific AI engine trained on 128 billion accounting data points, with an initial vertical focus on hospitality and hotels. Founded in 2016 by Sid Saxena and Sugam Pandey, Docyt has raised roughly $27.2M to date.
Inscope
Inscope is a San Francisco-based, AI-native financial reporting platform that automates the manual, spreadsheet-and-email grind of preparing GAAP-compliant financial statements. Founded in 2023 by former controllers Mary Antony and Kelsey Gootnick alongside CTO Jared Tibshraeny, it uses large language models to generate statements, footnotes, cash flow statements and audit-ready documentation directly from ERP data - automating more than 60% of the preparation work for accounting firms and enterprise finance teams. The company raised a $14.5M Series A led by Norwest in February 2026, bringing total funding to $18.8M.
Numeric
Numeric is a San Francisco-based, AI-native accounting platform that automates the month-end close for controllers, CFOs and senior accountants. Founded in 2020 by Parker Gilbert, Anthony Alvernaz and Andrew Bihl, it unifies close management, analytics and cash reconciliation into one system, using AI to draft flux (variance) explanations, reconcile accounts and flag anomalies in transaction data. Companies including Brex, Plaid, Wealthfront, OpenAI and Betterment use Numeric to close their books faster and with fewer manual steps. The company has raised roughly $89 million to date, capped by a $51 million Series B in November 2025.
Sohel Roopani
Sohel Roopani is the co-founder and CEO of Exponent, a New York fintech building a financial operating system for America's multi-unit franchise operators. A former Visa and Stripe executive with an MBA from Columbia Business School, he raised more than $40 million in combined equity and credit to underwrite the operators behind Burger King, Dunkin', Buffalo Wild Wings and roughly 10,000 other franchised storefronts, replacing spreadsheets and month-end closes with charge cards, term loans and AI-powered bookkeeping.
Stacks
Stacks is a London-based, AI-native enterprise finance platform that automates the month-end close. Its agentic AI handles the most manual workflows in accounting - reconciliations, journal entries and variance analysis - so finance teams can shift from process execution to analysis and decision-making. Founded by former Uber product lead Albert Malikov with a team drawn from Uber, Plaid, Mollie and Miro, Stacks raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026 and counts 30+ enterprise customers including Pleo, Epidemic Sound, Cleo, Bloom & Wild and Nivoda.
Albert Malikov
Albert Malikov is the founder and CEO of Stacks, a London-based startup building agentic AI for enterprise accounting and the month-end financial close. A former Head of International Product at Plaid and a product lead on Uber's Money team, he raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026, less than a year after emerging from stealth, with customers including Epidemic Sound, Pleo and Bloom & Wild closing their books 50-60% faster.
Digits
Digits is an AI-native accounting platform building the world's first Agentic General Ledger - software that autonomously categorizes transactions, reconciles accounts, sends invoices, pays bills, and produces real-time financials for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2018 by Crashlytics alumni Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, it claims to automate up to 95% of bookkeeping work.