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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.
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.
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.