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Daloopa gives Wall Street’s numbers a paper trail
An analyst’s hatred of copying numbers became a financial data business. Now Daloopa is bringing the same insistence on checkable facts to AI - and back into Excel.
SplashBI and the Secret Life of the Spreadsheet
The unglamorous work of joining business data turns out to be a useful preparation for AI. SplashBI built its business around the reports people already needed - and the tools they refused to give up.
Albert Gozzi
He started Aleph in a pandemic apartment because every finance tool he'd used either felt ancient or tried to pull him out of the spreadsheet. Then he heard no 75 times - and raised a Series B anyway.
o11
o11 is a Y Combinator (W26) startup building AI agents that live inside the enterprise apps finance teams already use - Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Google Workspace. Rather than answering questions in a sidebar, its agents do the work: generating three-statement models, investment committee memos, CIMs, buyer lists, and decks from natural-language prompts. Its customers include investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, and asset managers.
Coefficient
Coefficient is a Palo Alto software company that pipes live business data into the spreadsheets people already use. Its no-code connectors link Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel to more than 100 systems - Salesforce, HubSpot, Snowflake, QuickBooks, Shopify and more - with two-way sync, scheduled refreshes, alerts and AI-assisted dashboards. Founded in 2015 by Navneet Loiwal and Tommy Tsai, Coefficient has raised $24.7M and counts Zendesk, Spotify, Miro and Klaviyo among its users.
Zeit AI
Zeit AI is a YC S24 enterprise analytics startup founded by two former Palantir engineers who believe business intelligence should require nothing more than plain English. Their product, ZeitMind, lets non-technical users query Excel files, CSVs, ERP systems, and databases using natural language - turning weeks of analyst work into seconds of typing. Backed by Y Combinator, Oxford Seed Fund, and ACE Ventures, Zeit AI is quietly rewriting how enterprises turn raw data into decisions.