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The Back Office Has Too Many Front Doors
Series wants a finance team to stop acting as the human bridge between banks, payroll, bills and contracts. Its answer is a menu of connected software, with the identity of each business entity at the center.
eFlexervices Has a Pitch for Overloaded Teams: Outsource the Headache
Born in 2001, the family-rooted company pairs Filipino specialists with U.S. businesses, then stays for the payroll, hardware, coaching and compliance. The wager is that the management layer - not the salary gap - makes offshoring stick.
The Startup That Thinks AI Finance Needs Better Plumbing, Not Another Dashboard
Viewz raised $7 million to rip out the tangle of apps behind every finance team and replace them with one governed ledger. The bet: fix the pipes before you bolt on the AI.
Cedalio
Cedalio is an AI agent platform for the office of the CFO that automates accounts payable, procurement, and utility-bill processing. Its specialized agents read invoices and bills from email, portals, and drives using vision models, run 3-way matching against purchase orders and receipts, flag duplicates and anomalies, and handle LATAM tax compliance before data reaches the ERP. Founded by ex-Wolox engineers and backed by Y Combinator (S23), the company began as a blockchain-verifiable database and evolved through sustainability data into finance automation, keeping auditability as its throughline.
Cledara
Cledara is a software management and spend platform that helps growing companies discover, buy, manage and cancel their SaaS subscriptions from one place. By pairing virtual cards with a system of record for every application, Cledara gives finance and IT teams real-time visibility into software costs and usage, automates invoice collection and accounting, and enforces approval workflows. Founded in 2018 by Cristina Vila Vives and Brad van Leeuwen, it serves 1,000+ customers across 32 countries.
Fazeshift
Fazeshift is a San Francisco AI company building autonomous agents that run the accounts receivable process end to end - generating invoices, matching payments, chasing collections, reconciling cash and updating systems of record. Founded in 2023 by Caitlin Leksana and Timmy Galvin and launched out of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, the company sits as an intelligent control layer across ERPs, CRMs, bank portals and email, and says it now automates more than 90% of manual AR work for its enterprise customers.