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Campfire Is Betting Your Next CFO Will Fire the 1990s ERP - and Keep a Human on the Books
After surviving an acquisition with the books trapped in spreadsheets, John Glasgow built the finance system he wished he had. Campfire now wants to replace the old ERP without asking accountants to surrender the controls.
The ERP Fork That Decides How Your Company Grows
Microsoft Business Central lets smaller companies buy finance software one user at a time. Workday sells a broader operating model - and the real choice is how much company you are ready to redesign.
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.
Aleph
Aleph is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform that lets finance teams keep working in the spreadsheets they already know while syncing live data from 150+ source systems. Founded in 2020 by Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, the New York company pairs a web-based data platform with Excel and Google Sheets add-ins and AI that automates data cleaning, variance analysis, and reporting. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Picus Capital, and Y Combinator, Aleph serves customers including Webflow, Turo, Notion, Zapier, Harvey, and Chess.com.
Workday
Workday is a Pleasanton, California cloud software company that runs the core people and money systems for large organizations. Founded in 2005 by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri after Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Workday built a single-code-base, subscription-delivered platform for human capital management, financial management, planning, and analytics. It has grown into one of the largest enterprise SaaS vendors, serving thousands of organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is now pushing agentic AI deep into HR and finance workflows.