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CCH Tagetik buys finance time to think.
The company built in Lucca sells an escape from the monthly numbers chase. Its real test is what finance teams can do with the hours they get back.
HighRadius wants to get paid when the work gets done
The finance software company spent years teaching machines to match payments with invoices. Now it is putting a share of its fees on the results.
Tamir Sigal Wants Marketing to Give People Their Time Back
The Trintech CMO has spent nearly three decades translating difficult software into human stakes. His method mixes customer evidence, disciplined alignment and a standing invitation to make a new mistake.
BlackLine Had One Customer and a Failed Product. Then the Customer Saved It.
A failed wealth-management product left Therese Tucker with one customer and no room for vanity. Twenty-five years later, BlackLine is betting that the same obsession with audit trails can turn AI from a finance risk into finance infrastructure.
Trintech’s 23-Billion-Transaction Bet: Let AI Close the Books - But Keep It on a Leash
The 39-year-old finance-software specialist wants AI to chase mismatches, draft journals and explain variances. Its real product, though, is permission: proof that automation can move fast without making the auditors nervous.
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 Oracle Whisperers Who Named Themselves After a Bike Race
A Boston consultancy borrowed its name from cycling - the pack that shares the wind so no one rider burns out. Sixteen years later it is one of Oracle's go-to partners for the unglamorous, high-stakes work of moving a company's books to the cloud.
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.
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.
Maxima
Maxima is an AI-native accounting automation platform building autonomous agents that do the month-end close instead of just coordinating it. Its 24/7 agent, Max, sits on top of a company's existing ERP - pulling data from banks, billing, payroll and warehouses - to prepare journal entries, reconciliations and variance explanations with a re-performable audit trail, so accountants log in to work that's already done and ready for review. Founded in 2024 by veterans of Rubrik, Netflix and Meta, Maxima raised $41M in Seed and Series A in November 2025 and counts Rippling, Scale AI, SpotOn and Bilt Rewards among its customers.
RightRev
RightRev is a revenue recognition and automation platform for the office of the CFO, built to handle the messiest parts of ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance at high transaction volume. Founded in 2020 by Jagan Reddy - the accountant-turned-founder who built the original RevPro/Leeyo revenue engine later acquired by Zuora - the company sells both a standalone, API-first product and a native Salesforce Revenue Cloud application, plus an AI layer called Revi. It ingests contracts, orders, invoices and usage data from upstream billing and CPQ systems, applies configurable revenue rules, and produces journal entries, waterfalls and audit-ready reports. Backed by Norwest, Salesforce Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Innovius Capital and Cheyenne Ventures, RightRev has raised more than $31 million and counts Snowflake, Drata, Epicor, Docebo, CAE and LogicMonitor among its customers.
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.