financial-planning-and-analysis
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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.
Pivot (YC S22)
Pivot (YC S22) is a San Francisco startup building an AI FP&A analyst - an 'AI workforce' that helps founders and finance teams visualize, analyze, and model company financial data faster than Excel. Founded by Raimie Tang and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2022 batch, Pivot turns raw transaction-level data into reports and dashboards in minutes, automating the grunt work of financial planning and analysis for early-stage companies trying to scale.
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.
Paro
Paro is a Chicago-based, AI-powered marketplace that connects businesses and accounting firms with vetted fractional finance and accounting experts - from bookkeepers and controllers to fractional CFOs. Founded in 2015, it pairs its proprietary matching algorithms across 60+ industries and 250+ skill sets with data tools and advisory insight, aiming to become the go-to resource for finance and accounting solutions as the profession faces a deepening talent shortage.