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Trullion and the Number That Wouldn’t Explain Itself
A lease can hide the fact an accountant needs on page 73. Trullion’s bet is that software should find it, calculate the consequence, and keep the evidence close enough for an auditor to argue back.
The Deal Was Signed. Then the Spreadsheet Took Over.
Turnstile is betting that the most dangerous moment in a software sale comes after everyone celebrates - when a human must translate a bespoke contract into a bill that is actually correct.
The Ledger That Refused to Forget
Quanta’s cleverest idea is also its least glamorous: before an AI can explain the books, somebody has to make the books worth explaining.
Lucanet Wants to Close the Books - and the Tabs
Lucanet turns the month-end maze into one governed finance workspace. The trade is classic enterprise software: serious accounting muscle, a real implementation, and a price you have to ask for.
Bench Wants Your Books - and Your Trust
Bench offers something many owners want badly: clean books without a second job. After an abrupt shutdown and rapid relaunch, the service is useful again - but choosing it now means weighing convenience against control.
Puzzle Wants to Close the Books Before the Books Close You
Puzzle turns the month-end close from a clerical scavenger hunt into a queue of work an accountant can inspect. Its new chapter pairs that live ledger with humans who still have to sign their names.
Datarails Wants to Save Excel From Excel Hell
Datarails keeps finance teams in the spreadsheet they know, then adds the controls, live data and AI that Excel forgot. The bargain is simple: your models survive, but your spreadsheet habits come along too.
Planful Makes Peace With Excel, Then Puts It on a Leash
Planful gives finance teams one governed place to plan, close, consolidate and report, while letting Excel keep a seat at the table. The payoff is fewer version-control mysteries; the catch is that a serious platform still demands a serious implementation.
The Tax Man Got an API. Sovos Built the Plumbing for Everyone Else.
Governments now inspect transactions in real time. Sovos sells the software layer that keeps invoices moving, taxes calculated and finance teams out of the penalty box - across nearly 200 countries.
Addepar Built the $9 Trillion Answer to One Expensive Question: What Do We Actually Own?
Addepar turned the family office's ugliest spreadsheet problem into a global data platform. The software is powerful, costly and increasingly difficult to replace - which is precisely the point.
The Accountant Who Found 20 Bad Leases - Then Built the Software 8,700 Companies Use to Close the Books
George Azih did not begin with a pitch deck. He began with an audit sample in which 20 of 20 leases were wrong. The fix became LeaseQuery, the niche SaaS company now trying to turn its hard-won accounting credibility into a much broader intelligent subledger.
Lasse Kalkar Learned Finance the Hard Way - Then Built a Company to Make It Flow
Before LiveFlow served thousands of finance teams, its founder sold football tricks, ran a coffee shop without knowing its true margins, watched a crypto app fail and learned how Revolut moved at speed. The through-line is less glamorous than fintech usually sounds: find the tedious work, then remove it.
The Accountant Who Turned Tax Season Into an Entrepreneur's Financial Operating System
Most accountants document what already happened. Gauvreau built a 100-plus-person firm around helping entrepreneurs decide what happens next - then connected the books, tax plan, legal structure and growth advice under one roof.
The 124,000-Person Machine Behind Ontario’s Three Most Valuable Letters
CPA Ontario is part regulator, part school and part professional network. Its latest bet is that tighter provincial control can make the designation faster to adapt - without making it any less Canadian.
Mary Antony Is Teaching Financial Statements to Keep Their Own Books
After years spent watching expert accountants burn hours on formatting, cross-checking and document handoffs, the former controller built Inscope to give the work a reliable system of record.
The $120 Billion Spreadsheet Problem Canopy Wants to Retire
The richest portfolios often run on the poorest plumbing. Canopy turns bank feeds, PDFs and private assets into one reconciled record - then gives family offices and wealth managers something rare: a number they can defend.
KPMG US
KPMG built its American name by checking the numbers. Now the 129-year-old firm is betting that the same instinct for evidence, controls and accountability can make enterprise AI useful - and trusted.
Cashboard
Cashboard is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed (S22) startup building a semantic layer that sits between a company's financial data and AI. It stores the metrics, data models, mappings and permissions that let AI agents - and finance teams - produce accurate, governed FP&A work: reports, dashboards and analysis pulled from 900+ connected systems. Founder Julian Rowlands frames the goal as turning AI into a 'trusted FP&A machine' and, eventually, the 'solo CFO.' The company raised a $5M seed led by FINTOP Capital in July 2026.
YC Partners
YC Partners is a Frederick, Maryland based fractional CFO firm that embeds licensed CPAs and finance executives into small and mid-market companies, typically in the $10M-$50M revenue range. Founded and led by CPA Nicole Sithithavorn, the firm delivers strategic financial leadership, GAAP reporting, forecasting, and M&A support on month-to-month terms, positioned as roughly 80% of the value of a full-time CFO at 20-40% of the cost.
Wafeq وافِق
Wafeq is a cloud accounting and e-invoicing platform built for small and medium businesses across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Founded in 2019 by Nadim Alameddine, it gives SMEs and accounting firms ZATCA- and FTA-compliant invoicing, VAT and corporate tax reporting, payroll, inventory, and 40+ financial reports in one Arabic-and-English interface. The platform processes roughly 2 million invoices worth about $400 million every month and serves more than 10,000 customers, with the vast majority of activity in Saudi Arabia.
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.
Concourse
Concourse builds enterprise-grade AI agents purpose-built for corporate finance teams. The platform connects directly to a company's existing financial stack - ERPs, accounting systems, data warehouses and billing platforms - and lets finance, accounting and data teams query, analyze and report on their numbers using natural language. Every result is traceable back to the underlying SQL and Python logic, addressing the accuracy and audit demands that generic LLMs cannot meet. Founded in 2023 by former Jeeves operators Matthieu Hafemeister and Ted Michaels, the New York company raised a $12M Series A in January 2026 and counts Palo Alto Networks, Front and Tecovas among its customers.
Inscope
Inscope is a San Francisco-based, AI-native financial reporting platform that automates the manual, spreadsheet-and-email grind of preparing GAAP-compliant financial statements. Founded in 2023 by former controllers Mary Antony and Kelsey Gootnick alongside CTO Jared Tibshraeny, it uses large language models to generate statements, footnotes, cash flow statements and audit-ready documentation directly from ERP data - automating more than 60% of the preparation work for accounting firms and enterprise finance teams. The company raised a $14.5M Series A led by Norwest in February 2026, bringing total funding to $18.8M.
LiveFlow
LiveFlow is an AI-native accounting and financial operations platform that connects tools like QuickBooks Online and Xero to live dashboards in Google Sheets and Excel, automating financial reporting, multi-entity consolidation and month-end close. Founded in 2021 by former Revolut employees, the Y Combinator-backed company has grown from a spreadsheet-sync tool into 'Flow,' an agentic ERP used by more than 6,000 businesses - including Wendy's and Crumbl Cookies - and accounting firms such as BDO and KLR.
PJ Patel
PJ Patel is Co-CEO and Senior Managing Director of Valuation Research Corporation (VRC), the New York-headquartered valuation firm that puts a number on the intangible - brands, goodwill, illiquid securities, complex derivatives. A CFA and Accredited Senior Appraiser, he leads VRC's global initiatives through the Valuation Research Group (VRG) network and is a frequent voice on ASC 805, 350/360 and 820 in accounting circles.
KeepingCount
KeepingCount is an industry-focused outsourced accounting and bookkeeping platform that takes the finance function off business owners' plates. Founded in 2023 by Jeff Russell and backed by Housatonic Partners, the company is building vertical-specific brands - real estate, construction, e-commerce, vacation rentals, life sciences, consumer products and professional services - staffed by accountants who specialize in each industry rather than the traditional geography-based generalist model. KeepingCount delivers accounting, advisory (CFO/controller), tax and payroll services on platforms like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online, managing more than $250 million in annual client revenue.
Standard Metrics
Standard Metrics (formerly Quaestor) is a San Francisco-based financial data and portfolio monitoring platform for venture capital. It automates the messy work of collecting, standardizing, and benchmarking metrics from private portfolio companies, giving investors real-time performance data and giving founders a single source of truth for investor reporting. More than 100 VC firms track thousands of portfolio companies on the platform, which now connects directly to LLMs like Claude and ChatGPT through a Model Context Protocol server.
Jerry Connelly
Jerry Connelly is the Chief Executive Officer of KeepingCount, a remote-first outsourced accounting and advisory firm that gives growing small businesses and nonprofits the bookkeeping, reporting, and fractional-CFO horsepower they usually cannot afford to hire in-house. Built around the promise of 'better numbers for growing businesses,' KeepingCount pairs platform technologies like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online with hands-on accounting teams serving construction, consumer products, professional services, real estate, life sciences, and vacation-rental clients. Originally headquartered in Boise, Idaho, the company now runs as a distributed organization, and Connelly leads it with a stated emphasis on values - conscientious, disciplined, gracious, integrity, and serving all clients.
Justin Johnson
Justin Johnson, CFA, is Senior Managing Director and Co-CEO of Valuation Research Corporation (VRC), a national valuation and advisory firm founded in 1975. He built VRC's San Francisco office from scratch into one of the firm's leading practices, with a deep focus on private equity funds and their portfolio companies. Since August 2017 he has shared the chief executive seat with PJ Patel, splitting the country between them - Johnson runs the West Coast and Central regions while staying hands-on in technical work on solvency opinions, fairness opinions, and complex securities valuation.
VRC (Valuation Research Corporation)
Valuation Research Corporation (VRC) is a full-service, independent global valuation and advisory firm that has provided objective, supportable conclusions of value since 1975. With a U.S. team of 300+ professionals across a dozen offices and an international network of nearly 1,500 valuation experts through Valuation Research Group, VRC serves private equity funds, financial sponsors, and acquisitive public and private companies with fairness opinions, solvency opinions, financial-reporting valuations, tax valuations, and the pricing of complex, illiquid securities.