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Datarails built a future for finance by refusing to fire Excel
The spreadsheet was never going quietly. Datarails built its business around that fact - and is now betting that the same financial data can feed whatever AI comes next.
Mosaic.tech and the cost of waiting for an answer
Three finance veterans built Mosaic to shorten the journey from scattered data to a decision. Its next chapter, as HiBob’s Bob Finance, puts hiring plans and financial plans in the same conversation.
Planful and the Price of Being Late
A budget can be perfectly accurate and arrive too late to matter. Planful sells finance teams a way to shorten the distance between knowing what happened and deciding what to do next.
Julio Martinez
Julio Martinez is the co-founder and CEO of Abacum, an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform he launched with Jorge Lluch during the first week of Spain's COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020. A former M&A lawyer turned Citigroup banker turned fintech venture builder, he built the product he wished he had had during two decades inside finance. Abacum has raised more than $100 million from investors including Atomico, Creandum, Scale Venture Partners, Cathay Innovation and Y Combinator, and now serves hundreds of mid-market companies across more than 30 countries from offices in New York, London and Barcelona.
Frank Calderoni
Frank Calderoni is a tech-industry lifer who spent a decade as Cisco's CFO, then jumped into the CEO seat at Anaplan in 2017, taking the connected-planning company through its 2018 IPO and a $10.7B sale to Thoma Bravo in 2022. He briefly ran Velocity Global, sits on Adobe's board as Lead Director, and wrote 'Upstanding,' a book arguing that company character is a competitive moat.