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Vic.ai wants to give finance its Fridays back
An invoice is easy to scan and surprisingly hard to finish. Vic.ai is building a business around the coding, approvals, payments and awkward questions that come after it.
The Receipt Was Never the Point
Veryfi spent years teaching machines to read the slips of paper everyone else wanted to throw away. Then it discovered that the reader, not the receipt app, was the valuable part.
Dext built a business on the receipts nobody wants to type
Receipt Bank grew by tackling the drudgery before the ledger. Now part of IRIS, Dext is expanding into data checks, AI assistance and payments - with a business case that still comes down to minutes saved.
Rossum Taught the Machines to Read the Paperwork Nobody Could Kill
The Czech-born document-AI company made peace with the invoice, trained a specialist model to understand it, and sold the result to enterprises drowning in exceptions. Coupa’s 2026 acquisition turns that stubborn paperwork layer into part of a much larger spend-management machine.
The 35-Year Fintech Bet That Made the Bar Tab Boring - and Built a Data Business
Fintech spent roughly 15 years winning state-by-state acceptance for electronic alcohol payments. Now the same plumbing connects 326,000 businesses - and offers a useful playbook for founders who mistake a boring workflow for a small market.
The AP Fight Between a Bot and a Free Bank Transfer
Stampli starts with the invoice and automates the work around it. Melio starts with the payment, keeps the entry price low, and asks small businesses to buy more control only when the workflow gets complicated.
AppZen
AppZen built its business around an unglamorous but expensive corporate blind spot: the receipts, invoices and card charges that finance teams cannot inspect one by one. Now its AI is moving from flagging suspicious spend to resolving the work itself - while leaving the company’s existing finance stack in place.
Cedalio
Cedalio is an AI agent platform for the office of the CFO that automates accounts payable, procurement, and utility-bill processing. Its specialized agents read invoices and bills from email, portals, and drives using vision models, run 3-way matching against purchase orders and receipts, flag duplicates and anomalies, and handle LATAM tax compliance before data reaches the ERP. Founded by ex-Wolox engineers and backed by Y Combinator (S23), the company began as a blockchain-verifiable database and evolved through sustainability data into finance automation, keeping auditability as its throughline.
Cifrato
Cifrato is a Colombian, Y Combinator-backed (W25) startup building an AI accountant for accounting firms and retail businesses across Latin America. Its AI agents run end-to-end accounting workflows - pulling electronic invoices straight from tax authorities like Colombia's DIAN, classifying them, applying taxes, reconciling payments, and pushing accounting-ready data into ERP and POS systems. Founded in 2025 by Juan Pisco and Yerson Cacua, the company reached roughly $1M ARR and processed over a million invoices for 270+ clients within its first year.
Invofox
Invofox is an AI document-processing platform that turns invoices, receipts, payslips, and shipping papers into clean, structured JSON through a single API. Built for software companies rather than end users, it pairs high-accuracy OCR and machine-learning models with human-in-the-loop verification so fintechs, accounting platforms, lenders, and logistics operators can automate payments and bookkeeping without anyone re-typing a document. Founded by three Spanish mathematics and computer-science graduates, backed by Y Combinator (S22), and now processing tens of millions of documents a year.
Parabola
Parabola is a San Francisco-based no-code data automation platform that lets operations and finance teams turn messy, recurring, spreadsheet-driven processes into transparent, auditable AI-powered workflows. Users describe a process in plain language or drag-and-drop building blocks, and Parabola builds a documented agent that pulls data from PDFs, emails, spreadsheets and APIs, cleans and transforms it, and runs on a schedule. Founded by Alex Yaseen and backed by OpenView, Matrix, and Thrive Capital, the company focuses on ecommerce, retail, CPG, freight and logistics teams that need to automate work that traditionally required an engineer.
Aavenir
Aavenir is a Texas-based enterprise software company that builds AI-powered source-to-pay and contract lifecycle management (CLM) applications natively on the ServiceNow platform. Founded in 2019 by Jesal Mehta, the company uses AI agents, machine learning, and natural language processing to automate contracting, sourcing, invoicing, vendor onboarding, and obligation management so procurement, legal, and finance teams can cut cycle times, reduce risk, and gain end-to-end visibility across the vendor and contract lifecycle.
Auditoria.AI
Auditoria.AI is a Santa Clara-based enterprise software company that builds agentic AI agents for corporate finance teams, automating accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows across major ERP systems. Its SmartBots act as digital teammates that digitize invoices, chase collections, answer vendor and customer inquiries, and surface real-time cash intelligence - all governed by company policies and auditable at every step. Founded in 2019 by serial entrepreneur Rohit Gupta, the company processes more than $9B in invoicing and $2.4B in collections annually and raised a $38M Series B in early 2025.
Bo Davis
Bo Davis is the co-founder and CEO of MarginEdge, an Arlington, Virginia restaurant management and bill-payment platform he launched in 2015 with fellow restaurateur Roy Phillips. Before software, Davis ran restaurants - he founded Wasabi, a group of conveyor-belt sushi spots in D.C. and Boston. Before restaurants, he sold an education software company, Prometheus, to Blackboard in 2002 and served in the Peace Corps in Macedonia. MarginEdge, which turns a shoebox of restaurant invoices into real-time cost data, has raised more than $120 million and serves thousands of restaurants across North America.
MarginEdge
MarginEdge is a restaurant management software company that turns the back office paperwork of running a restaurant - invoices, food costs, inventory, vendor payments - into real-time, actionable data. Founded in 2015 by restaurant veterans and technologists, the platform digitizes invoices, tracks theoretical vs. actual food costs, delivers daily profit-and-loss reports, and lets operators pay vendor bills with no added fees. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, it now serves more than 10,000 restaurants across the U.S. and Canada.
Nanonets
Nanonets is a San Francisco-based AI company that turns messy, unstructured documents - invoices, receipts, contracts, claims - into clean, structured data that flows directly into systems like SAP and Salesforce. Founded in 2017 by Sarthak Jain and Prathamesh Juvatkar, the company builds OCR and deep-learning agents that automate the dull back-office work nobody wants to do.
Ofer Feldman
Ofer Feldman is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stampli, a Mountain View-based AI-powered accounts payable automation company he co-founded with his brother Eyal Feldman in 2015. A computer engineer by training from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ofer spent over a decade building software across defense, enterprise, and healthcare sectors before channeling that depth into Stampli. Under his technical leadership, Stampli has grown to process over $100 billion in invoices annually for 1,600+ businesses, raised $145.7 million in total funding including a $61M Series D led by Blackstone in 2023, and pioneered Cognitive AI that brings human-level PO matching to finance teams worldwide.
Stampli
Stampli is an AI-powered accounts payable and procure-to-pay platform that centers all invoice communication, approvals, and payments around the invoice itself. Founded in 2015 by brothers Eyal and Ofer Feldman, the Mountain View company is best known for Billy the Bot, an AI agent trained on more than $150B in annual spend that codes invoices, matches POs, and flags duplicates across 70+ ERPs.
Eyal Feldman
Eyal Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Stampli, the Mountain View-based AI-powered accounts payable automation platform that processes over $100 billion in annual invoices for 1,700+ enterprises. A former SAP implementation specialist turned fintech founder, Feldman built Stampli around a simple belief: that AP should be a collaborative process, not a bureaucratic bottleneck. Under his leadership, Stampli has raised $145.7M in total funding, earned the #10 Best CEO of 2024 recognition from Comparably, and become a G2 Leader in 9 categories for AP automation software.