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Monk and the small obstacles keeping your money hostage
A signed contract is a promise. Monk is building the machinery that turns it into cash, one missing purchase order and awkward follow-up at a time.
The Invoice Was Sent. Then the Real Work Began.
Quadient Accounts Receivable Automation grew from YayPay's bet that collecting money should be a system, not a scavenger hunt through inboxes. Its best evidence is in the days finance teams got back.
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.
The $257 Billion Plumbing Job: How Versapay Turned Accounts Receivable Into Software
Versapay spent two decades learning that the hard part of B2B payments is not moving money. It is explaining what the money was for - and getting that answer back into the books without a scavenger hunt.
The startup teaching 30-year-old concrete ERPs to take a credit card
Payra bootstrapped its way into a $200 billion corner of the economy that still runs on paper checks and spreadsheets - then took $15 million to speed it up.
Peakflo
Peakflo is a Singapore-founded, Y Combinator-backed (W22) finance automation platform that puts B2B accounts receivable and accounts payable on autopilot. It connects to accounting systems and ERPs to automate invoice collections, bill payments, expense reimbursements and reconciliation, helping finance teams get paid faster, cut vendor payment time and reclaim thousands of hours a month. Positioned as the AI-native alternative to legacy AP/AR tools for the mid-market and Southeast Asia.
Growfin
Growfin is a B2B SaaS company that builds an AI-powered accounts receivable (AR) automation platform - effectively a 'Finance CRM' - that helps finance teams track invoices, automate collections, match and post payments, and forecast cash inflow. Founded in 2020 by ex-Freshworks product and engineering leaders Aravind Gopalan and Raja Jayaraman, the company connects finance, sales, and customer success teams to accelerate cash collection and give CFOs visibility and predictability over receivables.
Billtrust
Billtrust is a cloud-based fintech that automates the entire order-to-cash and invoice-to-cash cycle for B2B businesses - credit decisioning, online ordering, invoice delivery, payments, cash application, and collections. Founded in 2001 by Flint Lane, it went public via SPAC in 2021 (Nasdaq: BTRS) and was taken private by EQT in late 2022 for about $1.7 billion. Its Business Payments Network connects buyers, suppliers, and banks to move trillions in B2B payments with far less manual work.