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The Godfather of Revenue Recognition Is Not Done Yet
He built the first revenue recognition software in 2009, sold it to Zuora, then walked away to do it again - properly this time. A story about second acts in an unglamorous corner of accounting.
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.
Rohit Gupta
Rohit Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Auditoria.AI, a Santa Clara startup that builds AI agents for corporate finance teams. A serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years in enterprise software, he previously founded the cloud-security company Palerra (acquired by Oracle in 2016) and ran the Remedy IT Service Management division at BMC Software. He started Auditoria in 2019 to bring automation to the back office of finance, and in 2025 raised a $38M Series B to push the company into the agentic-AI era.
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.
RightRev
RightRev is a revenue recognition and automation platform for the office of the CFO, built to handle the messiest parts of ASC 606 and IFRS 15 compliance at high transaction volume. Founded in 2020 by Jagan Reddy - the accountant-turned-founder who built the original RevPro/Leeyo revenue engine later acquired by Zuora - the company sells both a standalone, API-first product and a native Salesforce Revenue Cloud application, plus an AI layer called Revi. It ingests contracts, orders, invoices and usage data from upstream billing and CPQ systems, applies configurable revenue rules, and produces journal entries, waterfalls and audit-ready reports. Backed by Norwest, Salesforce Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Innovius Capital and Cheyenne Ventures, RightRev has raised more than $31 million and counts Snowflake, Drata, Epicor, Docebo, CAE and LogicMonitor among its customers.
Abacum
Abacum is an AI-native financial planning and analysis (FP&A) platform built for the office of the CFO. Founded in 2020 by former finance operators Julio Martinez and Jorge Lluch, it pulls financial and operational data into one place so finance teams can forecast revenue, model scenarios, plan headcount, automate reports, and trade spreadsheet drudgery for strategic decision-making. Backed by Scale Venture Partners, Atomico, Y Combinator and others, Abacum has raised over $90M and serves hundreds of mid-market companies across 31 countries, including Strava, Aiven, JG Wentworth and Mastercam.
Stacks
Stacks is a London-based, AI-native enterprise finance platform that automates the month-end close. Its agentic AI handles the most manual workflows in accounting - reconciliations, journal entries and variance analysis - so finance teams can shift from process execution to analysis and decision-making. Founded by former Uber product lead Albert Malikov with a team drawn from Uber, Plaid, Mollie and Miro, Stacks raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed in February 2026 and counts 30+ enterprise customers including Pleo, Epidemic Sound, Cleo, Bloom & Wild and Nivoda.