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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.
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.