Puzzle has raised a $15 million Sequence A and launched its good accounting software program for startups.
The agency stated in a Thursday (Feb. 16) weblog put up that its resolution options each good accounting software program and a real-time monetary knowledge platform — a mixture that gives the pace, collaboration and intelligence founders and their finance groups want for fundraising, taxes and enhancing enterprise well being.
“It’s not sufficient for founders to construct nice merchandise; they should construct nice companies too,” Puzzle stated within the put up. “A startup wants an answer for taxes and monetary reporting, however in tighter funding environments founders must be extra on prime of their steadiness sheet and efficiency metrics than ever earlier than.”
As PYMNTS reported in January, companies are more and more turning to automated options to take away bottlenecks from each front- and back-end operations, realizing efficiencies throughout operational verticals that embrace finance and accounting workplace to the manufacturing unit flooring and even the loading bay.
PYMNTS conversations with chief monetary officers (CFOs) in 2022 confirmed a powerful emphasis on automation in all its varieties, as there was a current increase in alternatives for automated instruments to assist corporations gas sustainable progress whereas lowering human error and handbook labor redundancy.
These efficiencies are particularly necessary at a time when inflation and rates of interest are rising, investor enthusiasm for preliminary public choices (IPOs) is waning and offers have fallen to ranges not seen because the 2008 monetary disaster.
Puzzle stated within the weblog put up that its resolution provides startups entry to funds which can be real-time and explorable, an image of economic well being that’s complete and full, and financials which can be verifiably correct and assist create belief.
The answer additionally encompasses a studying system that frequently improves its categorization, strategies and anomaly detection and a system that may scale, based on the put up.
Whereas legacy accounting programs lead most founders to think about accounting a “lifeless finish for knowledge,” good accounting software program could make it “a place to begin of helpful monetary evaluation,” the put up stated.
“We rebuilt the accounting core, plus all of the automation, collaboration and intelligence you’ll anticipate with any fashionable software program,” Puzzle stated within the put up.
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