Even without a background in accounting, anyone who has ever glanced at a 10-K or 10-Q can tell that preparing financial statements is a complex, tedious process.<\/p>\n\n
While legacy platforms like Workiva and Donnelley Financial Solutions aim to streamline financial reporting, longtime accountants Mary Antony (pictured right) and Kelsey Gootnick (pictured center) found themselves exhausted by various manual hurdles within these tools (co-founder and CTO Jared Tibshraeny is pictured left).<\/p>\n\n
The duo met seven years ago at Flexport, where Gootnick served as the company\u2019s controller and Antony served as assistant controller. They stayed in touch even after Antony moved to Miro and Gootnick to Hopin and later Thrive Global.<\/p>\n\n
No matter where they worked, Antony and Gootnick kept running into the same manual challenges.<\/p>\n\n
\u201cThe way financial statements come together, it’s just patched together in a lot of spreadsheets, moved into a bunch of Word documents, emailed back and forth between people,\u201d Antony told TechCrunch. <\/p>\n\n