AI-powered accounting startup Campfire introduced Monday that it has raised a $35 million Collection A led by Accel, with participation from Basis Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49, and angel traders together with Mercury’s CFO Dan Kang.
“Inside 9 months of formation, we had prospects [with] north of 100 workers ripping out NetSuite and placing in Campfire,” founder CEO John Glasgow stated. A few of Campfire’s prospects which have migrated from NetSuite embody wealth administration platform Advisor360, building software program startup Rhumbix, and buyer expertise firm Fooji, Campfire says.
This was, partly, as a result of Glasgow attended YC in the summertime of 2023, regardless of being decidedly extra skilled than the standard 20-something YC founder. He described the age distinction with a shaggy dog story: Throughout a YC bingo occasion, “One of many bingos was ‘discover somebody that’s a dad or mum,’ and I used to be the new commodity at YC bingo.”
Glasgow already had a decade and a half profession in finance working for Constancy, Union Sq. Advisors, and others. When his supervisor from Adobe left to run an Accel-backed startup referred to as Invoice2go, he took Glasgow with him. Lower than a 12 months later, within the fall of 2021, Invoice.com purchased Invoice2go for about $625 million.
Glasgow wound up with each the money and an thought to construct his personal startup, one that will automate the drudgery in finance like reconciling funds on payments, income forecasts, and — the half he found through the Invoice2go deal — due diligence for M&A.
He launched Campfire in 2023 to upend Nineties-era enterprise useful resource planning accounting software program (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered different.
Campfire does issues like robotically itemize and reconcile AWS cloud computing payments. It generates detailed money move evaluation, charts, and solutions to questions from natural-language prompts.
“Considered one of our prospects went from a 15-day to a three-day shut once they ripped out NetSuite and put in Campfire,” he says concerning the time to finalize the books every month.
YC’s famed entry to different cohort alums helped him land tech startups as prospects, like Sierra AI and Replo. He has since not solely landed unicorn fintech startup Mercury as a buyer, however its CFO invested.
Whereas Campfire is only a gnat by way of its impression on Oracle’s billion-dollar (and rising) NetSuite enterprise, the startup gained sufficient prospects to show its aggressive plausibility.
At its seed stage, Campfire grew to round 100 prospects and is now as much as 12 workers together with, Glasgow stated, one world buyer on monitor to do a $250 million ARR.
“I used to be shocked that there have been companies of this dimension that have been trusting their complete ERP to a 10-person, seed-stage challenge,” Accel’s John Locke, who had backed Invoice2Go, informed TechCrunch of what had enticed him with Campfire.
Locke usually invests on the development stage. However provided that type of “traction out of the gates” and a complete ERP software program market of $56 billion in 2024, in keeping with some market analysis reviews, Locke was in to steer the A. And he was in large.
“[The] AI ERP enterprise is huge, and we expect John is de facto the correct particular person to do it. So why don’t we do a $30 [million] to $35 million collection A, and actually go for it?” he informed Glasgow and his companions. So that they did.
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