“We want to break finance free from behind the desk work, connect all the stakeholders in a business so they become a trust advisor, and turn the CFO into the Chief Performance Officer driving performance in the business and making better decisions.” — Julio Martinez, co-founder and CEO of Aba..

Arpan Bhattacharya is CEO of The Intelligent Search Company, a startup building AI for adversarial environments. He describes what it takes to build “noise cancellation for decision-making.” When shopping online, context is everything. You either know exactly what to look for, or you find yourse..

This week, we saw a major vote of confidence in vertical AI. Basis just raised a nine-figure Series B as accounting firms lean into end-to-end agents across tax, audit, and client services. Basis has raised $100 million in Series B funding at a $1.15 billion valuation, led by Accel, with participati..