Aleph
YC S21New York City, US Β· Founded 2020 Β· 30 employees Β· Hiring Β· 14 known investors
Aleph is a financial planning and analysis (FP&A) tool built with a spreadsheet-first approach that integrates company-wide data. It serves finance teams who need to understand historical data, monitor current performance, and forecast future results.
Also known as Aleph FP&A Β· getaleph
Founders & leadershipΒ· Y Combinator alumni (S21)
Aleph was founded in 2020 by Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso.
Investors Β· 14
Also in the syndicate Β· 8
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$29M disclosed across 1 of 5 rounds Β· 2023β2025
- $29MSeries BSep 2025 Β· 4 sources
Khosla Ventures (lead), Bain Capital Ventures, Picus Capital, Y Combinator
Source β - Undisclosed amountSeries AOct 2023
Bain Capital Ventures (lead), Khosla Ventures, Picus Capital, Y Combinator
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Source: company announcements and press reports β follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Aleph builds financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software positioned as a single source of truth for financial data. The platform connects to ERP, HRIS, CRM and other business systems via more than 150 no-code connectors, syncs that data in real time, and lets finance teams consolidate and transform it with mapping logic, table joins, calculations, stored metrics, pivot tables, custom functions and SQL. Outputs can be consumed through bi-directional Excel and Google Sheets add-ins that sync on demand or on a schedule, or through interactive no-code dashboards for sharing metrics and trends with stakeholders.
The product is applied to financial reporting and close, collaborative budgeting, modeling and forecasting, headcount planning (reconciling HRIS, ATS and spreadsheet data), and investor and board reporting. Since 2025 the company has marketed itself as "AI-native," adding AI agents, assistants and analysts, an AI Scan tool and AI-powered variance analysis with data drill-downs, and an MCP interface for agentic workflows; company messaging emphasizes observability and auditability of AI outputs rather than opaque automation.
Aleph was founded in 2020, took part in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, and operates as a remote team spread across six countries with 30 people as of the YC listing. Named after Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Aleph" β a point in space containing all other points β the company frames the name as a metaphor for giving FP&A a 360-degree view of company-wide data.
Founding story
The founders' stated premise was that existing FP&A tools attempt to replace Excel and Google Sheets with web-based interfaces, but users continue to work in spreadsheets and then copy results into the tool. Aleph's co-founders asked what a spreadsheet-first FP&A tool would look like β one requiring no new syntax, no consultants, and no months-long implementation β and built the platform around preserving spreadsheet flexibility while adding integrated data infrastructure. Santiago Perez De Rosso serves as Co-Founder & CTO and Albert Gozzi as Co-Founder & CEO.
Business model
Aleph sells its FP&A and financial data platform to businesses, with a self-serve motion (free trial, self-driven implementation without consultants) alongside demo-led sales. The company emphasizes rapid time-to-value β customers describing being live within one to three weeks β in contrast to legacy tools requiring lengthy onboarding.
Traction
The company reports 10X growth in size since its October 2023 Series A announcement, hundreds of customers including Zapier, Turo, Notion, Harvey, Chess.com, Envoy and Postscript, near-perfect retention, and a stated trial-to-paid conversion above 90%. Total disclosed funding is $46M as of September 2025; team size is listed at 30.
Latest developments
In September 2025 Aleph closed a $29M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Kanu Gulati), with Picus Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Y Combinator participating, bringing total funding to $46M; proceeds are earmarked for accelerating AI adoption in the Office of the CFO. The company continues to expand AI-native functionality, including AI-powered variance analysis and the Aleph MCP interface for agentic workflows, and is actively hiring engineering and engagement roles.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Aleph positions itself in the multi-billion-dollar FP&A software category, which it characterizes as competitive, slow-innovating and lacking a clear winner. It differentiates on speed to value, comprehensiveness of cross-system data management, spreadsheet flexibility and scalability, and claims strong win rates against older, larger and better-funded vendors and near-perfect customer retention; these claims are self-reported.
Rather than moving finance teams off spreadsheets, Aleph supercharges Excel and Google Sheets with bi-directional add-ins, requires no new query language or external consultants, and can be implemented in days or weeks instead of months. It pairs this with finance-controlled data warehousing and AI features designed to be observable and auditable to reduce hallucination risk.
Technology
The platform combines no-code data connectors (150+ sources), enterprise-grade data warehousing controlled by finance rather than engineering, a transformation layer (field mapping, table combination, calculations, stored metrics, pivot tables, custom functions, SQL), bi-directional Excel and Google Sheets add-ins with real-time or scheduled sync, and dashboards. AI capabilities include agents, assistants and analysts, AI-assisted data cleaning, an AI Scan variance-detection tool with drill-downs, and an Aleph MCP interface for agentic use.
Go-to-market
Go-to-market combines demo bookings and free trials from the website, customer case studies and testimonials, a content blog ("10X Finance"), and investor/YC visibility. The company states over 90% of trial starts convert to customers and highlights self-serve implementation without consultants as a sales differentiator.
Finance and operations teams β FP&A leaders, CFOs, VPs and directors of finance, and strategic finance and accounting staff β at technology and other companies that need to centralize financial data from disparate systems. Named customers include Zapier, Turo, Notion, Harvey, Chess.com, Envoy, Postscript and AllCloud, and the company references hundreds of finance teams. Job listings for "PE Engagements" and "Partner Engagements" indicate a private equity and partner channel as well.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City, New York, with a fully remote team distributed across six countries; open roles are listed for the Americas and remote US. Team offsites have been held in Panama, the Dominican Republic and Argentina.
History
Aleph was founded in 2020 and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch, with Aaron Epstein as primary partner. It raised a $5.2M seed led by Khosla Ventures, then emerged from stealth on 24 October 2023 announcing an $11.5M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures (Christina Melas-Kyriazi joining the board), bringing total funding to $16.7M. In April 2025 the company introduced AI-powered FP&A capabilities, and on 17 September 2025 announced a $29M Series B led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Picus Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Y Combinator, taking total funding to $46M. In October 2025 the co-founders appeared in a Y Combinator conversation about the company's AI-native direction.
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Key figures
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Competitors Β· 6
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Timeline Β· 5
launches, deals, and filingsAleph's co-founders joined Y Combinator for a recorded conversation about building an AI-native FP&A platform centered on the spreadsheet.
Aleph announced a $29 million Series B led by Khosla Ventures with continued participation from Picus Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing total funding to $46 million. The round is intended to accelerate AI adoption for the Office of the CFO.
$29M source β
Aleph published a blog post introducing AI agents, assistants and analysts integrated into customers' existing data, spreadsheets and workflows.
Aleph came out of stealth and announced an $11.5M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Picus Capital and angel investors, alongside a previously raised $5.2M seed led by Khosla Ventures; total funding to date was $16.7M. Christina Melas-Kyriazi of BCV joined the board.
$11.5M source β
Aleph was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch; Aaron Epstein is the primary YC partner.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Aleph do?
- Aleph is a spreadsheet-first, AI-native FP&A and financial data platform for finance teams, founded 2020 and YC S21.
- Who founded Aleph?
- Aleph was founded by Albert Gozzi, Santiago Perez De Rosso in 2020.
- Who are Aleph's investors?
- Aleph's investors include Khosla Ventures, PICUS CAPITAL, VentureSouq, Y Combinator, Bain Capital Ventures, SignalRank.
- How much funding has Aleph raised?
- Aleph has disclosed $29M raised across 1 of its 5 known rounds.
- Where is Aleph headquartered?
- Aleph is headquartered in New York City, US.