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Mesh

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http://www.usemesh.com

Building your AI finance co-worker

Mesh is building your AI finance co-worker. Mesh is the single, unified interface through which founders can ask questions about their financials, and think through budgeting and forecasting. Nandini and Erin worked together for 5+ years at Carta, and helped grow the fund accounting business from $20M to $100M ARR. Leveraging their insights from Carta, they’re now automating accounting and finance for companies. After talking to 100+ companies, they realized that what companies need is a better finance partner. Our agents will meet founders exactly where they are by integrating with the existing tech stack and being accessible across various communication channels (i.e. Email, WhatsApp, Chat, Phone, Zoom). Within 1 week of launching on ProductHunt, they have taken 25 customers live, and became the #1 Fintech of the Week. With 35M companies in the US spending ~1-3% of their revenues on finance and accounting, we're going after a $175B market opportunity.
Mesh
Founded:2024
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Michael Seibel
  
Active Founders

Erin Kim, Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at Mesh. Erin is intimately familiar with the systemic inefficiencies in finance + accounting, from her investment banking experience at Barclays and being the second finance hire at Carta. For the last 4+ years, she led a product team of 8 engineers and designers to build Carta’s fund admin client communications system and accounting automation. She graduated with a full-ride scholarship from Washington University of St. Louis.
Erin Kim
Erin Kim
Mesh
 

Nandini Ramakrishnan, Founder

Co-Founder and CTO at Mesh. Nandini spent the last 5+ years at Carta building accounting automation workflows, in-house general ledger, fund formation software, lending products (i.e. capital call lines), and auditor portals. She led a team of 4 engineers as an engineering manager. Prior to that, she co-authored a Machine Learning patent at eBay. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
Nandini Ramakrishnan
Nandini Ramakrishnan
Mesh
 
Company Launches
Mesh - AI Bookkeeper for Startups 📒
See original launch post ›

Hey YC! We’re Erin Kim and Nandini Ramakrishnan. Today, we’re re-launching Mesh – an AI bookkeeper that can match the speed of startup founders.

Background

Few weeks ago, we launched an auto-reconciliation tool for accounting firms. We've since discovered that many founders spend days monthly reconciling books themselves with accuracy concerns. Even those outsourcing were frustrated by inconsistencies, errors, and required intervention.

This led us to ask: can we fundamentally redesign startup bookkeeping?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5xZr8YYh0

Problem

After talking to 50+ founders, we learned:

  • Founders are busy and want to outsource bookkeeping
  • Founders want a bookkeeper w/ full company context who doesn't require significant monthly supervision
  • Founders need to make fast decisions with financial implications

For founders, bookkeeping enables informed real-time decisions about fundraising, investments, hiring, and more. Clean books become especially crucial during tax deadlines, rebate filings, 409a valuations, investor updates, and board meetings.

Transaction categorization, receipt/invoice matching, and manual Excel analysis create too much overhead for founders seeking financial insights.

Solution

Mesh is a fully AI-native bookkeeping service–one that keeps up with founders' decision-making speed. Mesh offers an AI-native chat letting founders ask questions about their financials as if talking to a live accountant. We translate accounting jargon into actionable insights for decision-making. No more waiting days for accountant responses or spending hours in Quickbooks.

Behind the scenes, we perform daily auto-reconciliation with Mesh at the center of your financial stack. By ingesting data across your banking, invoicing, point-of-sale, billing, expense management, and payroll systems, we enable multi-way reconciliations writing directly into your general ledger.

We're not in the business of rebuilding your financial stack. We meet founders exactly where they are, reading and writing financial data in the tools they currently use.

Our Ask

Are you a founder wanting to put your bookkeeping on autopilot? Let’s chat:

We keep your books balanced, so you can focus on growing your company.

-Erin & Nandini

Other Company Launches

Mesh - AI Agent for Bank Reconciliation

Saving accountants hours by auto-reconciling bank transactions
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