E61: Maxima's $41M Mission: Automating Enterprise Accounting Close with AI

In this episode, Sasha Orloff talks with Yogi Goel, Co-founder and CEO of Maxima, about raising $41 million from Kleiner Perkins and RedPoint Ventures to build an agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting that automates journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis for complex companies, helping them close their books 2-3 days faster with 98% automation while strengthening SOX controls and freeing accountants from mundane tasks.

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RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yogi-goel/

https://www.maxima.ai/

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