Aleph: The AI Platform for Modern Finance

Aleph is building the AI platform for modern finance — one that meets teams where they already work: in spreadsheets. By combining the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the intelligence of AI, Aleph helps companies automate forecasting, reporting, and planning in real time. In this interview with YC Partner Aaron Epstein, co-founders Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso share how they’re rethinking FP&A from first principles, what it’s like building software for some of the world’s fastest-growing companies, and how Aleph scaled to a $29M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with customers like Zapier, Turo, and Harvey. Chapters: 00:38 – Meeting Finance Teams Where They Are 02:10 – The Pain of Legacy FP&A Tools 04:00 – Building the First AI-Native Finance Platform 06:20 – How Aleph Automates Forecasting & Reporting 08:30 – The Early Days: From YC to First Customers 10:10 – Why Finance Needs to Be Real-Time 12:00 – Designing for Analysts, Not Replacing Them 14:20 – Lessons from Working with Zapier, Harvey & Turo 17:00 – Scaling to a $29M Series B Led by Khosla 19:10 – The Future of FP&A in the Age of AI

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EPISODE INFO

Released: October 24, 2025
Duration: 24m
Channel: YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Aleph is building the AI platform for modern finance — one that meets teams where they already work: in spreadsheets. By combining the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the intelligence of AI, Aleph helps companies automate forecasting, reporting, and planning in real time. In this interview with YC Partner Aaron Epstein, co-founders Albert Gozzi and Santiago Perez De Rosso share how they’re rethinking FP&A from first principles, what it’s like building software for some of the world’s fastest-growing companies, and how Aleph scaled to a $29M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, with customers like Zapier, Turo, and Harvey. Chapters: 00:38 – Meeting Finance Teams Where They Are 02:10 – The Pain of Legacy FP&A Tools 04:00 – Building the First AI-Native Finance Platform 06:20 – How Aleph Automates Forecasting & Reporting 08:30 – The Early Days: From YC to First Customers 10:10 – Why Finance Needs to Be Real-Time 12:00 – Designing for Analysts, Not Replacing Them 14:20 – Lessons from Working with Zapier, Harvey & Turo 17:00 – Scaling to a $29M Series B Led by Khosla 19:10 – The Future of FP&A in the Age of AI

SPEAKERS

Aaron Epstein
host
Host/interviewer on YC Root Access.
Albert Gozzi
guest
Co-founder and CEO of Aleph, an AI-native FP&A platform for finance teams.
Santiago Perez De Rosso
guest
Co-founder and CTO of Aleph; software engineer with experience at Google and a CS PhD background.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Aaron Epstein and Albert Gozzi, Aleph: The AI Platform for Modern Finance explores aleph builds AI-native FP&A around spreadsheets, speed, and trust. Aleph positions itself as an AI-native FP&A platform that centralizes finance data and lets analysts work directly in spreadsheets via an add-in.

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