Insights and updates from the team

This past summer, I had the chance to dive headfirst into the world of FP&A software as an MBA intern at Aleph, where I learned a ton about the industry, the challenges finance teams face, and how Aleph is building a customer-focused solution to address their pain points.

People are your organization’s greatest asset, but planning for them can be one of your biggest headaches. Check out these templates and tips to streamline your headcount planning process.

The finance department has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent decades, fueled in part by the widespread adoption of financial planning and analysis (FP&A). It’s been a winding road to get to this point, but today, FP&A teams have solidified themselves as a cross-functional strategic asset within most businesses.

Becoming a CFO isn’t just a title; it’s a massive responsibility. It’s also a badge of honor that most finance professionals deeply respect and strive to achieve. But getting there is a challenging journey. We analyzed the career paths of top finance executives to understand their education, work experience, and time to reach the CFO position.

Finance teams rely on mounds of data and manually policing every line item becomes too arduous and time-consuming. We're excited to roll out Checks—a no-code monitoring tool that automatically flags data discrepancies. Checks combined with our new Slack alerts help teams improve data accuracy, cleanliness, and completeness.

Today, we’re excited to come out of stealth and start sharing our story, as well as announce our $11.5M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator and others. Together with a $5.2M seed led by Khosla, this brings our total funding to date to $16.7m.