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2:20:1220 min
Albert Malikov (Stacks): Agentic AI for Enterprise Finance
Fresh off a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed ($35M total raised), Stacks founder and CEO Albert Malikov explains how the platform uses AI agents to help enterprises close their books faster and more accurately, drawing on his product work automating finance workflows at Uber and his time at Plaid. He describes the 'AI parallel ledger,' deterministic tools for matching and categorization, human-in-the-loop controls, and the newly launched AI flux analysis, which produces variance explanations in about 20 seconds with over 95% never edited by users. He also compares building in Amsterdam versus San Francisco, arguing Europe's fragmented, multi-entity accounting landscape forces useful complexity into the product from day one.