6 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef
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Julio Martinez, Abacum: AI Flips the FP&A Market
Abacum co-founder and CEO Julio Martinez describes the AI-native FP&A platform, its $60M Series B, and tripled revenue, crediting a "tectonic" shift in which finance teams now chase AI instead of defaulting to legacy vendors. He explains chatting with company data via MCP inside GPT, Claude, or Slack, and the Barcelona-to-New York expansion that pushed roughly 50% of revenue to US customers. His advice: obsess over product superiority while front-loading brand investment, all guided by his stoic philosophy of the dichotomy of control and reframing obstacles as opportunity.