Julio Martinez
9 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef
Julio Martinez (Abacum): AI-Native FP&A & Cracking the US
Abacum co-founder and CEO Julio Martinez describes how the AI-native FP&A platform tripled revenue after a $60m Series B as AI pressure flipped buyer power away from legacy suites like Anaplan and Hyperion. He describes an MCP integration that lets any budget owner query company data plus world knowledge through GPT or Claude, recounts the tough move from Barcelona to New York that now drives ~50% of revenue, and stresses product superiority plus investing in brand earlier. He closes on his stoic operating philosophy: the dichotomy of control and reframing obstacles as opportunity.
6 Feb 2026$500M ElevenLabs, Attio & Parloa Founder Joins, Anthropic & OpenAI Beef
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.