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YC accounting and finance companies across cohorts

Compare seven YC companies spanning accounting, internal audit, finance operations, and risk, grouped by the work they do and the buyer they serve.

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Members come from YC and are selected by explicit accounting, audit, finance, or risk descriptions; cohort labels remain part of provenance.

  • Cranston, Balance, and Arden are adjacent YC entries with notably different public category language.
  • Afternoon.co, Finto, Cifrato, Finto, and RiskCube broaden the map from founder finance to enterprise risk.
  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Afternoon.co

    Afternoon provides managed bookkeeping, taxes and compliance for AI startups with complex revenue and inference-cost structures.

    Y Combinator Fall 2024

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Cranston AI

    Cranston automates repetitive tax, bookkeeping and client-follow-up work for CPA firms, with reviewer approval before filing or sending.

    Y Combinator Fall 2025

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Balance

    Balance keeps SMB books current with AI agents and named accountants who own the judgement and sign-off.

    Y Combinator Winter 2026

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Arden

    Arden targets internal-audit and SOX teams with evidence collection, control testing and audit-ready workpapers.

    Y Combinator Spring 2026

  • B2B · Finance and Accounting

    Finto

    Finto adds AI agents to high-volume invoice processing and connects exceptions and approvals back to enterprise ERP systems.

    Y Combinator Summer 2025

  • B2B · Operations

    Cifrato

    An agentic accounting workflow that keeps human review on exceptions and source traceability.

    Y Combinator Winter 2025

  • Fintech / Insurance

    RiskCube

    America’s first AI-native reinsurer for emerging risks.

    Y Combinator Fall 2024

How this collection was assembled

Curated researched sample from the 2026-09-19 company inventory; not the full accelerator roster. Membership follows the stated source fields and public descriptions. Where SPC appears, company-directory association is not a Fellowship cohort; where LAUNCH appears, categories are editorial unless the provider exposes them.