Why We Raised $9M To Automate What Finance Teams Shouldn’t Be Doing Manually Anymore

Finance leaders today are being asked to do more with less. Tighter margins. Leaner teams. Higher stakes. Yet behind the scenes, many are still relying on the oldest method in the book: manual comparisons between documents, often late at night, trying to catch errors that can quietly cost their companies millions.

Revenue leakage. Misclassified payroll. Duplicate payments. Out-of-policy expenses. These aren’t rare outliers or the cost of doing business - they’re routine issues hiding in plain sight.

At Celery, we’ve seen this firsthand. We built our company around a simple belief: Finance teams shouldn’t be manually chasing down problems that AI can catch in seconds. CFOs should be the right hand of the CEO, the strategic advisor who sees across the data and knows how to steer the ship, not someone drowning in routine manual work.

Replacing Oversight with Intelligence

Celery started with payroll, an area most finance leaders know all too well. We built intelligent agents that scan for discrepancies, policy violations, and overtime inefficiencies that are easy to miss but expensive to ignore. What we quickly realized was that the same pattern applied across the entire financial control stack.

So we expanded. Today, Celery is a full-stack financial oversight platform. We help companies catch errors and risks across payroll, revenue, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, and more, before they impact the bottom line.

And it’s working.

To date, we’ve:

• Processed over 430,000 payslips‍
• Analyzed $550M+ in payroll data‍
• Prevented $2.3M in financial losses‍
• Reduced manual oversight by up to 91%‍
• Delivered at least 8x ROI to our customers
• All with no system integration or complex setup required.
  

Better Data, Smarter Decisions

At its core, Celery isn’t just about automation - it’s about precision. When your financial data is clean, current, and constantly checked for accuracy, you unlock a completely new level of strategic decision-making.

We don’t just catch errors, we create confidence. Confidence that your numbers are right. Confidence that your reporting is trustworthy. Confidence that when you make a decision, it’s based on the truth, not a flawed spreadsheet or missed anomaly.

Finance leaders shouldn’t have to second-guess the integrity of their data. With Celery, they don’t have to.

Fueling the Next Phase of Growth

That’s why I’m excited to share that Celery has raised $6.25 million in seed funding, led by Team8, with participation from Verissimo Ventures, Centre Street Partners, 97212 Ventures, and several strategic angel investors. This brings our total funding to $9 million.

This funding is about more than capital; it’s about scale.
We’ll use it to:

• Launch new audit agents focused on revenue optimization, fraud detection, expense review, and fixed asset controls‍
• Expand into adjacent labor-intensive industries like construction, hospitality, and manufacturing, where financial oversight is equally complex and the need for smarter, scalable controls is growing rapidly.
• Deepen our presence in healthcare, where we’re already trusted by dozens of U.S. organizations
• Grow our team of engineers, product experts, and go-to-market talent
  

What’s Next

Finance leaders don’t need another dashboard. They need peace of mind and the ability to make faster, smarter decisions. Celery gives them just that by automating the reviews that used to eat up hours and exposing the errors that used to go undetected.

We’re building the future of financial oversight: proactive, intelligent, and always-on. Because when nothing slips by unnoticed, finance teams can finally stop reacting and start leading.

To our customers, team, and investors: thank you for believing in our mission. We’re just getting started.

If you’re a CFO looking for better control , let’s talk.

Yuval.