AppZen Lands $180 Million

<p><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">SAN JOSE <&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;appzen&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">AppZen<&sol;a>&comma; an Agentic AI platform for finance teams&comma; has raised <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;180 million<&sol;span> in growth funding&period; This round was led by Riverwood Capital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AppZen is the AI-native platform for autonomous finance&period; Powered by proprietary ZenLM models and the Mastermind AI Automation Platform&comma; AppZen&&num;8217&semi;s domain-trained AI Agents streamline end-to-end workflows across T&amp&semi;E&comma; accounts payable&comma; and corporate card programs&comma; transforming finance teams&period; More than 500 global enterprises&comma; including over 65 of the Fortune 500&comma; rely on AppZen to automate transaction processing and reduce costs&comma; delivering over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;2 billion<&sol;span> in savings and enabling finance teams to reallocate up to two-thirds of their manual workload to higher-value activities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Series D fundraise allows AppZen to further accelerate the adoption of agentic AI at the enterprise&comma; converting standard operating procedures into configurable&comma; production-ready&comma; digital coworkers&comma; enabling CFOs and controllers to replace over 50&percnt; of manual work and scale operations without additional headcount or BPO&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re thrilled to welcome Riverwood Capital as a partner in our mission to bring agentic AI to every finance team&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Anant Kale<&sol;span>&comma; Co-founder &amp&semi; CEO at AppZen&period; &&num;8220&semi;Riverwood&&num;8217&semi;s scale-up expertise and global network will help us accelerate the deployment of Mastermind AI Agents&comma; so finance workflows can run on autopilot&period; With many of the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest companies already on AppZen&comma; demand for autonomous finance has never been higher&period; Together with Riverwood Capital&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll meet that customer need at scale and realize the full opportunity to reimagine how CFOs run finance&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Enterprises face mounting pressure to cut costs&comma; fight <span class&equals;"" title&equals;"">fraud<&sol;span>&comma; and manage compliance across complex global operations&period; To solve this growing problem&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re adopting artificial intelligence at an accelerated rate&period; According to Fortune&comma; the global AI market is projected to grow from over <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;290 billion<&sol;span> in 2025 to <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;1&period;7 trillion<&sol;span> by 2032&period; Gartner analysis further estimates that 33&percnt; of enterprise software applications will have embedded agentic AI by 2028&period; As part of these organizations&comma; finance is poised for a major transformation from process automation to autonomous decision-making with agentic applications&period; AppZen is leading the way with agentic technology that helps finance teams eliminate manual review&comma; reduce spend leakage&comma; and ensure regulatory compliance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;AppZen is at the forefront of a massive shift in how global enterprises leverage AI and automation to drive efficiency and scale their operations&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Francisco Alvarez-Demalde&comma; Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Riverwood Capital&period; &&num;8220&semi;We are excited to partner with Anant and his exceptional team&comma; whose vision and execution have made AppZen the category leader in autonomous finance for the enterprise and positioned the company to transform how businesses manage&comma; audit&comma; decide&comma; and run expenses and payables&period;&&num;8221&semi; Francisco Alvarez-Demalde and Riverwood Capital Partner Alex Porto have joined AppZen&&num;8217&semi;s Board of Directors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AppZen&&num;8217&semi;s models power deep semantic understanding across 40&plus; languages and 60&plus; countries&period; Its platform supports multi-entity and multi-currency operations&comma; helping some of the world&&num;8217&semi;s most complex and highly regulated enterprises to cut <span class&equals;"" title&equals;"">fraud<&sol;span>-related losses on an international level&comma; while achieving major efficiency and cost savings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;AppZen&&num;8217&semi;s impact at Airbus was immediate&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said <span class&equals;"xn-person">Waqas Aman<&sol;span>&comma; Head of Financial Systems North America&comma; Airbus&period; &&num;8220&semi;It significantly reduced the workload for our T&amp&semi;E analysts&comma; allowing them to focus on more strategic activities&period; The platform helped us identify ambiguities in our T&amp&semi;E policies and eliminate inconsistent micro-policies throughout the company&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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