Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows

This article was published on March 24, 2026 The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC participating. The CFO’s software stack is both the problem and the constraint. Enterprise finance teams typically run on a combination of ERPs, CRMs, spreadsheets, email, and banking platforms that were built at different times, by different vendors, for different purposes. APIs between these systems are often incomplete or absent, which means finance teams absorb the integration gap themselves, manually downloading, reformatting, uploading, and reconciling data across systems to complete tasks that should be automated. Zalos, a San Francisco and London-based startup that emerged from Y Combinator’s Fall 2025 batch, has raised $3.6 million on the thesis that the fix is not a new ERP but a new kind of agent that operates the existing stack the way a human analyst would. The round is led by 14 Peaks, the Swiss venture capital firm, with participation from Cohen Circle and 20VC. The angel list is