Why should someone work here?
They want to build zero to one: Zero to one is very different from one to hundred. It's long hours, a lot of trials and experiments to build a product that will truly change the lives of the accounting /financial professionals and maximize financial performance of every company in the world
They are comfortable with agency and ownership: You are comfortable owning large pieces of the problem and executing it with little support. You strongly believe in customer satisfaction beingthe #1 priority and you are willing to do whatever it takes to make them happy.
They are motivated to build complex systems: We are building custom rule engines, AI-agents based explanation frameworks, multi-tenant datastores to name a few. Building generic systems that can help any enterprise to accurately get their financials and report it to board members or public markets is very complex.
They prioritize learning: As a small startup, engineers not only build the product & infrastructure, but also talk to customers, jump in sales calls and figure out product roadmap.
Move fast, fail fast: We are a start up, everything we do is in compressed timelines. You will single handedly build a lot of features in weeks that many large teams at big tech will take months to complete.
They like a fun team: Startups are hard so why not have fun along the way?
They like to work in-office: We work at least 4 days/week in-office in Menlo Park (moving to San Mateo)
Maxima’s mission is to “maximize shareholder value for every enterprise in the world by making their
financial information accessible, accurate, and actionable”.
Today, there are so many companies out there who make sub-par financial decisions leading to constant layoffs, churn and wealth destruction. Thereby, impacting the interest of their employees (livelihood, 401K, kids’ college fund), shareholders and suppliers.
Ask yourself: why do some companies drop [90%] of their share price in 2 years, get acquired by private equity and then turn profitable in the next 1 year. With no real change to their customer or product.
The single biggest reason behind these sub-par financial decisions are: fragmented financial data which does not provide any forward-looking, actionable RoI insights to the decision makers. Such a broken set up also leads to lack of time and attention from the accounting and finance teams, as they spend
disproportionate time on mundane tasks like month-end close. Most accounting teams spend 20-22 out of 30 days every month to close their monthly books, and this exercise happens every month, 12 times a year. 87% of accountants are burnt out by the month end close and 90% face intense pressure to close
the books faster.
Maxima’s moonshot is to close the books for every company on ‘day zero’. Gone are the days of month end close. We are enabling a future of “continuous close”. On the first day of every month, our AI based systems will automatically update the financials so that teams can spend the rest of their time analyzing
and making the best decisions for their business. We have several unicorn businesses and publicly traded companies as our customers.
Maxima will directly improve the work lives of 2% of the entire US employees who are in deep pain and frustration, see the sample reddit post below and find more here.
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The founding engineers team has staff level engineers and leaders
from companies like Robinhood, Twitter, Google, WhatsApp, Netflix & Bolt. The CEO, Yogi is a domain expert who took Rubrik from a $0 to $6B IPO in NYSE and deeply understands this problem. Akshaya & Jack have built similar massive scale systems for companies like Twitter and Netflix processing hundreds of millions of transactions per day. Many others on the founding team have led similar massive scale systems at Robinhood, Airbnb & Youtube. Most investors consider us to be the strongest team in this problem space.
Raised a $10.5M Seed round backed by Kleiner Perkins and Audacious Ventures, who have backed companies like Google, Amazon, Rippling, Figma etc. We have plenty of runway and we are confident we can raise future rounds.