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The company Accend focuses on serving risk and compliance teams in fintechs, with a mission to pioneer AI-powered risk, compliance and underwriting automation tools for fintechs and banks. Accend is a YC S23 graduate and has raised seed rounds of $3 million and later $3.2 million led by Adverb Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, 645 Ventures, and angels from Brex, Stripe, and Carta. The founders are former leaders of product and engineering teams at Brex and bring more than 25 years of experience from companies including Uber, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and 500 dot com. Accend is trusted by industry leaders such as Pleo, Slope, and Rho.
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