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Cranston

Total raised$5.0M
Founded2025
Team size1-10
IndustriesAI/ML

About Cranston

Cranston AI is a seed-stage AI company headquartered in San Francisco with a mission to transform how CPA firms operate by automating bookkeeping and tax preparation, enabling accountants to focus on higher-value advisory work. Founded by two best friends with proven entrepreneurial track records, the company is led by a CEO who previously built and scaled a B2B SaaS company to over $10M in revenue and $25M in funding from top-tier investors like Index Ventures and Founders Fund, while co-founder Max scaled a tax and bookkeeping business to millions in revenue. The founding team of four includes the two co-founders and two part-time CPAs who bring deep domain expertise to the problem they're solving. Despite being early-stage, Cranston AI has already demonstrated strong market traction by signing hundreds of thousands of dollars in pilot revenue in recent weeks, validating demand for their solution among accounting firms.

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Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, United States
Websitecranston.ai
LinkedInLinkedIn

Location

About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Leadership100%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Stanford University
  2. 2.University of Minnesota

Team Worked At

  • Databricks

Culture & values

Small, tight-knit team built on mutual respect, intellectual curiosity, and shared drive to win

High-autonomy environment where everyone is expected to be scrappy, resourceful, and deeply engaged

Team works together in-person in San Francisco 3-4 days per week, prioritizing collaboration and speed

Culture values smart, ambitious people who move fast, respond quickly, and take ownership

Everyone has outsized impact as part of a founding team

Team lunches and Thursday happy hours as regular rituals

Well-stocked office environment

Founders value people deeply engaged with AI tools in their daily work

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