YC-backed Bujeti launches AI “teammates” to take manual work off African finance teams

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More [...] The post YC-backed Bujeti launches AI “teammates” to take manual work off African finance teams appeared first on Disrupt Africa . A participant in Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch , Bujeti went on to raise US$2.5 million in seed funding , and has now launched Brain.

Nigerian fintech startup Bujeti has made Brain, an agentic (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) AI platform for finance teams, publicly available following a two-week private beta. Founded by Cossi Achille Arouko and Samy Chiba, Bujeti offers corporate cards with real-time controls, vendor payment automation with multi-level approvals, budgeting, invoicing, business accounts, a tax module, payroll and a mobile app.

More than 2,000 finance professionals in Nigeria and Kenya use the platform. The platform provides four AI “teammates” that handle routine finance work.

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• The platform — provides: four AI “teammates” that handle routine finance work