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# About

At Quanta, we empower software companies with real-time financial clarity. Our vision is to automate all non-creative business accounting tasks, so finance teams and business owners need only do creative and strategic work.

# Our team

Our founding team has engineered financial systems at Stripe and Affirm, and led accounting teams at Notion and Intercom. We are focused on building great product and are grateful to the dozens of paying customers who participated in our beta.

###### THE FOUNDING TEAM

# Helen Hastings
###### Founder / CEO

# Fidel Salgado
###### ENGINEERING

# Avinash Jain
###### ENGINEERING

# Nic Malianni
###### OPERATIONS

# Barak Gila
###### ENGINEERING

# Ella Rohm-Ensing
###### ENGINEERING

# Backed by top VCs

Quanta’s $4.7M seed round was led by Accel with participation from Designer Fund, Elad Gil, basecase, Comma Capital, Operator Collective, Founders You Should Know, Homebrew, & more.

[ACCEL](https://www.accel.com/)

[DESIGNER FUND](https://www.designerfund.com/)

#### COMMA CAPITAL

[COMMA CAPITAL](https://comma.vc/)

#### BASECASE

[BASECASE](https://basecase.vc/)

#### OPERATOR COLLECTIVE

[OPERATOR COLLECTIVE](https://www.operatorcollective.com/)

#### Elad Gil

[ELAD GIL](https://eladgil.com/)

#### HOMEBREW

[HOMEBREW](https://homebrew.co/)

Quanta offers back-office services such as bookkeeping and controller services. It is not a public accounting firm and does not provide services that require a public accountancy license.