Zalos raises £2.7M seed led by 14 Peaks to build computer agents for finance operations
March 24, 2026
Zalos, a London- and San Francisco-based startup building AI computer agents for finance operations, has raised £2.7 million (around $3.6 million) in a seed round led by 14 Peaks, with participation from Cohen Circle and 20VC.
Modern finance teams sit across fragmented stacks of ERPs, CRMs, spreadsheets, email and banking platforms that were never built to talk to each other. APIs between these systems are often incomplete or missing entirely, and the gap is closed by people — manually moving data between tools to complete billing cycles, close the books and produce reporting. Replacing those underlying systems is rarely an option for midmarket and enterprise finance teams, who have spent years configuring processes around them.
Zalos's approach sits on top of the existing stack rather than replacing it. The platform converts screen recordings of finance workflows into computer agents that log into systems with a username and password, navigate interfaces, enter data and validate against controls. The agents work inside NetSuite, Sage and SAP S/4HANA today, alongside Excel, email and internal tools, with every action captured in an auditable log. The platform is built to enterprise security standards including SOC 2 Type II, single sign-on, role-based access controls and on-premise deployment options. Active use cases include billing automation across multiple systems, month-end reconciliations and cross-system KPI reporting.
The company was founded in 2025 by CEO William Fairbairn and CTO Hung Hoang, who joined Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch together. Fairbairn previously spent time at Agicap speaking with hundreds of CFOs about the reality of ERP implementations — long timelines, limited upside, real career risk if they fail. Hoang, of Vietnamese heritage, spent five years at Apple Pay before working on early computer-agent research, drawn to the approach because it avoided the API problems that have stalled finance automation. Zalos already has paying customers across the major midmarket ERPs.
Alongside 14 Peaks, Cohen Circle and 20VC, the round drew angels including FedEx CFO Mike Lenz, Tide CFO Ian Sutherland, Ada CFO Long Dinh, Indeed founder Paul Forster and 11x founder Hasan Sukkar. The funding will be used to expand beyond midmarket ERPs into enterprise and on-premise systems and to deepen the underlying context graph across the finance stack.
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