Artificial Intelligence Startup Accern Raises $13 Million In Series A To Help Enterprises Adopt AI More Easily

When Kumesh Aroomoogan was working in the public finance department at Citigroup, he spent hours looking at financial statements, copying and pasting from one document to the next, arranging and rearranging his Excel sheet, and performing a lot of repeated manual tasks. "They were scaling on labor versus technology," Aroomoogan says. "I thought there has to be a better way to automate this entire process." So in 2014, Aroomoogan, who had an idea for a product, teamed up with Anshul Vikram Pandey, a data visualization PhD student at NYU at the time, and the two started working in Aroomoogan's basement in Queens, NY. What came out of the effort of the two entrepreneurs is Accern, an enterprise whose AI Platform contains ready-made solutions for the financial service industry.