Excited to announce the speaker lineup for The Vertical AI Summit in New York on June 2nd. We’re bringing together founders and leaders from top vertical AI companies for a behind-the-scenes look at how they’re building with AI. We still have a few open spots. Apply below.

Today, I’m excited to share that we’ve raised a $4.5 Million seed round led by @2048vc and @RangeVC with participation from @btv_vc.

EPIC MODE ACTIVATED President Trump stared down Xi Jinping and delivered a masterstroke that left the room in silence: “I brought the 30 most powerful business leaders on the planet to these talks… and they all said yes. I didn’t send the second-in-command or the vice president. I wanted the number one from each empire! Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and the other titans… the best in the world are here, right in front of you.” Then, with his winner’s smile, he sealed the deal: “They’re here today to pay respect to you and to China. They come hungry to do business, invest, and create. From our side, it’ll be 100% reciprocal.” The message is clear: America isn’t coming to beg. It’s coming with the supreme bosses of global innovation to lay all the cards on the table. This isn’t normal diplomacy… this is high-voltage diplomacy! - @Jhonffonseca

On June 2nd, we’re co-hosting The Vertical AI Summit in New York. A closed-door event featuring founders and leaders from top vertical AI companies, including Legora, Basis, Ramp, and more. If you’re building in vertical AI, join us!

reach out to @zhou_squared or me if that's you or if you know anyone excellent happy to play poker/starcraft/chess as part of the interview process at @usemonk

Today @usemonk is announcing our $25M Series A co-led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital with continued support from @btv_vc. $3T sits in U.S. accounts receivable. Our mission is to close the gap between earning revenue and receiving it. For most B2B companies, that gap is 45-90 days, thousands of hours of manual work per year, and millions in trapped working capital. It's a tax every growing business pays. Monk invented the Intelligent Collections category. Most AR tools automate the easy parts. We built for the edge cases, portal uploads, PO mismatches, and disputes. On average, customers see 40% lower DSO, 24% higher collections response rate and 25 hours/month saved. Thank you to @ElevenLabs, @tryprofound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust. Our platform typically pays for itself in month one. Book a demo to learn more.

Excited to announce this milestone. We are deploying long-horizon agents at scale that can do real work in the real economy. Our agents can already operate reliably for hours at a time and I expect that to be days by the end of the year. We can barely keep up with demand. If you want to come join and work at the frontier for the most intense, fast-paced couple years of your life, send me a note.

Congrats to @InScopehq on their $14.5M Series A led by @NorwestVP w/ participation from @stormventures, @lightspeedvp, and us @btv_vc! We led InScope's pre-seed and have doubled down at every round since. The original thesis was clear: financial reporting is expensive, manual, and painful. Companies spend $30B annually on audits and the profession has lost 300K accountants in two years. Mary and Kelsey built a rules engine to automate GAAP-compliant financial statements and audit-ready docs. Since then, deeply integrating AI has fundamentally expanded what's possible, going from automating specific outputs to tackling the full spectrum of manual work that bogs accountants down. The results: 5x customer growth in 12 months, working with major firms like CohnReznick, a top 15 national accounting firm, and saving accountants 20% of their time. Just getting started. Let's go!! techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/in…

RT @pitdesi: Prepping financial statements is a complex & tedious. Inscope uses AI to automate it. Firms like CohnReznick & companies lik…

Revenue automation software has a credibility problem. Numbers appear in dashboards. And accountants are told to just trust them. Our team at @usemonk took a different approach. We set out to make every number traceable and defensible. Today, @zhou_squared shares our product philosophy on building for accounting/finance professionals. We’ve been fortunate to have the support of our customers and experts in this build. Thank you for continued feedback!

If anyone wants to "lose" start a multi billion $$$ fintech company, hit me up for a pre-seed check

When @nbobba writes, you read. It is very simple. This is an excellent piece on the realities of the operating environment today (all thanks to AI)

🇲🇽 @btv_vc team retreat, told in media

$3 Trillion is currently stuck in unpaid invoices. An average invoice takes 59 days to clear. If you're doing >$10M in revenue, getting paid in 30 days instead of 59 days will literally make you millions over 2 years. Introducing Monk. It collects your money faster and pays for itself in 30 days, guaranteed. Fast-growing companies like ElevenLabs and Profound rely on Monk. The Problem: 39% of the $3T stuck is due to two stupid reasons: 1. "Please fix this comma in the invoice and then we'll pay you'" (this happens 2-3 times per transaction) 2. "Sorry the payment reminder got buried in my inbox" (automated emails get ignored) A payment that should take 2 days, takes 10 days. Your cash on hand is embarrassingly behind "recorded revenue". To fix this, we raised $4M led by @btv_vc with participation from @gtmfund and @danonanthony. For our first product, we had to innovate on 3 dimensions: 1. Monk turns signed contracts into invoices with near-perfect precision - We leverage frontier models to extract key terms from your deals and turn them into invoices. 2. ⁠Monk collects payments agentically with a 24% better reply rate than automated emails: - Tuned to write emails that feel like a human request, not spam. Your invoice is competing with everything in their inbox. - We know how to find an alternate point-of-contact when someone is OOO, when to reach out, and what tonality yields a higher response rate. If you had someone on your team whose invoice emails got answered 24% more than others - that would be a big deal. You’d make them the head of revenue collection. 3. Granular visibility into your cashflow: - Understand your cash position, aging, or expansion/contraction at customer level. Book a demo at monk.com/book-a-demo-form and we guarantee that Monk will pay for itself within 30 days. If you've read this far, we are giving away 40 water-tight contract templates. This would cost >$10K to any agency, startups, or freelancer, to create from scratch. Retweet this and comment 'Monk' and we'll send them to you.

Excited to announce @btv_vc investment in @usemonk where we led their $4M seed earlier this year. Founders, @GeorgeKurdin and Joe are building the complete agentic stack for the ~$3T outstanding accounts receivable (AR) problem. In the 6 months since investing they’ve already landed high growth upstarts such as @tryprofound and Elevenlabs. AI promises outcomes instead of workflows. But what happens when deterministic workflows have subjectivity wrapped around them? At BTV, we think Accounts Receivable and Revenue Operations teams face the brunt of this. Any outstanding payment falls on a spectrum of objective resolution on one end and subjective resolution on the other. In the near term, it is relatively straightforward to assume AI and automation will address the objective end of the spectrum, the more interesting and of course harder challenge is in utilizing agents to navigate the subjective end too. Context, tone, personality and of course, judgement matter. Monk understands and is energized by the scale and technical complexity of this opportunity. And when solved, expects to be the agentic rails upon which businesses can 10x payment cycles and cash flow. If this excites you, Monk is hiring for roles in New York! And great to partner with @danonanthony at ReRail and @gtmfund @pitdesi

Announcing our third fund @btv_vc. Some thoughts on the fund and fintech in the age of AI! @pitdesi @iamjakestream @jbahrdestefano

We've got more work to do! And great companies to support. jobs.btv.vc/jobs

We @btv_vc raised another $140M to continue to back the best pre-seed and seed stage founders building fintech companies. Grateful to our team, founders, and investors!