US AI finance platform Numero has acquired Chennai startup Royu in a cash-and-stock deal described as a double digit million acquisition, despite Royu being under a year old. Royu’s founders will take senior roles as Numero expands into an “agentic AI worker layer” for CFO offices, aiming to deploy AI across finance functions like bookkeeping, order-to-cash, and month-end closing.
OpenAI has acquired Hiro Finance, a 2023-founded startup backed by Ribbit, General Catalyst, and Restive. Just five months after launching, Hiro rolled out an AI personal finance planning tool that lets users enter salary, debt, and monthly expenses to model multiple scenarios and guide decisions—now brought under OpenAI’s umbrella.
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