Startup Accounting Services

Your one stop shop for startup accounting services, from bookkeeping to client invoicing to accounts payable to financial reporting and more.

Startup Accounting Support From From Seed to Exit

Your Graphite accounting team will be made up of experienced Controllers, Accountants and Bookkeepers who understand your business and work with you to develop accounting processes that fit your needs.

Tech Stack Implementation

We’ve built and integrated hundreds of scalable startup accounting tech stacks.

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Comprehensive Bookkeeping

Always-on bookkeeping so your books are accurate, GAAP compliant and ready to use for operating & growth.

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Chart of Accounts Refinement

We help you develop a chart of accounts that provides your startup critical operating insights.

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Operational Accounting

Your one stop shop for everything: We can pay your bills, invoice clients, run payroll, file your taxes and a lot more.

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CFO & Fundraising

Every Graphite client has access to an experienced CFO, whether it’s ad hoc or long-term support.

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Expense Detail Reports

We keep a tight eye on your expenses each month and flag any variances or oddities.

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Financial Reporting

We provide some of the most robust financial reporting in our industry, so founder & operators can focus on using data, not mining it.

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Tax Compliance

We create a proactive compliance calendar and manage all of your tax deadlines and requirements.

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Trusted by hundreds of growing startups, including:

Why Startups Prefer Us

Simple: Our track record & talent. We are your long-term accounting partner, and the US-based team we allocate to you will only be working with a handful of clients at a time, so they can be high-touch, embedded in your business, and feel like an in-house team. Below are the key reasons why startups prefer us.

01 Scalability

We support from seed to exit. No more hopping from firm to firm.

02 A Full Stack

Each startup gets a team (not just a single accountant) that matches their needs.

03 Track Record

Our experience speaks for itself. 7+ years. 250+ startups.

04 Reporting

Startups receive robust and accurate financials each month.

05 Top Talent

Talent that has worked with hundreds of startups, at your fingertips.

06 Cost

A flexible, fractional & affordable engagement structures.

FAQs

Why do most growing startups work with Graphite?

The main reason startups choose to work with us are:

Our track record: We’ve helped hundreds of startups grow from seed through their later series rounds and for many, their exits. 

In-House Feel: With other firms, you’ll likely get a team from a service center that is working with 15 or 20 clients at a time. We are the opposite side of the spectrum. We are your long-term partner, and the US-based team we allocate to you will only be working with a handful of clients at a time, so they can be high-touch, embedded in your business, and feel like an in-house team. 

Scalability: Hopping from accounting firm to accounting firm as you scale is not fun. That’s why startups prefer Graphite. We are a one-stop-shop. We handle everything (bookkeeping, operational accounting, CFO, FP&A, tax, etc.) and have yet to meet our match in terms of scale.

Robust Reporting: The clients that work with us receive some of the most insightful business reporting in the industry. Here is an example of our financial health dashboard we set up for our clients. We help our operators keep a tight understanding of unit economics, growth and capital needs.

Top Talent: Our team members have worked with hundreds of startups, and have a wealth of knowledge about your specific industry.

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How much does it cost?

Our pricing structure is really simple and extremely fair (it has to be, as we focus on startups). Because we are more of a finance partner compared to your normal “outsourced” bookkeeping firm, all of our engagements are custom.

Our engagements start at $900/mo for select pre revenue companies and grow from there based on a startups goals and needs.

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How do you handle the transition from our current firm to Graphite?

Most of our clients come to us from a sub par experience with another firm, so we are used to facilitating and managing transitions. Along with your direct Graphite team, every client is also staffed with an onboarding manager who will be the one to manage the transition so you don’t have to.

Who will be my point of contact?

Every client we work with is assigned a dedicated team, usually consisting of two to four team members. Of those team members, we will define a main POC. And to make things easier for you, we will simply create an email alias that goes to your entire Graphite team.

And if you use Slack, we love Slack! We can create a slack instance and communicate there.

What is communication cadence like?

We are speaking with most of our clients on a regular basis. Some daily. Others have weekly or bi-weekly standing meetings. Think of it like this: However you would communicate with an internal finance team, that’s how we can communicate.

Do you provide tax filings as a stand alone service?

We do, yes! And we can quickly get you pricing. For a quick quote, click here.

When is the best time to start working with an accounting/finance firm like Graphite?

In reality, the second you start developing your product and spending money is when you need to start keeping clean books. There are always inflection points (for example a company raising money and investors needing them to provide clean financials, or a bank requiring GAAP compliant financials in order to provide a loan) where you don’t want to be scrambling to get those things together.

Yes, you need to have some sort of cash flow (investment dollars, working capital or revenue) to pay for a service like ours, but the earlier you do so, the more money you will save in the long run and the cleaner your books will be in order to fundraise and progress your business.

What does your financial modeling and FP&A service include?

Our financial planning & analysis (FP&A) support, aka Tier 2 in our service tiers, is a fully managed and always on FP&A service. On top of bookkeeping, we also handle building you a financial model and a financial health dashboard (demo here), and updating/maintaining that dashboard over time so we can provide you with full financial insights around your business. 

We can also offer you a Fractional CFO to help with things like fundraising, M&A, and driving strategic initiatives.

Contact us here to speak with one of our CFOs.

What stage company is the best fit for Graphite?

Graphite works (and scales) with startups anywhere from a few founders working on their idea all the way to a growing startup with 100s of employees. We have yet to meet our match in terms of a company too large!

Our sweet spot is well capitalized startups who have found product market fit.

How does your pricing compare to a full-time person

For most startups, you don’t need 40 hrs/wk of work from an internal finance hire or team, especially when you first hire them. Fractional work, like Graphite, provides a much more efficient approach, as you are only paying for the exact effort you need at that moment in time. You also don’t pay us for benefits, downtime and vacation! So, our cost tends to be much more efficient than hiring an internal team member.

Where is your team based?

Our hubs are in New York and Florida, but our team is fully remote across the US!

Do you handle sales tax?

Yes, we do handle sales tax! And we can quickly get you pricing. For a quick quote, click here.

How long do clients work with Graphite on average?

Most companies work with Graphite for long periods of time, as our service is extremely scalable and cost-efficient. There are “bandaid” accounting services that are more so quick fixes for short periods of time, and then there is Graphite…the long term partner. Most of our clients work with us for years and years, and we take many through their exits, M&As, etc.

What are your security protocols?

We have an internal security team and take data security very seriously.

Do you help companies set up their software and tech stack?

Yes! We are a “tech-focused” firm and recommend/setup all different types of tools and softwares to our clients. We have standard tools that we prefer and will recommend, but we can also mold to softwares you are using and prefer as well.

Graphite was quite literally the best value add service I have received from any investor. I can’t recommend them enough.

— Rami Essaid, Founder, Distil Networks

Our Leadership

Paul Bianco
Founder, CEO

Former VC @ ff Venture Capital, Investor in Plated and Distil Networks

Jocelyn Wilson
COO

15+ years of accounting & operations experience in both public accounting & private startups

Chris Mossa
Chief Strategy Officer

Former Founder & CEO at CPM Advisory, CFO at Advizr, Investor in multiple early-stage startups

Josh Leider
Head of Growth

Previous Co-Founder & CMO of MeditationWorks and TempoRun

Benjamin Friedman
Head of Customer Success

20+ years’ ops & finance experience with fast-growing companies, including five successful M&As

Sean

Sean Bies
Managing Director, Client Services

Experienced Controller working with eCommerce startups and fortune 500 companies

Sam Patel
Managing Director, Client Services

Accomplished Controller, 15+ years accounting experience

Heather

Heather Fipps
Managing Director

Experienced Controller with 16+ years in accounting leadership

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Michael Smith
Managing Director, Tax

30+ years of tax and accounting experience

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Heather Stein
Managing Director, Finance

20+ year accounting & finance experience providing business insight in growth environments

Donny Tyra
Director, Technical Accounting

Experienced CFO, 25+ years of accounting experience

Didier Jupillat
Director

Experienced CFO, 18+ years accounting & finance experience, MBA Wharton

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Locations: NYC HQ / Clients around the world

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