AppZen
appzen.com
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Fraud Detection
Procurement & Spend Management
Financial AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$282.5M
6 rounds on record
Latest round
$180M
Series D · Sep 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
145
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
15
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
7
500 Global, Coatue
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
30/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 21
Launched AppZen launches AP Inbox Service Center, bringing AI Agents to the most manual process in accounts payable · PRNewswire
Dec 15, 2025
Launched AppZen Launches AI Agent Studio, Disrupting Outsourcing with Digital Coworkers · PRNewswire
Sep 22, 2025
Raised a round Series D $180M · led by Riverwood Capital
Jun 24, 2021
Launched AppZen Launches First Finance AI AppStore · PRNewswire
Sep 16, 2020
Launched AppZen Launches Mastermind Analytics to Deliver AI-Powered On-Demand Finance Benchmarking · businesswire.com
Mar 27, 2019
Launched AppZen introduces AI system for auditing supplier invoices and contracts · Accounting Today
Mar 22, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $50M · SEC Form D
Jul 26, 2018
Raised a round Venture round $35M · SEC Form D
May 4, 2018
Partnership AppZen partners with Coupa to improve T&E audit · Accounting Today
Nov 1, 2017
Raised a round Series A $13M · TechCrunch
Jan 6, 2017
Raised a round Venture round $1.6M · SEC Form D
Apr 27, 2016
Raised a round Venture round $2.9M · SEC Form D
2012
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.4%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Sep 2025 | $180M | Riverwood Capital lead | axios.com |
| Venture round | Mar 2019 | $50M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Jul 2018 | $35M | — | SEC Form D |
| Series A | Nov 2017 | $13M | — | TechCrunch |
| Venture round | Jan 2017 | $1.6M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Apr 2016 | $2.9M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | AppZen, Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Anant KaleExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Kunal VermaExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Naresh BansalExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Matt ZelenExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
500 Global 
Coatue 
FundersClub 
Geodesic Capital 
Lightspeed Venture Partners 
Redpoint Ventures 
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How AppZen hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Median time to fill
79 days
Ghost roles
33%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
AppZen scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 15 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 33% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 79 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Visa sponsorship
- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 4 · green card filings: 2
- United Kingdom · Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker)
Overview
Headquartered in San Jose, California, AppZen is a leading developer of AI-powered finance and spend automation software. The company provides autonomous accounts payable and expense auditing platforms that analyze transactions in real time to reduce fraud and compliance risks. By integrating seamlessly with existing enterprise systems, it enables global organizations to streamline financial workflows and optimize operational efficiency.
News
AI's getting all up in our business travel (article; opens in a new tab)
From reimbursements to booking trips, companies are turning to AI to streamline the process of heading out of town.
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AI-Generated Fake Receipts Are Changing Expense Fraud
AI-generated fake receipts are making expense fraud cheaper, easier, and harder to detect, forcing companies to rethink how they verify employee claims.
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AI-Generated Receipts Drive Majority of Expense Fraud
Two studies released in mid-2026 show AI-generated fake expense receipts have rapidly become the dominant form of expense fraud. AppZen platform data reported in Accounting Today shows the share of flagged fraudulent receipts that were AI-generated went f
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AI-Generated Fake Receipts Now Make Up 71% of Expense Fraud
Expense management firm Emburse found 4 in 10 employees in the U.S. and U.K. have used AI to generate a fake expense receipt.
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Use of AI receipts in expense fraud soars
AI has become the No. 1 way to fake receipts for expense fraud. Before then, people generally relied on specialized templates from sketchy websites.
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AppZen Autonomous AP for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition Achieves SAP-Certified for Clean Core with RISE with SAP
/PRNewswire/ -- AppZen, the leader in AI-powered finance operations, announced today that its Autonomous AP platform has achieved SAP-certified for clean core...
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As AI Dread Grows, Not Everyone Is Worried
Spring 2026 has been the season of our discontent over artificial intelligence.
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AI Is Replacing Jobs, But Not Workers Who Master These Skills (article; opens in a new tab)
As companies invest in artificial intelligence over headcount, AppZen co-founder Anant Kale explains why understanding business processes trumps technical expertiseand reveals the three critical skill areas that will keep workers valuable in an AI-driven
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Automating Accounts Payable: AppZen Launches AP Inbox Service Center
Discover how AppZen's new AP Inbox Service Center uses prebuilt AI agents to fully automate vendor email management and streamline your accounts payable.
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AppZen Launches AI-Powered AP Inbox Service Center
AppZen launches AP Inbox Service Center with AI agents, turning vendor emails into trackable, auditable requests for AP teams.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at AppZen over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
80
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
88/100AI adopter
Languages
Python47%
SQL33%
JavaScript20%
Go13%
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain13%
LangGraph13%
Flask13%
AutoGen7%
Databases
Oracle27%
PostgreSQL20%
Amazon Redshift13%
Milvus7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS47%
Azure20%
GCP20%
Kubernetes20%
AI & ML
Claude13%
Gemini7%
LLM7%
LoRA7%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$60k – $225k
Open positions
6
5
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 5 | $190k | $134k – $225k |
Highest paying role
Senior Product Manager - B2B Payments
$225k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at AppZen
By role, level and city, against the market · 6 jobs with pay
People
Anant Kale
Executive Officer, Director
Kunal Verma
Executive Officer, Director
Naresh Bansal
Executive Officer
Matt Zelen
Executive Officer
Alex Bard
Director
Arif Janmohamed
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
66/100
Growing
Open positions
15
1 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
74 days
faster than 18% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
27% ▼
AI/ML
9% ▲
Backend
9% ▼
DevOps
9% ▲
Leadership
9% ▼
Product
9% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Germany
Oct 2026
Added Copilot to stack
Oct 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack
Sep 2026
Added SOAP to stack
Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Slack to stack
Sep 2026
Added Postman to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
4
Countries
3
Busiest office
San Jose
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San Jose
United States
HQ
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $205k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Design, Marketing
Pune
India
Engineering / R&D
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Backend
London
United Kingdom
Sales office
4 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $200k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Marketing
Phoenix
United States
Sales office
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $60k Avg Salary
hires for Sales
Jobs
≈ $12k – $30k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • Pune
Python
Flask
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
Milvus
pgvector
Pinecone
FAISS
AI/ML
LangGraph
Weights & Biases
LangChain
LlamaIndex
LoRA
Fine-tuning
Embeddings
Function Calling
Chain-of-Thought
AI Agents
NLP
Arize Phoenix
LangSmith
PEFT
PyTorch
Gemini
LLM
RAG
Hallucination
OpenAI
Anthropic
OCR
Structured Outputs
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Apply
$180k – $190k per year • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Jose
Human-in-the-Loop
Agentic Workflows
Apply
≈ $19k – $39k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Pune
Python
MySQL
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Jenkins
AWS
Opsgenie
Bitbucket
Amazon EC2
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
Amazon S3
Linux
Windows
Management
Slack
Confluence
Jira
ITIL
QA
Postman
Apply
$180k – $225k per year • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Jose
Apply
≈ $28k – $76k per year (Estimated) • In office • 10+ years exp • Pune
SQL
Oracle
DevOps
Rest API
SOAP
Analytics
ETL/ELT
Apply
≈ $17k – $40k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Pune
Python
Go
JavaScript
SQL
Oracle
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
SOAP
Apply
≈ $22k – $45k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Pune
Python
SQL
Flask
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
Amazon Redshift
DevOps
AWS
Amazon S3
Analytics
Tableau
ETL/ELT
Superset
Domo
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$282.5M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
6