Finance leaders face reconciliations, slow closes, and constant data juggling. To solve this, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas invested in Maximor, a startup that claims to have cut one customer's month-end close in half. Maximor on Monday announced a $9 million seed round to expand its AI platform and help finance teams move from manual processes to strategic work. Co-founders Ramnandan Krishnamurthy and Ajay Krishna Amudan at Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) witnessed organizations revert to spreadsheets despite ...