Founding a company means wearing dozens of hats, but few weigh more heavily than financial decisions. Yet too often, finance gets postponed until something breaks. Startups need real-time financial visibility from day one.
38% of startups fail due to a lack of funding, making it the single most common reason for failure. What’s the missing piece?
Not just bookkeeping, but real-time visibility and CFO-level insight from the beginning.
The Problem: Startups Are Scaling Without Real-Time Financial Visibility
Even well-funded startups run into a common wall: disconnected systems, manual approvals, and unclear cash flow. As finance gets more complex — international contractors, recurring revenue, investor reporting — the old spreadsheets and junior bookkeepers stop keeping up.
And it’s not just a startup issue.
77% of enterprises still lack real-time ERP data, which means they’re making decisions based on outdated numbers.
As Omri Mor, CEO of Routable, put it on our Founder Files podcast:
“A good CFO is like a coach. The same team with a great coach has championship aspirations.”
Real-Time Finance = Real-Time Decisions
Finance plays a central role across the business. It shapes your ability to:
- Launch new pricing plans
- Make hiring decisions
- Prepare for audits and fundraising
- Forecast burn, cash runway, and growth
But none of that is possible if your systems can’t show you where you stand, right now.
This is why Omri built Routable to sync directly with ERPs like NetSuite with 99.8% accuracy, compared to 80–90% from most competitors. That level of clarity unlocks faster approvals, cleaner books, and stress-free audits.
What Founders Really Need: A Finance Partner, Not Just a Bookkeeper
The answer isn’t to hire a full in-house team before you’re ready; it’s to embed fractional CFO-level insight into your startup early.
A modern finance partner:
- Helps you move beyond reactive bookkeeping
- Implements tools for automation, visibility, and compliance
- Operates with the foresight to flag risks and identify opportunities
- Guides fundraising, profitability, and strategic planning
This is how founders graduate from tracking what happened to influencing what happens next.
How Cypher Helps Founders Build for What’s Next
We work with SaaS, eCommerce, and service-based companies that are growing fast but need expert-level finance without the full-time headcount.
Cypher:
- Builds real-time dashboards
- Automates AR/AP workflows
- Layers in fraud prevention and audit readiness
- Connects finance to product, sales, and operations
- Helps you raise, scale, and plan with confidence
Whether you’ve just raised a Seed round or you’re prepping for Series B, we operate like part of your team, helping you grow without the guesswork.
You don’t need to become a finance expert to lead a high-growth company.
But you do need a system that shows you where you stand — and a partner who can help you act on it.
Cypher delivers both.
