Enterprise finance teams book revenue when they ship product, but the cash arrives only after orders, credit checks, invoices, disputes, and payments all clear, and businesses worldwide have $16T stuck somewhere in that chain. The people who chase that money keep leaving, with more than 300,000 accountants exiting the profession since 2019, while each extra day customers take to pay ties up about $150B for US businesses. Stuut builds an AI coworker that runs the process from order to cash, handling order management, collections, payments, cash application, disputes, and deductions inside the ERPs enterprises already use. Most finance software surfaces a problem and waits for a person to fix it, but Stuut takes the next action itself, whether that means contacting a customer, investigating a dispute, or applying a payment, and it remembers each customer’s payment history so teams never rebuild the story at a handoff. More than 150 companies, from the mid-market to the Fortune 50, including Honeywell, ZoomInfo, and PerkinElmer, use the platform, and they report up to 40% more cash flow and a 47% cut in DSO. With more than $3B moved through the platform and deployments that go live in days, Stuut now aims to take on credit, lending, and the movement of funds as enterprises hand it more of the order-to-cash process.
AlleyWatch sat down with Stuut Cofounder and CEO Tarek Alaruri to learn more about the business, its future plans, recent funding round, and much, much more…
Who were your investors and how much did you raise?
We raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Activant. The round comes ten months after our Series A and brings our total funding to $93M.
Tell us about the product or service that Stuut offers.
Stuut is the AI coworker that runs order-to-cash for the world’s leading enterprises. Across order management, credit, collections, payments, cash application, disputes and deductions, Stuut does the work end to end and keeps going until the cash hits the bank. Over 150 companies, spanning the mid-market to the Fortune 50, including Honeywell, ZoomInfo and PerkinElmer, use Stuut to unlock up to 40% more cash flow and cut DSO by 47%. More than $3 billion has moved through the platform to date.
What inspired the start of Stuut?
Earlier in my career at Total Quality Logistics, I saw how much work went into collecting invoices that were delayed by basic clerical issues. A missing purchase order or an invoice sent to the wrong person could set off weeks of follow-up. I started Stuut with collections because that pain was so visible. As the company continued to work with larger enterprises, we saw that the overdue invoice was often the final symptom of a problem further upstream. That led to building an AI coworker that could carry the context and do the work across the entire order-to-cash process.
How is Stuut different?
Stuut actually does the work. Most finance software organizes tasks, surfaces problems and asks a person to resolve them. Stuut takes the next action itself, whether that means contacting a customer, investigating a dispute or applying a payment. It also remembers what happened across the full customer relationship, so teams do not have to reconstruct the story at every handoff. Every payment, promise and exception helps it make better decisions over time. And it is built for enterprise reality: legacy ERPs, multiple entities, large transaction volumes and strict financial controls, with deployments in days.
What market does Stuut target and how big is it?
We serve B2B companies from the mid-market to the Fortune 50, particularly businesses with large invoice volumes, complex customer relationships and fragmented systems. That includes manufacturers, distributors, industrial businesses and medical device companies. Businesses worldwide carry $16 trillion in receivables, including $7.2 trillion in the US. That is the amount of cash tied up in receivables, rather than the size of the software market. Our opportunity is to automate the work required to move that money from an order to the bank.
What’s your business model?
B2B.
How are you preparing for a potential economic slowdown?
We are focused on delivering value that customers can measure directly in their cash flow and operating capacity. When budgets tighten, getting paid for work already completed becomes even more important. Stuut helps companies release working capital and serve more accounts with the team they already have. Internally, our priority is to put capital behind the product and customer delivery capabilities that produce those outcomes, with hiring and expansion tied to clear business needs.
What was the funding process like?
We raised this round as customer demand expanded beyond collections into the full order-to-cash lifecycle. That gave us a concrete story to bring to investors: enterprises were already using Stuut, seeing measurable results and trusting it with more of their operations. Insight Partners had also known me for nearly a decade and had backed me previously. This round gives us the resources to meet that demand and build further into the financial infrastructure around each transaction.
What are the milestones you plan to achieve in the next six months?
Over the next six months, our priorities are to bring Stuut to more enterprises, expand adoption across the full order-to-cash lifecycle and deepen the capabilities that let it handle complex exceptions autonomously. We want existing customers to trust Stuut with more of their operations while preserving fast deployment and clear financial controls. We will measure progress through customer adoption, faster payment, less manual work and the share of the operation Stuut can run without human intervention.
What advice can you offer companies in New York that do not have a fresh injection of capital in the bank?
Stay close to the problem customers are willing to pay you to solve. Focus your resources on the work that delivers a clear result, and use that evidence to earn the next customer. Also, pay attention to your own working capital. A sale is not cash until you get paid, and improving how quickly money moves through the business can create room to invest without raising another round. New funding gives you options, but the business still has to earn its growth.
Where do you see the company going now over the near term?
We see Stuut becoming responsible for more of the journey from order to cash. Customers are already expanding its role: ZoomInfo into disputes, Honeywell toward quote-to-cash, and Bishop Lifting across collections, disputes and cash application. The near-term focus is to deepen that work and bring it to more enterprises. Over time, the same context and ability to act can support credit, lending and the movement of funds. Our mission is to make the movement of money between businesses autonomous.
What’s your favorite fall destination in and around the city?
Carl Schultz Park with my daughter (who is a princess ).
