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She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta
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- Mar 19, 2026
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Summary
Helen was a software engineer who noticed a massive problem: accounting software for startups was broken, manual, and weeks out of date. Instead of just building a shiny new dashboard on top of legacy platforms, she decided to completely replace the offshore accounting model with AI. In this episode, Helen breaks down how she raised a $4.7M seed round pre-product as a solo founder and why she chose to build an AI-enabled service instead of pure software. She reveals the exact user research pl...