Helen Hastings
Founder and CEO building Quanta, an AI-enabled accounting service aiming to replace legacy tools like QuickBooks by automating bookkeeping and delivering timely financial visibility for startups; raised seed and Series A funding including from Accel.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 57min
She raised $20M from Accel to replace QuickBooks with AI. | Helen Hastings, Founder of Quanta
Helen Hastings, founder and CEO of Quanta who raised seed and Series A funding including from Accel, built an AI-enabled accounting service to replace legacy tools like QuickBooks. She discusses running 200 user interviews, why starting as an AI-enabled service beats pure SaaS, rebuilding the ledger from scratch, the pitfalls of saying yes to too many customers, and the moment PMF forced a growth pause.
Dec 17, 2025 • 0sec
#2288 She had people do AI’s work
Helen Hastings, founder and CEO of Quanta, a cutting-edge accounting platform, shares her journey from engineering at Affirm and Google to revolutionizing bookkeeping. She discusses how she initially had humans perform tasks that AI later tackled. Helen reveals insights from shadowing bookkeepers and highlights the pain points of current systems. Quanta builds a new ledger from scratch, emphasizing real-time data and leveraging a hybrid model. She also unveils Prism, a feature that provides natural-language reports, transforming accounting for software companies.
