Monk

Footwork leads the Series A for the AI-native accounts receivable platform.

If you’re fortunate as a venture capitalist, you have a handful of moments every year where you meet a founder and within 15 minutes you know you have to invest.

I’ve had one of those moments in 2026. Last month, in March, I arrived at an airport, finished a phone call, and rushed through TSA to get to the next one. I got on the phone with George Kurdin, co-founder and CEO at Monk. For the first five minutes, George asked me questions, and we ended up having a thoughtful discussion about the portfolio situation that had made me late to the call.

And then George launched into the story of Monk. It was simple, concise, precise. I could tell he was unwavering in his conviction on why the business is working and why it will be big. I was hooked. My partner Mike met him in NYC the following day, we all met in SF a few days later, and then at the end of the week, we met George and his co-founder Joe Zhou in-person again to give them an offer to invest.

Monk’s homepage.

Today we’re announcing Monk’s $25M Series A, co-led by Footwork and Acrew Capital (a delight to work with Lauren Kolodny, who I’ve grown up alongside in venture for the past decade+), with participation from Better Tomorrow Ventures (huge thanks to our friend Sheel Mohnot for the connection!). More from Ryan Lawler in Axios here, and directly from the founders here.

Why did we get so excited to partner with Monk?

1. The team has built a magical customer experience. Monk is the only AI-native accounts receivable platform in market today. The product automates the invoice-to-cash lifecycle: invoicing, intelligent collections, cash application, and reporting. This is a manual process for most finance teams today — sitting between emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, payment rails, and banks. Monk automates it, saving finance teams time, and enabling businesses to get paid accurately and more quickly.

2. It’s loved by several forward-thinking AI-native companies. For customers like ElevenLabs, Profound, and Siro, Monk is making the lives of the finance teams, and those around them, so much easier. It simply gets them paid, faster. On average, customers see 40% lower DSO (days sales outstanding), 24% higher collections response rate, and 25+ hours/month saved. The platform typically pays for itself in month one. These are demanding teams operating at the frontier of AI. Delighting them is hard, but in doing so Monk is building a product that can one day be used by every enterprise.

3. The vision starts with AR but is much bigger. Stripe started with payment processing. Ramp started with corporate cards. Like those two companies, Monk has the opportunity to move beyond its initial wedge to building a broader B2B finance and revenue platform.

4. It really does all come back to the team. George and Joe have built a small in-person team in NYC with an exceedingly high bar for talent. They are intense. They are mission-driven. They hold nothing sacred as an AI-native company, and realize they must evolve quickly as the capabilities of the models evolve.

If the above resonates, come join us at Monk — we’re hiring across engineering and go-to-market. And if your business can benefit from automating AR, please reach out.

Most of Monk’s team today.