Joe Zhou

cofounder @usemonk. prev @snap @google, @penn alum

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Madhav Srinivasan has led finance at some of the countrys largest law firms, including Proskauer Rose LLP, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Paul, Weiss, and Dechert LLP. At Net 30, he will speak on how AI will impact the legal services industry and what the business model of the law firm of the future can look like.

Madhav brings a perspective shaped by decades at the helm of finance for the country's leading firms. We are honored to welcome him to the Net 30 stage.

October 21st // New York, hosted by @usemonk at The Times Center

Request an invite in comments

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Join us on 10/21 at the The Times Center to hear perspectives from finance leaders, operators, and academia on how AI is reshaping finance.

Request an invite via link in comments.

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

apply today, link in comments

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

We are announcing Net30 - an applied AI summit on the future of finance in the age of automation.

You will see what's working right now at the frontier of applied AI, hear from finance leaders on the evolution of the strategic finance role and meet peers deploying agents in production.

October 21st // New York, hosted by @usemonk at The Times Center

Request an invite in comments

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

@benln @usemonk
https://t.co/id4KMQICGq
Flatiron, NYC

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

@sahil_seth awesome launch team!

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

cash flow is the new growth metric

deloitte surveyed 2,313 us public companies and found

revenue +6.8%
ebitda +9.9%
but cash conversion moved less than a day

receivables got worse

revenue isn't cash. but it can be

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

@usemonk @GeorgeKurdin @pablosrugo amazing take

[Monk @usemonk]

Updates from the Monk team that reduce manual work and put your AR on autopilot.

Highlights from the June 1 - June 15 changelog below.

[Monk @usemonk]

birthday season at monk hq for Fabio!

[Monk @usemonk]

Just shipped a major upgrade in beta: 13-week cash forecasting on Monk 🚀

Most teams spend a quarter rebuilding the last one. Monk turns every invoice into a live view of your cash, what's owed, at risk, and landing next, now projected further out, 13 weeks.

[Monk @usemonk]

We're obsessed with helping you get paid fast.

We wrapped up the Gartner conference last weekend and had over 100 conversations with finance leaders who are actively rethinking how they run AR.

The pattern we kept hearing: solutions take months to implement and still aren't AI-native.

Monk goes live in days, not months.
White-glove onboarding and 7-day support.
AI-native from day one. Julia, our agent, drives 24% faster responses than standard dunning.

$1B in AR already under management. 

Next stop, London for Tech Week and Stripe Tour 2026. If you'll be there, reach out.

[Monk @usemonk]

We just crossed $1B in receivables under management.

Next stop: Automate 2026 (June 22-25, Chicago). First AI-native AR automation company to exhibit.

Come find us if you're there.
https://t.co/akES0qoL7f

[Monk @usemonk]

The hard part of cash application isn't matching payments to invoices. It's figuring out what the payor intended.

A $9,750 payment on a $10,000 invoice could be a short-pay, an approved discount, a processor fee, or an error. The answer changes everything downstream.

full breakdown in thread 👇

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Today @usemonk is sharing the definitive AR guide. Written for CFOs evaluating build vs. buy, RevOps leaders tired of finance escalations, and AR teams stuck running the same manual playbook on a new tool.

Most AR content is about collections tactics: send reminders, escalate faster, call more.

What no one talks about is that high DSO is rarely a pure collections problem. It's an infrastructure problem that starts the moment a contract is signed.

At @usemonk we spent the past year working with finance teams across SaaS, services, and manufacturing businesses of all sizes. The same failure points keep showing up: (1) every late payment and customer are treated the same, (2) recurring exceptions handled manually, (3) dunning that fires on a schedule instead of responding to context, and (4) cash application that lags close by days.

Above all - we've seen the work from the last mile of AR (the edge cases) fall back on the working team. Not okay.

Fixing these issues is what drives 40%+ DSO reduction. A better email template and a dunning sequence are not helpful.

Link in comments (no paywall or code needed to read). All yours.

Happy to answer any questions

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

searching for a visual designer who obsesses over their craft

- ASAP start
- remote or in-person in NYC
- email portfolio to [email protected]

[Joe Zhou @zhou_squared]

@pitdesi @footworkvc @AcrewCapital thank you team! excited for more with you

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Monk gets you paid faster- a lot faster

Monk customers see cash in hand increase by 40%, and median time to go live is only 4 days.

They just raised $25M from @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital to crush the $3T AR gap.

Hiring in NYC: https://t.co/cdh9fJfIin

[Andrew McKinzie @onnbase]

We're thrilled to announce that @AcrewCapital has co-led @usemonk's $25M Series A alongside our friends @nbt and Mike Smith at @footworkvc , with continued support from our other friend @pitdesi at @btv_vc! Monk is building the AI-native revenue and collections platform that is redefining how modern companies get paid. We're proud to partner with @GeorgeKurdin and Joe Zhou as they bring the enterprise revenue cycle into the modern day.

[nihar bobba @nbobba]

.@usemonk just raised a $25m Series A led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital

Monk is an extremely high talent density vertical AI co out of NYC deploying financial agents across some of businesses most critical workflows, starting with Accounts Receivable (AR)

@GeorgeKurdin, Joe and the Monk team are a special breed that can build, adapt and navigate across multiple arcs of time, strategy and competition while the ground under our feet shifts in real time. If you're looking to advance your career, this will be the place

And a very warm welcome to the team @nbt @msmith492 and @LaurenKolodny!

[George Kurdin @GeorgeKurdin]

Today @usemonk is announcing our $25M Series A co-led by @footworkvc and @AcrewCapital with continued support from @btv_vc.

$3T sits in U.S. accounts receivable. Our mission is to close the gap between earning revenue and receiving it.

For most B2B companies, that gap is 45-90 days, thousands of hours of manual work per year, and millions in trapped working capital. It's a tax every growing business pays.

Monk invented the Intelligent Collections category.

Most AR tools automate the easy parts. We built for the edge cases, portal uploads, PO mismatches, and disputes.

On average, customers see 40% lower DSO, 24% higher collections response rate and 25+ hours/month saved.

Thank you to @ElevenLabs, @profound, @siro_app, and our customers for the trust.

Our platform typically pays for itself in month one.
Book a demo to learn more.