Anthony Danon

Coding agents are surprisingly bad at spreadsheets. They'll cobble together a Python script that silently breaks formulas, misreads cached values, or corrupts formatting. The problem isn't the model, it's the tools. We built Witan to fix this. witanlabs.com/agents

The public markets have decided that SaaS revenue durability and growth is challenged at best and extinct at worst. So where is value in a world of uncertainty. Gnarly, f****** hard, backend businesses. Fintech for one. Airwallex and @awxjack the level of integrations, partnerships, permissions with banks around the world. Insanely hard. OpenAI ain’t coming for this. 😉

Revenue automation software has a credibility problem. Numbers appear in dashboards. And accountants are told to just trust them. Our team at @usemonk took a different approach. We set out to make every number traceable and defensible. Today, @zhou_squared shares our product philosophy on building for accounting/finance professionals. We’ve been fortunate to have the support of our customers and experts in this build. Thank you for continued feedback!

@GeorgeKurdin @usemonk @zhou_squared Fastest moving team in the space. You keep raising the bar 🚀

The average dunning email gets ignored. You are literally sending "please ignore me" messages to customers who owe you money. Playbooks - our workflow system for intelligent collections - is now live on the @usemonk platform. A system that reasons, not just reminds. We filmed a 60 second video showing you an experiment between @zhou_squared and @francescocoacci collecting $100K. Finance, biz-ops and post-sales teams should not be spending time chasing customers. Many spend 10+hrs/week doing what Joe did in this video: - context switching between tools (slack, gmail, quickbooks, google sheets) - breaking flow from deep work - sending reminders because the average dunning email is ignored But agentic collections are not enough. Every customer relationship is different. Some need white-glove treatment and others a nudge. That’s why we built playbooks, giving every business a customizable collection workflow. With playbooks you can: - create triggers and workflows specific to a customer segment (tone shift, conditions, escalations to sales/customer support) - auto-resolve AP questions with context from relevant email threads - pause automatically when product questions or upsells opportunities come up Playbooks is how you get paid while you sleep. And we do it with professionalism and empathy that your customers deserve. Heading into Q1 with a gap between signed ARR and actual cash? Watch the video. And if you want to see bloopers from Frank/Joe filming, comment “payday” + tag a teammate and we will send you bloopers from the shoot.

Where are the European Super Angels? These are high volume, incredibly well connected angel investors that often go on to raise their own funds. The US is FULL of them (e.g. @JoshuaKushner, @sacca), where Europe doesn't seem to have many. I know of: @danonanthony: Operator and now investor at rerail. Investments include @fuseenergy, @TideBusiness and @TrueLayer @AlexBerriche: Founder, scout at @sequoia and angel into @lovable, @fyxerai and Tandem Health Who else is out there? I interviewed Alex on the latest @ScalingEurope show which I'll link below.

@usemonk @btv_vc @gtmfund @AlexBerriche @AdamCoccari team @usemonk bringing end to end automation to invoice collection and beyond. Let's go !

grateful to our customers, early design partners and to @btv_vc @gtmfund @danonanthony @AlexBerriche and @AdamCoccari for the support and the trust lots of work ahead let's go!

@GeorgeKurdin agentic AI bringing end to end automation, invoice collection on autopilot, a no-brainer ROI

$3 Trillion is currently stuck in unpaid invoices. An average invoice takes 59 days to clear. If you're doing >$10M in revenue, getting paid in 30 days instead of 59 days will literally make you millions over 2 years. Introducing Monk. It collects your money faster and pays for itself in 30 days, guaranteed. Fast-growing companies like ElevenLabs and Profound rely on Monk. The Problem: 39% of the $3T stuck is due to two stupid reasons: 1. "Please fix this comma in the invoice and then we'll pay you'" (this happens 2-3 times per transaction) 2. "Sorry the payment reminder got buried in my inbox" (automated emails get ignored) A payment that should take 2 days, takes 10 days. Your cash on hand is embarrassingly behind "recorded revenue". To fix this, we raised $4M led by @btv_vc with participation from @gtmfund and @danonanthony. For our first product, we had to innovate on 3 dimensions: 1. Monk turns signed contracts into invoices with near-perfect precision - We leverage frontier models to extract key terms from your deals and turn them into invoices. 2. ⁠Monk collects payments agentically with a 24% better reply rate than automated emails: - Tuned to write emails that feel like a human request, not spam. Your invoice is competing with everything in their inbox. - We know how to find an alternate point-of-contact when someone is OOO, when to reach out, and what tonality yields a higher response rate. If you had someone on your team whose invoice emails got answered 24% more than others - that would be a big deal. You’d make them the head of revenue collection. 3. Granular visibility into your cashflow: - Understand your cash position, aging, or expansion/contraction at customer level. Book a demo at monk.com/book-a-demo-fo… and we guarantee that Monk will pay for itself within 30 days. If you've read this far, we are giving away 40 water-tight contract templates. This would cost >$10K to any agency, startups, or freelancer, to create from scratch. Retweet this and comment 'Monk' and we'll send them to you.

Revealed: Phoebe, an AI ‘immune system’ for software founded by former Stripe executives Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, will this week announce that it has raised $17m in seed funding, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Cherry Ventures. news.sky.com/story/ai-immun…

Welcome to the rebel alliance 🏴‍☠️ Me + @danonanthony went deep with @the_euvc + @LPhypeman on new wave of small funds + solo GPs in Europe. - why speed + value add at first round matters right now - rise of "headless round" (no trad lead) - conviction without consensus

@CandiceHdF @OutlierGrove 🚀🚀🚀

Today, I’m introducing @OutlierGrove , an angel & seed fund backing European outliers as they build enduring global B2B tech businesses. Many of the next winners in B2B tech will come from Europe. Outlier Grove is here to accelerate their journey to global category leadership. Here’s how… 🧵

Adyen & Stripe '24 annual reports are out! Processed volume: Adyen: $1.34T, +33% YoY Stripe: $1.4T, +38% YoY Valuation: Adyen: $56B Stripe: $91.5B Employee count: Adyen: 4.3k Stripe: 8.2k Both profitable, Adyen EBITDA of $1B. Note: Stripe has higher margins!

@FinnMurphy12 @Kieranleehill Thank you man! 🙏😊

@Kieranleehill @danonanthony 🔥

Episode 19 of #20Angel now LIVE 🎙️ Welcome #Rerail, the newest entrant to the EU VC ecosystem 🎉 @danonanthony joined me in the hot seat to discuss 🔥 "Fintech is misunderstood and here's where the opportunity lies..." Grab your 🎧 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/4tVcCa…

@_georgerobson @Kieranleehill thank you!

@Kieranleehill @danonanthony 👏

Tune in on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4tVcCa…

A great reminder that as VCs we serve founders and would be out of job without them! Thankful and energized. Let's go 🚀

Thanks so much for having me on #20Angel @Kieranleehill ! one of the most stimulating conversations i've had. Excited to be unvealing #rerail to the world this week and to be talking about 'everything is fintech'

@Kieranleehill Thanks so much for having me on #20Angel @Kieranleehill ! one of the most stimulating conversations i've had. Excited to be launching #rerail into the world this week with this special episode. Tune in: open.spotify.com/episode/4tVcCa…