Work operating system for accounting and professional service firms
HQ: United States | Founded: 2022 | Employees: 6 | Stage: Pre-Seed | Website: https://getcone.io
Cone is an AI-powered work operating system for accounting and professional service firms. The platform unifies proposals, tasks, billing, payments, and client engagement into one platform. Features include branded web proposals with buyer engagement notifications, automated quotes and billing, time tracking, practice management, and a client portal. Cone aims to eliminate the need for separate proposal, time tracking, billing, project management, and client portal software. Founded in 2022 by Jahangir Mohammed, Bharath Kumar Reddy, and Mohammad Owaiz Shaik. Mohammed previously co-founded Joveo (scaled from 4 to 300 employees) and held technical/product leadership roles. Reddy was a founding engineer at Rialtic (raised $45M Series A) and previously co-founded adaptive.team. He holds Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras. Shaik handles design. YC Summer 2022 batch. Raised $500K from Y Combinator and $1.7M from General Catalyst, XYZ.vc, Khosla Ventures, and YC. Team of ~6 across US and India.
Cone targets the fragmented tool stack of accounting firms — most use separate tools for proposals, time tracking, billing, project management, and client portals. Cone's unified 'work OS' approach makes sense, and the team has strong founder credentials (Jahangir scaled Joveo from 4 to 300 employees, Bharath was founding engineer at Rialtic which raised $45M). Backing from General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures alongside YC is impressive for a pre-seed. Key risk: competing with both specialized tools (Keeper, Practice Ignition) and full practice management suites (Karbon, Canopy).
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