Minerva — Startup Profile

AI-native accounting firm for SMBs

HQ: San Francisco, CA | Founded: 2025 | Employees: 5 | Stage: Seed | Website: https://tryminerva.ai

About

Minerva is an AI-native accounting firm combining AI agents with accountants. Automates bookkeeping, tax filing, and financial advisory for SMBs. Sits on top of QuickBooks, ingests bank feeds, invoices, chats, docs. Founded by Peter Zhu (CEO) and Om Agarwal (CTO). Zhu studied Math/CS at Brown, worked at Tower Research and Citadel (quant), built health tech. Agarwal built healthcare practice management software. YC X25. Raised $2M+ from YC, Amino Capital, Goodwater Capital. SF.

The Take

Bold vision to replace accountants with AI. Founding team has strong credentials (Brown, Citadel, Tower Research). $2M+ from Goodwater and Amino is solid. Key risk: very early; the 'replace accountants' pitch is aggressive for a regulated industry.

Key People

Peter Zhu
Om Agarwal

Key Competitors

Timeline Highlights

2025-06: Raised $2M seed from Amino/Goodwater
2025-05: Raised $525K pre-seed from YC
2025-03: YC X25 batch
2025: Minerva founded

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