"Tech Finance" with Sasha Orloff: B2B Fintech | AI | Finance Tech E51: Ramp for Revenue: The Tabs Playbook for Faster Cash Flow with CEO Ali Hussain
Jul 24, 2025
Ali Hussain, CEO of Tabs and a former PhD student, dives into how AI is transforming revenue and collections management. He shares insights on reducing days sales outstanding (DSO) and boosting efficiency for finance teams. The discussion covers his $25M funding journey and the integration of AI to streamline financial processes. Ali also highlights the challenges faced by traditional finance systems and the potential for automation to drive scalable growth. Ultimately, he envisions a future where finance professionals adapt creatively to these tech advancements.
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Tabs Modernizes Revenue Management
- Tabs is building a platform that automates revenue, billing, collections, and revenue recognition using AI.
- The platform aims to bring the same tooling automation to customer-side finance as exists for vendor-side like Ramp and Rippling.
Finance Teams Future Unbundling
- Legacy ERPs will unbundle, shrinking to core functionalities while new specialized platforms emerge.
- Future finance systems will focus on flow of funds domains, integrating unstructured commercial data into one platform.
Statsig's DSO Success Story
- Statsig started with a one-person finance team and had 60-80+ day DSOs.
- After using Tabs for 12+ months, they cut DSOs to mid-to-high 30 days and increased revenue 4-5x with the same small finance team.