Outsourced accounting and finance for growing companies
Graphite Financial. Control the numbers. Control the business.
Hundreds of leadership teams trust Graphite Financial to get their fundamentals right.
Trusted by Hundreds of Companies
Founders and venture-backed teams turn to Graphite when growth requires financials they can trust. Here are a few of the companies we’ve helped support along the way.
Clean books, coherent data, and confident decisions. Built for founders who demand clarity.
Graphite supports growing startups across five core functions. Choose what you need, when you need it, and get it all delivered as a coordinated system, not disconnected parts.
Accounting
What you need:
Clear ownership of your accounting foundation. Clean books. Reporting that actually makes sense.
When you need it:
You’re past DIY spreadsheets and monthly surprises, and your accounting challenges have outpaced your current solution.
What Graphite solves for:
Inconsistent or inaccurate reporting, delayed closes, and uncertainty about where the business really stands.
Finance
What you need:
Reliable financial data and financial forecasting for startups to support real decisions.
When you need it:
Cash runway, hiring plans, or growth investments require clear tradeoffs and defensible assumptions.
What Graphite solves for:
Unclear forecasts, fragile models, and decisions made without financial context.
Tax
What you need:
Filing and tax strategy that reduce risk without cutting corners.
When you need it:
Growth is introducing new tax complexity, and keeping up is becoming harder than it should be.
What Graphite solves for:
Last-minute fire drills, missed obligations, and unpleasant surprises.
Payroll
What you need:
Reliable payroll services for startups that work, even when things aren’t standard.
When you need it:
Headcount grows, compliance expectations rise, and commissions or bonuses aren’t executing consistently.
What Graphite solves for:
Errors, delays, and avoidable employee friction.
Human Resources
What you need:
The ability to build and manage your team without an internal HR department.
When you need it:
Headcount is increasing faster than your policies can keep pace.
What Graphite solves for:
Inconsistency, risk exposure, and people-related distractions.
Accounting
What you need:
Clear ownership of your accounting foundation. Clean books. Reporting that actually makes sense.
When you need it:
You’re past DIY spreadsheets and monthly surprises, and your accounting challenges have outpaced your current solution.
What Graphite solves for:
Inconsistent or inaccurate reporting, delayed closes, and uncertainty about where the business really stands.
Finance
What you need:
Reliable financial data and financial forecasting for startups to support real decisions.
When you need it:
Cash runway, hiring plans, or growth investments require clear tradeoffs and defensible assumptions.
What Graphite solves for:
Unclear forecasts, fragile models, and decisions made without financial context.
Tax
What you need:
Filing and tax strategy that reduce risk without cutting corners.
When you need it:
Growth is introducing new tax complexity, and keeping up is becoming harder than it should be.
What Graphite solves for:
Last-minute fire drills, missed obligations, and unpleasant surprises.
Payroll
What you need:
Reliable payroll services for startups that work, even when things aren’t standard.
When you need it:
Headcount grows, compliance expectations rise, and commissions or bonuses aren’t executing consistently.
What Graphite solves for:
Errors, delays, and avoidable employee friction.
Human Resources
What you need:
The ability to build and manage your team without an internal HR department.
When you need it:
Headcount is increasing faster than your policies can keep pace.
What Graphite solves for:
Inconsistency, risk exposure, and people-related distractions.
Build your vision, not a spreadsheet.
Growing startups lose momentum when founders and core teams get pulled into financial and operational cleanup. Graphite removes that drag through outsourced accounting and finance support, so leadership stays focused on strategy, execution, and growth, backed by accurate, readily available numbers they can trust.
Protect momentum by eliminating preventable mistakes.
Tax errors, compliance gaps, uneven employment practices, and cash flow missteps cost money and steal time and attention when you can least afford it. Graphite’s execution reduces friction and error before they slow you down—across accounting, payroll, and people operations—keeping teams moving forward instead of cleaning up avoidable problems.
Walk into every board meeting prepared.
Boards reward clarity and results, not effort. When questions come fast, hesitation erodes confidence. Graphite ensures your numbers are accurate, timely, and defensible. From close to reporting to financial forecasting for startups, you show up prepared, credible, and in control of the conversation. Every board meeting will be your best one ever.
Graphite works inside your company.
Not at arm’s length.
Graphite becomes part of your internal team, with the context and accountability that real decisions require. That means fewer handoffs, faster answers, and support grounded in how your startup actually operates. And because we scale with you, your accounting, finance, payroll, and HR support never outpace our ability to deliver.
I feel like I’ve got a resident expert from the SaaS world advising us. Graphite’s team always had a great expert response because this was probably the hundredth time they were dealing with any particular scenario.
ANDRES FABRIS
CEO, Traxo
Having a partner like Graphite, where you don’t have to think about the back-end accounting and can trust that it’s being done well and correctly, is really important for any early-stage startup.
JORDAN NATHAN
CEO, CARAWAY
The Graphite team really feels like a part of our own team. They provide strategic insights, unmatched responsiveness, and the level of service we’d expect from an in-house finance team, all while remaining cost-effective.
KELSEY POWELL
SENIOR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS, VITAL
Frequently Asked Questions
Have a question you don't see answered here? Shoot us an email!
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What if I don't need all these services?
Graphite Financial provides only the services you need, and delivers them as an integrated whole. As you grow, we can scale the services you already have, or add new ones as your needs evolve.
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Our books are a mess, can you help?
You're not alone. Many companies—especially startups—suffer from incomplete, inaccurate, or indecipherable books. Graphite works with you to get everything back on track, no matter what kind of disaster you're working with.
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Can you help us interpret our financial data?
Absolutely. Graphite's experts understand how to work with data to surface actionable insights, discover new efficiencies, and build reliable projections.
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What if my company isn't really a startup anymore?
Graphite Financial is happy to assist established companies as well as early-stage startups. Reach out to our account executives to find out if we're right for you.
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Do you specialize in certain industries?
While Graphite is capable of helping nearly any business, we have extensive expertise in SaaS, CPG, Biotech, Fintech, Healthtech, AI, and eCommerce.
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