Alguna is a platform backed by Y Combinator that transforms the processes of pricing, quoting, and billing, specifically for AI, SaaS, and fintech companies. Recently, Alguna announced the closing of a $4 million seed funding round, which was led by prominent venture firms Mango Capital and Atlantic Labs, with additional participation from various successful startup founders and operators who share an interest in streamlining financial processes within B2B organizations.
With its public launch, Alguna aims to tackle the pervasive issue of fragmented point tools and spreadsheets that many businesses rely on for their operations. Historically, these disjointed systems have resulted in significant revenue leakage—estimated in the millions—each year for B2B companies. Revenue leakage refers to money that is earned but not accurately billed, collected, or recognized, resulting in financial discrepancies that can hinder a company’s growth.
Founders Aleks Đekić and Jamie Macleod bring extensive experience in the fintech industry to Alguna. Having spent their careers in this field, they have firsthand knowledge of the difficulties that arise when profit margins are affected by inefficient financial processes. They understand that revenue leakage often accumulates due to small, yet impactful oversights—such as unbilled overages, reliance on outdated price lists, manual proration errors, or billable usage data that fails to translate accurately onto invoices.
The challenge of managing these financial processes has become increasingly complex, exacerbated by the advancements in AI technologies. Adding another point tool to fix existing billing challenges can often lead to even more complications, creating inconsistencies whenever businesses change pricing plans, implement new credits, co-term renewals, or incorporate multiple currencies.
Alguna’s approach centralizes monetization logic for companies, ensuring that every change is automatically reflected across the entire billing and invoicing process. This means that quotes will consistently match invoices, invoices will align with cash flow, and overall revenue will accurately reflect the business’s reality.
The platform offers a range of features designed to address the unique needs of modern B2B companies, including a comprehensive configuration for pricing and quoting that allows sales teams to generate accurate, streamlined quotes with minimal risk of error.
Additionally, Alguna supports a variety of billable metrics, including tokens, API calls, and usage in minutes, ensuring accurate pricing and billing while effectively handling credits and overages. The automation of billing and collections provides accurate and consolidated invoices that encompass subscriptions, usage, and one-off charges, complete with built-in mechanisms for retrying payments and managing overdue accounts.
Alguna’s system aligns with industry standards for revenue recognition, such as ASC 606 and IFRS, offering ready-to-use schedules that cater to multi-entity and multi-currency operations. This feature simplifies the financial reporting process for businesses operating on a global scale. The platform also enables companies to easily transition between pricing structures, shifting from seat-based models to usage-based systems, credit-based models, or hybrid models without requiring engineering involvement. This flexibility enables businesses to adjust their pricing strategies promptly in response to market fluctuations.
By utilizing Alguna, teams can expedite the testing and implementation of new pricing models while ensuring that their profit margins remain intact and their competitive edge sharp. The platform eliminates the need to patch together various point tools and spreadsheets, integrating contracts, billing, and revenue automation into a cohesive solution. This empowers companies to navigate the evolving revenue landscape of the AI era while consistently delivering value to their customers.
KEY QUOTES:
“Pricing for AI is getting rewritten every 90 days. Legacy tech stacks can’t adapt fast enough. Alguna exists to give companies the flexibility to monetize based on what the market demands—usage, credits, value, outcomes, or entirely new models—in minutes, not months.”
Aleks Đekić, Alguna’s CEO and co-founder
“AI multiplied how often companies change pricing—and it multiplied leakage, too. Most stacks weren’t built for weekly plan tweaks, credit wallets, or outcome-based pricing. When margins move from ~80% to 30–60%, every mismatch between quote, invoice, cash, and revenue recognition matters. Alguna gives finance, sales, and product one source of truth so you can launch pricing changes in minutes and trust the numbers end-to-end.”
Aleks Đekić, Alguna’s CEO and co-founder
