LiveFlow

LiveFlow is a financial reporting automation platform that connects live accounting data from QuickBooks, Xero, and Stripe to Google Sheets and Excel — enabling finance teams to build automated, always-current financial reports and dashboards without manual data exports, copy-paste workflows, or expensive BI tool implementation. Founded in 2021 in Redwood City, California and a Y Combinator W21 graduate, LiveFlow raised $23.23 million total including a $13.5 million Series A in September 2024 led by Valar Ventures, serving customers including Y Combinator for department budgeting automation.\n\nLiveFlow's product works by creating live data connections between accounting sources and spreadsheets — when the accounting data updates in QuickBooks, the connected Google Sheet automatically reflects the latest numbers without any manual intervention. Finance teams can build P&L statements, cash flow reports, client-facing management packs, and department budget trackers in the familiar spreadsheet interface while getting the live data refresh that previously required exporting and importing data manually. The platform supports multi-entity consolidation for groups with multiple legal entities.\n\nIn 2025, LiveFlow competes in the financial reporting and FP&A automation market with Mosaic (FP&A platform), Jirav, Cube, and Finmark for finance team reporting automation, and with Klipfolio and Geckoboard for data visualization connected to accounting sources. The market for tools that bring live accounting data into spreadsheets has grown as finance teams at growing companies (10-200 employees) need more than basic accounting reports but aren't yet ready to invest in full FP&A platforms. Valar Ventures' backing (Peter Thiel's fund) provides strong fintech sector credibility. The 2025 strategy focuses on growing the multi-entity consolidation use case (highly valuable for portfolio companies, franchises, and multi-location businesses), deepening integrations with more accounting and revenue sources, and adding AI-powered analysis and commentary generation on financial data.