FinanceGPT is a generative AI startup constructed to assist corporations of their monetary evaluation duties. Initially constructed for startups with out in-house finance groups, and VCs trying to run monetary well being checks for his or her portfolios in Africa, FinanceGPT (Ipoxcap) says it has during the last two years grown to draw a various vary of clientele together with funding managers and finance officers out to fast-track their fiscal reporting.
FinanceGPT, which is a part of the 2023 Startup Battlefield 200 cohort, leverages its proprietary AI fashions and GPT-4 to, amongst different capabilities, generate monetary ratios that present the general state of a enterprise, make predictions on future efficiency and forecast valuations, based mostly on the uploaded accounting knowledge.
“It generates a shareable monetary analytics dashboard and text-based reviews relying on the corporate’s knowledge and person requests,” stated CEO Phiwa Nkambule, who co-founded the startup with Sibo Mkhonta (CFO) in 2020.
“We began by serving to startups manage their funds for investor readiness, however now we have seen a requirement from portfolio managers, retail merchants and firm finance groups, who use it to run their funding enterprise or handle their portfolios,” stated Nkambule.
He added that whereas the startup has attracted shoppers from across the globe, its primary focus stays Africa. It’s at the moment engaged on FinanceGPT Patches, entailing three lean language fashions to seal the monetary data gaps and biases of enormous language modes (LLMs) like GPT-4 on rising markets. As an example, the FinanceGPT-SSA mannequin is designed to be proficient in native African languages, and is claimed to make sure correct monetary insights on sub-Saharan Africa markets. Related fashions are being constructed for the Center East and North Africa, in addition to Asia-Pacific.
“They’re small language fashions that can work hand in hand with different foundational fashions to fill the hole that’s left by massive language fashions in the case of creating international locations. We all know that the macro-economic dynamics are very distinctive and completely different in these areas and we wish to be certain that that is effectively captured,” he stated.
FinanceGPT can also be engaged on a monetary voice assistant that will probably be competent in some African languages to ship monetary advisory providers. The voice assistant will probably be accessible by its personal digital channels, and accomplice monetary establishments attempting to succeed in clients in rural areas.
The startup has been a member of Nvidia Inception since October 2022, and is leveraging its expertise.
“Nvidia expertise helps empower startups to allow them to unlock new generative AI functions for a wide range of industries. FinanceGPT is using Nvidia GPUs and NeMo SDK as a basis for a particular resolution that makes use of generative AI to assist deal with restricted accessibility and prices related to monetary recommendation and guide providers,” stated an Nvidia spokesperson.