The news
Stuut order-to-cash automation news: Stuut Inc., which builds AI agents for the steps between a customer order and cash in the bank, raised a $52.5 million Series B led by Insight Partners, SiliconANGLE reported on October 7, 2026. Andreessen Horowitz and Microsoft's venture fund M12 also participated.
Order-to-cash covers order management, invoicing, credit checks, collections, applying incoming cash to the right invoices, payments and disputes. According to SiliconANGLE, Stuut's platform handles all of these and connects to a company's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems and payment gateways. ValueAdd VC reported that the agents follow up with customers by text, email and phone and log into customer payment portals.
Stuut gave several performance figures, as reported by SiliconANGLE. It says it matches more than 95% of incoming payments automatically, handles 81% or more of outbound collections without human help, and cuts days sales outstanding (DSO), the average time to collect after a sale, by 47% on average. It cited ZoomInfo cutting DSO from 51 to 40 days. These are company claims.
The company says it serves more than 150 large enterprises, including Verifone and ZoomInfo, and that its customer base grew five times over the past year while it processed $3 billion in payments, SiliconANGLE reported.
Stuut was founded in 2024 by CEO Tarek Alaruri, a former chief operating officer of procurement software company Fairmarkit, along with Ben Winter and Miraj Mohsin, according to ValueAdd VC. Its previous round was a $29.5 million Series A in November 2025. Reported totals differ: SiliconANGLE put total funding at $93 million, while ValueAdd VC put it at about $88 million.
The numbers
- Series B
- $52.5 million
- Payments matched automatically (company)
- More than 95%
- Collections without human help (company)
- 81% or more
- Average DSO reduction (company)
- 47%
- Enterprise customers (company)
- More than 150
- Payments processed in past year (company)
- $3 billion
Why CEOs should care
For CFOs, receivables is cash that has been earned but not collected. Cutting days sales outstanding frees working capital without new borrowing. If Stuut's reported results hold even partly, a company with large receivables could release meaningful cash, which is why collections is one of the first finance functions where AI agents are being sold.
Controllers and finance operations leaders should test vendors on their own data: how many payments match without manual review, how disputes get escalated, and how agent outreach is logged for audit. Ask what happens when an agent contacts a customer by phone or text, who approves the scripts, and how the tone fits key accounts. Sales leaders will want a say, because collections calls reach their customers.
CISOs and IT teams should review the access these agents need. Logging into customer payment portals and connecting to ERP and payment systems means credentials and permissions that must be scoped, monitored and revoked when needed.
The bigger picture
SiliconANGLE cited an estimate that order-to-cash failures cost companies up to 5% of annual revenue. Stuut is one of several funded startups chasing that problem: ValueAdd VC counted at least five competitors in AI collections, including Fazeshift, Lunos, Round and Procuros. Andreessen Horowitz backing both of Stuut's last two rounds suggests investors see receivables as a category, not a single product.
What’s next
Watch for independent customer results, deeper integrations with major ERP vendors, and whether those ERP vendors build similar agents themselves, which would put pressure on standalone startups.
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