Calm finance software
for operator-founders
who hate spreadsheets.
Northbeam is a runway, cashflow, and hiring-plan tool for post-seed, pre-Series B startups. No onboarding call. No "request a demo." Connect your bank and your payroll, and in four minutes you get a board-ready model you can trust.
Beta teams we work with closely
Four things your
current stack gets wrong.
Your runway is live, not weekly
We pull your bank balance, payroll, and AR every six hours. The runway number on your dashboard is the runway number. No spreadsheet closes Friday.
Hiring plans that model reality
Drag a person onto the plan. Pick a start date and a role band. We calculate the burn, the runway delta, and the earliest safe hire date — across any scenario.
Board decks write themselves
One-click export to a board-ready PDF: runway, burn multiple, revenue cohorts, net retention, hiring plan. Every chart live, every footnote sourced.
Scenario branches, not "what-ifs"
Draft a scenario (new $4M raise at 12m, 18% cost cut, delayed enterprise deal) as a branch. Present both to your board. Merge the one you pick.
Four minutes from
signup to signal.
Connect
Plaid for banks, Gusto/Rippling/Deel for payroll, Stripe/QBO for revenue. Read-only tokens only. We can't move your money.
Map
We auto-map 92% of transactions to burn categories. You review and lock the rest in under two minutes.
Plan
Pick a growth scenario or paste your last model. We'll back-test against your actuals so you see where your assumptions are off.
Share
Invite your co-founder, your finance lead, and your lead VC. Each gets the live dashboard with audit-logged comments.
Built by two operators,
not two ex-bankers.
Nat Okafor was VP Finance at Clearpath (Series C, 160 FTEs, $340M exit). Yusra Bellini built the internal finance tooling at Linear from pre-product to $60M ARR. Between them, 18 years of running real finance at real startups — and zero patience for software that was built for pre-IPO, not pre-Series-B.
We are rolling out Northbeam to 14 new teams a week. Every account is set up personally. Every support ticket is read by one of us. This will not scale forever, and we're comfortable with that.
Ex VP Finance, Clearpath
Ex Eng Lead, Finance Platform, Linear
"We closed our Series B last month with Northbeam as our source of truth. Sequoia asked for the export, not a rebuilt deck. Saved us two weeks."
— Theo Pascal · CEO · Hydra Labs"I stopped maintaining the model spreadsheet 4 months ago. Haven't missed it once. Our runway number is finally the same in every room."
— Amaya Singh · CFO · Forge.devWhat people ask us.
When will I get access?
We invite 14 new teams a week, roughly in the order of joining. Expect 4–10 weeks from signup to invite. If you're Series-A-or-later and ready to replace a full finance stack, write to nat@northbeam.co — we front-load that cohort.
How much does it cost?
$540/mo flat for up to 50 FTEs, $980/mo up to 200. No seats-based pricing. No per-integration charges. Beta pricing is locked for life if you join before GA.
Is my banking data safe?
Read-only Plaid tokens only. SOC 2 Type II (Oct 2025). All data encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). We host on AWS us-east-1, with optional eu-west-1 for EU companies.
Do you replace QuickBooks?
No. Northbeam sits alongside your accounting system. We read from it; your bookkeeper still owns the books. The two systems agree to the penny because we reconcile nightly.
Who's not a good fit?
Pre-seed teams (you don't need us yet) and any company over 300 FTEs (use Pigment or Anaplan). Also agencies and consultancies — our revenue model doesn't suit services businesses.
A steady finance stack,
when you're ready.
847 teams. 14 seats a week. Quiet software. Join the list — we'll be in your inbox sooner than you think.
No sales call. No credit card. One email when you're in.