Agentic accounting startup recognized for exceptional culture of transparency, collaboration, and employee ownership

Maxima, the leading agentic AI platform for Enterprise accounting, today announced it has been named one of the 2026 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

"When we started Maxima, we knew we wanted to attract some of the best talent in the Bay Area, and we believe we've done exactly that," said Yogi Goel, Co-founder and CEO of Maxima. "We're a team driven by a larger mission to give accountants their time and sanity back. Accounting is one of the most important functions in any business, yet talented accounting professionals spend the majority of their time on manual preparation work that should never require so much attention in the first place. The people who join Maxima want to fix that. When you build a culture around a mission that genuinely matters, and lead with transparency, ownership, and empathy, people do the best work of their careers."

Maxima’s culture shows up in how the team operates day to day. From the start, Maxima has been intentional about hiring people who thrive in environments defined by ownership, rigor, and a genuine desire to raise the standard around them. They take personal ownership over outcomes, invest in making each other better through direct feedback and shared context, and approach every problem from first principles, building better solutions rather than accepting how things have always been done.

The Best Places to Work Award celebrates local employers that set the standard for exceptional workplace culture. The rankings are based on confidential surveys of employees that measure success in team dynamics, trust in leadership, communication, and more.

Founded in August 2024, Maxima is redefining modern accounting, with an agentic system of work that sits between transaction systems and the ERP, executing the high-volume, evidence-heavy preparation work that has historically consumed the majority of accounting hours. From journal entries and reconciliations to variance analysis and close orchestration, Maxima's platform has delivered up to 80% faster closes, 95% automation of manual work, and 100% auditability for customers including Rippling, Scale AI, Zendesk, and Bilt Rewards.

To learn more about career opportunities at Maxima, visit maxima.ai/careers

About Maxima

Maxima is the first agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting, purpose built for enterprise accounting teams to deliver SOX ready, real-time close without uprooting their ERPs. From journal entries to flux analysis, Maxima automates the most painful and error prone workflows across the entire record to report operations. Founded in 2024, the company has raised $41M in funding, is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Audacious Ventures, and was recently named by Redpoint as one of the top companies shaping the AI application layer in its inaugural AI64 list. Learn more at www.maxima.ai.

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