Numero, a US-based AI finance software company, acquired Royu, a Chennai startup that builds AI agents for accounting work, in a cash-and-stock deal. The acquisition was announced in a press release on May 13, 2026, and reported by Inc42 on May 14. The companies did not disclose the price.
Royu cofounder Viswajith Vishwaa told Inc42 that it was a double-digit million-dollar deal, and said that was a high figure by global standards for a company less than a year old. No exact number was published.
Vishwaa became Numero's cofounder and chief product officer, and his Royu cofounder Sathya Gunasekaran became chief technology officer. The rest of the Royu team also joined Numero.
What Royu built
Royu was founded in 2025. It builds AI agents that take over routine finance tasks: bookkeeping, invoice processing, reconciliations, month-end close and financial reviews.
According to the press release, Gunasekaran previously built large-scale platforms at Meta and Google. Royu did not report outside funding or name investors before the sale, and its headcount was not disclosed.
“Together with Royu, we are accelerating our vision of building an agentic system of work for the Office of the CFO.”
Why Numero is buying
Numero sells an agentic platform for finance departments that covers accounting operations, close, reconciliation, reporting and order-to-cash, and it lists SEC filings and technical accounting among its workflows. It connects to ERP systems, cloud drives and collaboration tools and keeps people in the loop to review the AI's work. Inc42 reported that its clients are mainly mid-market and enterprise companies in the US, including Medallia, Doximity and Intact, and that accounting advisory firms Connor Group and Uniqus are partners.
Karthik Ramamoorthy, Numero's co-founder and chief executive, said the deal speeds up the company's plan to build an agentic system of work for the office of the chief financial officer. Vishwaa said finance teams want more than productivity tools.
The combined company wants to be an AI worker layer for the CFO's office. Inc42 reported that its longer-term plans include AI workers for order-to-cash, revenue management, financial planning and month-end close. Most of Numero's engineering and product staff are in India.
Ramamoorthy said the acquisition was more than a matter of combining two teams, and that finance departments were under pressure to do more with smaller staffs. Gunasekaran said enterprise finance work needs systems that scale, run reliably and fit into the tools companies already use. Numero said teams interested in its platform can request access through its website.
The founders and the terms
Inc42 reported the deal as a mix of cash and stock, and Numero's release described it the same way while keeping the value undisclosed. Entrepreneur India also reported that financial details were not disclosed.
Vishwaa told Inc42 that Numero's approach is applied AI rather than AI research, and argued that older finance software vendors would struggle to compete because AI-native companies can build products quickly. Numero's own funding and investors were not reported in the coverage of the deal.
A busy market for AI finance tools
Inc42 placed the deal among a series of Indian startups building AI tools for finance teams. OpenCFO raised $2 million in seed funding in March, led by Endiya Partners, and Mysa raised $3.4 million in a pre-Series A round in January, co-led by Blume Ventures and Piper Serica.
For Numero, the purchase adds a product and engineering team in Chennai that had already built agents for the same accounting tasks its platform targets. For Royu's founders, it was an exit within its first year of operation.
Inc42 cited a projection that enterprise AI will be a $71 billion opportunity by 2030. Numero and Royu are betting that a large share of that spending will go to agents that do specific jobs inside finance departments, such as closing the books each month, rather than to general-purpose AI assistants.
The press release named the cofounders by first name, Viswajith and Sathya. Inc42 referred to the second cofounder as Sathyanarayanan and also as Sathya Gunasekaran.
