Arc Unveils CFO Agent, Strengthening Focus on Cash Management for Technology Companies Post-F2 Spin

CFO agent Archie fuses banking and AI – equipping finance teams with secure, domain-specific intelligence refined on billions of dollars in transaction data.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Arc Technologies Inc. ("Arc"), the leading cash management and capital markets platform for technology companies, today launched Archie, the first CFO agent built for founders, executives, and finance teams. Archie brings efficiency and clarity to finance teams – adding horsepower without the cost of added headcount. Available to Arc's cash management customers today, Archie delivers real-time financial analysis and insights powered by accounting, banking, and spend data. Additional capabilities, including automated monitoring and custom reporting, are in development through end of year, rounding out Arc's suite of CFO-grade AI features and moving the company closer to putting finance on autopilot.

By spinning out F2 AI Inc. ("F2"), its lender-facing AI business launched in late 2024, Arc has sharpened its focus on serving technology companies with a unified cash management and financing experience. The spin-out streamlines operations, accelerates product innovation, and strengthens Arc's financial position – and enables Arc to apply the same Arc Intelligence AI infrastructure already trusted by lending institutions to company-facing cash management. F2 is also backed by Arc's existing investors – including Left Lane Capital, NFX, and Y Combinator – underscoring alignment behind the separation and focus.

"Arc is doubling down on the companies we serve – technology companies from pre-seed to IPO that need smarter, faster ways to manage and scale their capital," said Nicholas Lombardo, Co-Founder & CEO of Arc. "AI is fundamentally reshaping the business finance experience. With Archie at the helm, companies now have the equivalent of dozens of financial analysts working in the background – scanning transactions, surfacing insights, and preparing custom reports and analyses, instantly and with precision."

A New Way to Manage Cash with Arc's CFO Agent

Business banking, even with neobanks, remains highly manual – finance teams must navigate unintuitive interfaces, set up manual alerts, and sift through unstructured financial data. As a result, insights often arrive late, if at all, leaving teams to react rather than act strategically.

General-purpose LLMs, meanwhile, lack secure access to sensitive transaction data and have no built-in context on company financials. Banks aren't AI-native, and AI tools don't have banking-grade trust, financial data, or domain-specific workflows – leaving a gap.

Archie closes that gap with an agentic system capable of ingesting unstructured data, performing complex financial calculations with clear methodology and sources, and generating insights, tables, and charts – all built directly into a company's financial stack. By combining robust AI automation with contextual financial data in a secure platform, Archie delivers both strategy and execution for finance organizations.

Archie is built around three core capabilities:

• Real-Time Financial Analysis – Turn raw transaction data into FP&A insights: growth trends, expense drivers, scenario planning, and more.
• Proactive Monitoring & Alerts – Identify financial risks and patterns with anomaly detection and alerts, including burn-rate deviations, accounts receivable & payable slippage, and covenant-compliance risks.
• Custom Reports – Generate dashboards and customized reports for internal decision-making, investor updates, and credit applications – scheduled or on-demand.

"Founders need more AI leverage, not more headcount," said James Currier, General Partner at NFX. "Archie puts CFO-grade capability into Arc's cash management platform – turning finance from manual and slow to confident and fast, without adding headcount."

"Archie gives us answers in seconds, which we used to wait hours for – runway, spend variances, growth bridges – all in the same place where we manage our cash," said Dominic Mirabile, Co-Founder & CEO of ReadyOn. "It's the first time AI has felt native to our finance workflows."

Arc's Foundation in AI for Finance

Over the past two years, Arc has optimized its AI infrastructure, Arc Intelligence, for the finance vertical by leveraging deep industry expertise, developing scalable evaluations on proprietary datasets, and building infrastructure capable of handling the most complex and frequent financial tasks.

This foundation was first proven through Arc's Capital Markets business, where Arc Intelligence helps review thousands of companies and process billions of dollars in transaction volume across private credit. That same core AI technology now directly powers Arc's company-facing cash management workflows through Archie.

"Arc is uniquely positioned because we've built AI on top of real financial infrastructure, not in isolation," said Lombardo. "After two years of development, Arc Intelligence has already transformed how institutional investors operate. Now we're bringing that same technology to companies – helping finance teams move with the speed, accuracy, and intelligence of the world's most advanced institutions."

Today, Arc serves thousands of technology companies, delivering cash management and financing solutions through one secure platform. By embedding Archie into everyday financial operations, Arc turns finance from manual and reactive to automated and predictive – driving faster decisions, tighter controls, and better outcomes.

About Arc

Arc is the cash management and capital markets platform for technology companies. Arc helps businesses manage cash, unlock competitive yield, raise debt capital, and access AI-powered financial services – all in one unified platform. Founded in 2021, Arc has headquarters in San Francisco and New York City and has raised over $180 million of equity and debt capital from investors including Left Lane Capital, NFX, Bain Capital Ventures, Atalaya, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Torch Capital, and Y Combinator. To learn more, visit www.joinarc.com.

About F2

F2 is the AI platform for private markets investors. Purpose-built for private credit, commercial banks & institutional finance, F2 accelerates diligence, underwriting, and portfolio monitoring, helping teams evaluate deals over 60% faster. Already trusted across thousands of deals, F2 makes collaboration easy and retains historical context, so past work compounds into future wins. Headquartered in New York City, F2 is backed by leading investors including NFX, Left Lane Capital, and Y Combinator. To learn more, visit f2.ai.

Arc is a financial technology company, not a bank. For important information about Arc, see our general disclosures.

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