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# Valuation Due Diligence Expert at Nace AI

- **Company:** Nace AI
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai/7a792764-5b34-434d-ae93-b72cb66f2bb9

## Job description

## Role Overview

We are looking for a Financial & Valuation Specialist to independently review, challenge, and validate [Nace.ai](http://Nace.ai)’s financial models and AI-driven investment workflows. Your role will be to critically assess underlying assumptions across a wide spectrum of financial activities. You will test model logic, verify compliance with respective standards and regulations, and ensure that outputs reflect real-world institutional practices. You will play a key part in guaranteeing the reliability, defensibility, and analytical rigor of our platform's methodologies.The candidate will also be involved in Model Training, Performance and Accuracy optimization, Dataset curation, and Product testing. Key Responsibilities:

- Design and execute testing scenarios across a wide spectrum of financial workflows, including M&A, Financial Due Diligence (FDD), market analysis, stock screening, and complex business valuations.
- Critically assess the AI agent's reasoning chains to ensure it correctly interprets financial data, applies appropriate market approaches, and avoids "hallucinating" financial metrics or calculations.
- Validate whether the AI's outputs and current models align with accepted financial frameworks (IVS, IFRS/US GAAP fair value guidance) and real-world market practice.
- Provide clear, actionable recommendations on how to adjust assumptions, improve methodologies, or correct model mechanics.
- Explain why certain valuation or analytical approaches may be inappropriate and highlight potential financial or methodological risks.
- Translate complex financial mechanics and investment logic into actionable product requirements and rulesets for the Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
- Participate in discussions and contribute expert insights when designing new finance- and valuation-related features.

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of professional experience in corporate finance, valuation, investment banking, transaction advisory, or audit advisory roles.
- Strong expertise in business valuation, financial modeling, market analysis, and the broader transaction lifecycle.
- Proven experience reviewing or building complex financial models (DCF, market approach, transaction multiples, LBOs, option pricing models).
- Ability to identify modeling errors or AI logic flaws and communicate them clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills, structured thinking, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex financial concepts in a simple, practical way.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with automated valuation tools or AI-driven financial modeling solutions.
- Experience in SaaS, fintech, or technology-driven product environments.
- Exposure to multi-jurisdictional valuation practices or cross-border transactions.
- Professional certifications (e.g., CFA, CPA, ASA, CBV).
- Experience reviewing financials for audits, M&A transactions, financial reporting, or litigation support.

## About Nace AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nace AI builds long-horizon reasoning models and AI agents that audit, reconcile, and report on financial and compliance data for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed / Series A – $21.5M raised in 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Zhanibek Datbayev (CTO/Co-Founder), Ritesh Shrivastava (Co-Founder), Sudha Valluru (COO/Co-Founder), Swathi B (Co-Founder), and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Audit, Compliance, Finance, Accounting, Enterprise AI
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise – specifically audit firms, finance departments, compliance teams, and professional services firms
- **Mission**: Build long-horizon AI that runs organizations; give professionals their time back by automating high-stakes knowledge work

## Products & Services
- **Metamodel**: A specialized small language model (SLM) platform that enterprises can customize with their own policies and knowledge. Used for audit, contract governance, and financial reporting.
- **Agentic Accounting**: AI agent that executes end-to-end financial audits, billing audits, and revenue leakage detection by connecting directly to databases.
- **Nace Verification Intelligence**: Evidence-based reasoning engine that processes up to 1 million files (PDFs, spreadsheets, databases) to automate SOX 404 reports, contract compliance checks, and due diligence.
- **Nace Process Automation**: Automatically maps transaction flows across 10+ disparate databases to visualize and reconcile processes.
- **The Macros**: A research preview product that lets power users create custom AI macros for repetitive professional tasks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $21.5M (May 2026 round led by Walden Catalyst Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES); earlier $5M seed round (April 2025) led by General Catalyst.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Walden Catalyst Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, AICONIC VENTURES
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Launched from stealth in March 2025 with Metamodel 1
  - Raised $21.5M within 14 months of founding
  - Operations in 7 countries (US, Kazakhstan, India, Canada, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia)
  - 2,574 LinkedIn followers (+141% YoY)
  - Active job postings for senior roles (Product Manager, Audit Consultant, Growth Lead)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Metamodel approach**: Enterprises can turn internal policies and employee knowledge into custom, on‑premise AI models, enforcing consistency and accuracy.
- **Evidence‑based reasoning**: The system explains exactly where it looked and why – building trust in regulated environments (SOC 2 Type II, AICPA audited infrastructure).
- **Small model efficiency**: Uses specialized small language models (SLMs) instead of massive general LLMs, making deployments faster, cheaper, and compliant with data sovereignty requirements.
- **End‑to‑end automation**: Covers the entire audit workflow – from raw database ingestion to boardroom‑ready reports – without any manual spreadsheet work.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Metamodel platform**: Turn enterprise policies into custom AI agents for every department.
- **Expand into adjacent compliance verticals** (tax, due diligence, contract governance).
- **Grow the team** across engineering, product, and go‑to‑market roles (currently 39–50 employees, with a heavy technical tilt of ~45%).
- **Maintain on‑premises / hybrid cloud deployments** to meet strict regulatory requirements of audit and finance clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑paced research‑first environment assembling a “world‑class team” to solve high‑stakes scaling challenges in AI reasoning.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (Palo Alto offices); many roles are in‑office for close collaboration on complex ML and product work.
- **Team composition**: Heavy technical concentration (45% of staff are engineers/researchers), with deep domain expertise from ex‑Dropbox, Bloomberg, McKinsey, and AI labs.
- **Impact**: Build infrastructure that gives audit, compliance, and finance professionals their time back – directly reduces manual drudgery in multi‑billion‑dollar compliance markets.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company emphasizes “autonomy, impact, and working on the hardest AI problems in enterprise.”

## Sources
1. [nace.ai](https://nace.ai/)
2. [nace.ai/careers](https://nace.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn – Nace AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nace-ai)
4. [Built In – Nace.AI](https://builtin.com/company/nace-ai)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – Nace AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nace.ai)

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