Ordway, a monetisation platform for innovative business models, has secured $20 million in growth capital. The funding round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with Western Alliance Bank's Innovation Banking Group participating through debt. The company plans to use the investment to double its research and development budget, focusing on advancing its artificial intelligence product roadmap. Ordway has doubled its recurring revenue over the past two years whilst remaining profitable. Recent AI-powered launches include MCP access for Claude, an advanced cash reconciliation feature, and a contract data abstraction tool. The company has also introduced Ordway Payments, an integrated platform designed to streamline payment processing and revenue reconciliation. The funding will support development of AI agents to automate time-consuming tasks such as updating financial records and creating AI-powered forecasting models for cash flow and revenue predictions.

Small business news releases. Ordway secures $20M in growth capital to accelerate AI roadmap. Billing and Revenue Automation Platform to Double R&D Investment to Help CFOs Automate Quote-to-Cash WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Ordway, the monetization platform for innovative business models, today announced that it has secured access to $20M in additional equity and debt funding to accelerate investments in AI product development and company growth. Ordway's latest funding round was led by Harbert Growth Partners with debt participation from Western Alliance Bank's Innovation Banking Group. Ordway's recurring revenue has doubled over the past two years, while the company has maintained profitability. More enterprise deals with more complexity - multiple legal entities, multiple general ledgers, and multiple financial reporting jurisdictions - are driving larger deals in new customer acquisition. Attach rates for new products are growing among existing accounts, as more customers adopt Ordway payments, quotes, self-service portal, and checkout offerings. In the past year, Ordway has introduced a number of new AI-powered offerings, including MCP access for Claude, a new AI-powered cash reconciliation feature that matches payments across banking channels to their corresponding invoices, and an AI contract data abstraction that reads subscription agreements and extracts the necessary details for billing and revenue recognition. Ordway is also expanding into payments with the launch of Ordway Payments, a unified platform designed to eliminate the manual work and data fragmentation involved in processing payments, matching them to invoices, and reconciling revenue. "We founded the company with a mission of automating the quote-to-cash process for high-growth companies, but there is still work to be done. The handoff from sales to finance remains one of the messiest parts of the business," said Sameer Gulati, CEO and founder of Ordway. "The sales team pops open a bottle of champagne every time a new deal is closed, but finance cries in their coffee because of all the complex gymnastics that will be needed to perform the accounting and billing." With the new capital, Ordway will double its R&D budget to accelerate the build-out of its AI product roadmap. Investments include AI agents that will automate time-consuming, routine tasks such as updating billing, accounting, and investor KPIs following contract modifications, renewals, and pauses. Ordway is also expanding its reporting suite to include AI-powered forecasting models for cash flows, customer churn, and revenue growth. "AI is driving rapid levels of change and complexity into pricing, monetization, and billing strategies for technology-centric companies," said Tom Roberts, General Partner at Harbert Growth Partners. "Ordway is extremely well positioned to help companies adapt to the new AI-centric paradigm in finance, and we are excited to invest and partner with them as they enter the next phase of growth." The investment positions Ordway to help finance teams manage a new generation of increasingly complex business models without adding more spreadsheets, manual processes, or operational overhead. As pricing and revenue models evolve, Ordway is building the intelligent financial infrastructure companies need to scale with greater speed, accuracy, and control. About Ordway Ordway is a billing and revenue management platform designed for today's innovative, technology-centric business models. Hundreds of AI, SaaS, cloud, and subscription businesses use Ordway to automate the quote-to-cash cycle with self-service checkout, subscription management, usage-based billing, revenue recognition, and investor reporting. To learn more visit www.ordwaylabs.com. About Harbert Management Corporation HMC is an alternative asset manager with approximately $7.8 billion in Regulatory Assets Under Management as of June 30, 2026. Founded in 1993, the firm is privately owned and serves a variety of institutional investors across multiple asset classes. Investment strategies include European and U.S. real estate, seniors housing, power, growth capital, and credit solutions. For additional information, visit www.harbert.net. About Western Alliance Bank Western Alliance Bancorporation is one of the country's top-performing banking companies and has been ranked as a top U.S. bank by American Banker and Bank Director since 2016. Its primary subsidiary, Western Alliance Bank, is a leading national bank for business that puts customers first, delivering tailored business banking solutions and consumer products backed by outstanding, personalized service and specific expertise in more than 30 industries and sectors. 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Ordway launches ai-powered payments to End manual reconciliation for modern finance teams. * 59 minutes ago WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 - Ordway, the finance platform for innovative business models, today announced the launch of Ordway Payments, a comprehensive payments solution designed to eliminate the costly and time-consuming reconciliation challenges that burden finance teams. Built as an extension of Ordway's order-to-revenue automation platform, Ordway Payments unifies billing and payments into a single, integrated application. For years, finance organizations have struggled with the disconnect between billing systems and third-party payment processors. Lump-sum payouts are difficult to reconcile against individual invoices. Wire transfers and check payments require manual cash application. Refunds and adjustments force teams into separate consoles and fragmented workflows. The result is significant operational inefficiency, with teams spending days or even weeks each month manually reconciling transactions. Ordway Payments directly addresses this "reconciliation mess" by automating the entire invoice-to-cash lifecycle. A True End-to-End Invoice-to-Cash Platform Ordway Payments brings together: * Credit card and ACH processing for recurring billing * Dispute resolution, refunds, and exception processing * AI-powered cash application for payments, including wires and checks At the core of the solution is AI-driven cash application technology that automatically matches incoming payments to outstanding invoices, regardless of source. The system is designed to handle complex real-world scenarios such as: * Lump-sum payments covering multiple invoices * Vague or incomplete transaction descriptors * Out-of-system payments that traditionally require manual intervention The platform continuously improves through a self-learning model, in which manual corrections train the AI to improve future matching accuracy. Built to Solve Customer Pain, Not Monetize Processing Fees While many payment providers focus primarily on monetizing interchange fees from processing transactions, Ordway's approach centers on solving operational pain points for finance teams. By bundling billing, payments, reconciliation, and cash application into a single unified system, Ordway removes friction from the financial close process and frees teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than on manual matching tasks. "Ordway Payments is a natural extension of our order-to-revenue automation journey," said Sameer Gulati, Founder and CEO of Ordway. "Our customers told us they didn't want another disconnected payment tool. They wanted a unified experience that eliminates reconciliation work entirely. That's exactly what we built." The launch of Ordway Payments reflects direct customer demand for a seamless billing and payments experience. As companies increasingly adopt usage-based pricing and more complex monetization models, the need for integrated financial infrastructure has never been greater. Ordway Payments positions finance teams to scale without adding operational overhead. About Ordway Ordway is a billing and revenue management platform designed for today's innovative, technology-centric business models, including AI, SaaS, cloud, marketplaces, and subscriptions. With Ordway, you can automate billing, revenue recognition, and investor reporting for recurring revenue models based on subscriptions or usage-based pricing. To learn more visit www.ordwaylabs.com