AppZen, Inc.
Agentic AI agents for accounts payable and expense management automation
- Sector
- Software
- Headquarters
- SAN JOSE, CA
- Founded
- 2012
- Latest Form D
- $50M, Sep 2019
- Total capital
- $102M
- Federal grants
- None on recordNo awards found in SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF or DoD records.
- Private capital raised
- $102M
- 5 Form D · last Sep 2019
- 86 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- 5
- first 2021
- Rank in peer group#58 of 831
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 5th filing$50M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 4th filing$35M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$12.7M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$1.6M
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$2.9M
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Standing among 831 peers
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- Granted patents#58 · top 7%
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Founders and team
Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants- Kunal VermaResearcherExecutive Officer, DirectorLinked by 1 patent
- Alex BardDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Anant KaleExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Arif JanmohamedDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Matt ZelenExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Naresh BansalExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
USPTO · 5 granted of 5- GrantedApparatus And Method For Automatically Assigning General Ledger Codes To An Accounts Payable InvoiceUSPTOUS 12,632,885
- GrantedApparatus And Method For Automatically Matching Purchase Order Line-items With Accounts Payable Invoice Line-itemsUSPTOUS 12,469,058
- GrantedMethods And Systems For Automatically Detecting Fraud And Compliance Issues In Expense Reports And InvoicesUSPTOUS 11,954,739
Show all 5 patent records
- Apparatus And Method For Automatically Assigning General Ledger Codes To An Accounts Payable InvoiceMay 19, 2026 · US 12,632,885Granted
- Apparatus And Method For Automatically Matching Purchase Order Line-items With Accounts Payable Invoice Line-itemsNov 11, 2025 · US 12,469,058Granted
- Methods And Systems For Automatically Detecting Fraud And Compliance Issues In Expense Reports And InvoicesApr 9, 2024 · US 11,954,739Granted
- Apparatus And Method For Processing Digital Invoices With Invoice Entity Feedback Override Of Trained Machine Learning ModelsApr 9, 2024 · US 11,954,440Granted
- Apparatus And Method For Matching Line Item Textual Entries With Individual Image Objects From A File With Multiple Image ObjectsSep 21, 2021 · US 11,126,838Granted
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
SEC Form D filings through . SBIR and STTR awards through .