After his company exited, he served as an entrepreneur-in-resident at Washington University in St. Louis. He worked with small businesses and saw that other founders had the same issues with accounting software. He teamed up with Ashtyn Bell — who was working in AI research at venture capital firm at the time and previously led product at Candy Digital — to launch Open Ledger.
The company offers accounting features in the form of embeddable components, APIs, and a ledger database, which allows AI-driven categorization, reconciliation, and financial reporting, Yebesi said. “Open Ledger aggregates and orchestrates every data source for companies, then allows AI to execute accounting functions with full financial context.”