Platform for the North American Supply Chain Business Health and Risk Management
The Challenge
FreshBooks is on a mission to help small business owners grow and thrive. As a provider of online accounting software for business owners and accountants, FreshBooks easy-to-use accounting platform provides payment facilitation for SMBs. This project will focus on risk management by developing machine learning and AI models for better financial resilience. The academic partner, McMaster University, led by Elkafi Hassini from the DeGroote School of Business, will work on improving SMBs supply chain resilience by developing AI tools to provide advanced capabilities such as cognitive automation, payment risk management and adaptive decision-making.
The challenge
FreshBooks is on a mission to help small business owners grow and thrive. As a provider of online accounting software for business owners and accountants, FreshBooks easy-to-use accounting platform provides payment facilitation for SMBs. This project will focus on risk management by developing machine learning and AI models for better financial resilience. The academic partner, McMaster University, led by Elkafi Hassini from the DeGroote School of Business, will work on improving SMBs supply chain resilience by developing AI tools to provide advanced capabilities such as cognitive automation, payment risk management and adaptive decision-making.
Investment
$
1.2
M
Scale AI investment
$
2.9
M
Total investment
Partners
