Why Tyms Partnered with Seedstars to Bring AI Accounting to Emerging Market Entrepreneurs

Most small business owners we talk to didn't start their business to become accountants. They started it to sell, to build, to serve customers. But almost every door that matters for growth, a loan, an investor, a grant, or a government contract asks for financial statements they've never learned to produce. This isn't a training gap. It's an access gap.

Why Seedstars? Seedstars has spent years inside this exact problem, building relationships and infrastructure with entrepreneurs across emerging markets who are ambitious, capable, and underserved by traditional financial tooling. SIGMA supports participating programs, and the Tyms integration adds bookkeeping and financial reporting support for eligible entrepreneurs.

What the integration actually does

Tyms has integrated with Seedstars’ SIGMA platform to support bookkeeping and financial reporting for entrepreneurs in participating programs. Eligible entrepreneurs can:

• Upload a bank statement and have transactions automatically categorized
• Snap a photo of a receipt or describe a transaction in plain language
• Get real-time income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements as data comes in
• Ask Adam questions about their own numbers in natural language, the way they'd ask a person

No debits and credits. No chart of accounts to learn. No hiring a bookkeeper before you can prove your business is real.

Why this matters beyond the two of us: Every business owner deserves to know where their money is going, regardless of whether they can afford an accountant. That belief is why we built Tyms. Seedstars is putting it in front of thousands of founders across three continents. - Ibrahim Adepoju, CEO and Co-founder, Tyms

“Many entrepreneurs have the business data, but not the financial records they need to make decisions or speak to lenders and investors. Connecting Tyms with SIGMA gives eligible founders in participating programs a practical way to turn that information into usable financial statements.” — Pierre-Alain Masson, CEO and Co-founder, Seedstars

What's next: We built this integration to be a template, not a one-off. If you're building a platform for small business owners in emerging markets—banking, lending, coworking, e-commerce, or anything—and your users are stuck without financial records, we want to talk.

Email us: developer@usetyms.com