What if your company’s entire financial operation relied on the memory of a single employee?

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with David Stifter, founder of PredictAP. David spent a year searching for a tech solution to handle the 500,000+ invoices he managed at a massive private equity fund. When he couldn’t find one, he left his executive role to build it himself.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• The Complexity of Real Estate: Why paying a utility bill for a $100 million office building is 100x harder than buying a coffee.

• Strategic Fundraising: How PredictAP moved from “Friends and Family” to institutional backing from groups like RET Ventures and Wise Ventures.

• Relationship-Led Growth: The secret to getting a CFO to give you their “guinea pig” data for a beta test.

• The “Feedback Loop”: Why keeping a “person in the loop” is the only way to prevent AI from “hallucinating” on your financial records.

Featured Guest: David Stifter David is the founder and CEO of PredictAP. With over two decades of experience in real estate accounting and the “Yardi” ecosystem, he is a problem-solver who turned a back-office nightmare into a scaling tech powerhouse.

Connect with David: LinkedIn Profile | X (Twitter) | Instagram Learn more: https://www.predictap.com/

00:00 Introduction to Predict AP and the Funding Journey

03:15 Understanding Coded Invoices and Accounts Payable

06:25 The Complexity of Real Estate Invoicing

09:13 The Birth of Predict AP

12:06 Raising Initial Funds and Building Relationships

15:08 Navigating Customer Acquisition and Networking

21:39 Scaling the Invoice Solution

24:31 Value Proposition of PredictAP

27:32 AI and Job Security

29:40 Marketing Strategies for Customer Acquisition

38:48 Innovative Networking at Conferences

40:45 POD OUTRO.mp4

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