About Aleph Ventures
Aleph Ventures is a fast-scaling operator-led investment company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, focused on acquiring and growing residential painting companies. As a multi-entity investment platform, Aleph requires robust financial infrastructure to support consolidation and automation. With a dual-structure approach — owning local companies outright while taking majority or minority stakes in joint ventures — Aleph currently manages over 20 painting businesses through its “Ventures Division.” The company’s mission is to reach $100 million in top-line revenue by partnering with larger, growth-ready companies and unlocking scale through operational excellence.
Building a Scalable Finance Function from Day One
Under the leadership of Partner and CFO Erich Leidel, Aleph operates with a lean yet powerful finance team. With just four internal team members, Aleph oversees three holding companies and dozens of subsidiaries. Their mandate? To onboard new acquisitions quickly, build out monthly trend and KPI reports for each entity, and provide fast, accurate, and actionable financial data to stakeholders.
The Backbone of Aleph’s Tech Stack
To manage the complexity of its growing portfolio, Aleph relies on a tight and integrated tech stack:
- QuickBooks Online – Core accounting system
- LiveFlow – Automated reporting and financial consolidation platform
- Wallogy – In-house ERP tailored for painting companies, integrating with QuickBooks Online
- Google Workspace – Communication and collaboration infrastructure
LiveFlow sits at the center of Aleph’s reporting architecture, enabling powerful automation, accuracy, and real-time transparency across every entity.
The Challenge: Scaling Across 20+ Entities Without Losing Control
Before LiveFlow, Aleph’s financial consolidation process was painfully manual and fragmented. Key data like Revenue and Profit were pulled individually from each entity’s QuickBooks Online file and stitched together into static spreadsheets. There was no visibility into performance against budget, no category-level tracking, and certainly no real-time access. Delays in reporting meant slow decisions—and in a high-growth environment, that’s a risk Aleph could no longer afford.
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The Solution: LiveFlow as a Centralized Financial Command Center
With LiveFlow, Aleph transformed its financial reporting from a bottleneck into a strategic asset:
1. Real-Time Consolidated Reporting
LiveFlow connects directly to QuickBooks Online accounts across Aleph’s entire portfolio and syncs financial data in real time. With one click, leadership can access up-to-date consolidated reports — eliminating version control issues, manual consolidation, and reporting delays.
This real-time visibility empowers investment teams to make faster, data-driven decisions, and facilitates faster, cleaner board reporting.
2. Department-Level Visibility
While the executive team uses consolidated financials, functional teams — from Sales to Marketing — access their own departmental reports through LiveFlow without needing access to QuickBooks Online. This empowers teams with the data they need to hit goals and stay accountable, without requiring financial expertise.
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3. KPI Automation at Scale
From trend analysis to budget-to-actual tracking, Aleph’s monthly reporting and KPIs are now fully automated. As new companies finish due diligence and are onboarded, LiveFlow templates can be instantly replicated, creating a repeatable and scalable process that supports Aleph’s aggressive acquisition goals.
Enabling Strategic Growth, Not Just Reporting
As Aleph pushes toward its $100 million revenue target, LiveFlow is more than a reporting tool — it’s a strategic partner that enables Aleph to scale fast:
- Accelerated onboarding of new portfolio companies
- Consistent, accurate reporting across dozens of subsidiaries
- Faster decision-making for both leadership and operators
- Scalable infrastructure that keeps pace with Aleph’s investment pipeline
LiveFlow is purpose-built for companies that want to grow without compromising on financial clarity, control, or speed.
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