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Stuff.tv
6 days ago
- Stuff.tv
Forget wireless earbuds, the Campfire Audio Grand Luna have me reaching for wired buds again
While there are plenty of top headphones to pick from, sticking with a wire will get you better sound. If you want to focus on the purest sound, look towards a set of in-ear monitors. Better yet, get a set with planar-magnetic drivers for even better accuracy and a more open soundscape. That's exactly what Campfire Audio's latest wired earbuds offer, and they might be about to sway me away from wireless buds. The Grand Luna buds feature a a custom 14mm planar driver with two precision-tuned BAs. That's all encased in a red transparent shell that looks like it's been pinched straight from the set of Blade Runner. In other words, they look as gorgeous as they'll sound. Campfire Audio isn't just using any planar. Rather, they've opted for a revamped version of their own, tuned for buttery smooth, hyper-detailed sound that promises hours of listening without ear fatigue. Frequency response is equally impressive. The Grand Luna's planar doesn't just handle the low end like a champ – it's pushing up to a frankly ludicrous 30 kHz on the top. Yes, I know, your ears won't hear it. But it's about the headroom, the air, the sense of space on the soundscape that you only get from high-end buds. There's a new modular cable that also caught my attention. Rather than including adapters, Campfire has opted for swappable terminations. You can pick from 3.5mm, 4.4mm, and USB-C with a Cirrus Logic DAC chucked in for good measure. In theory, you should be able to use the Grand Luna out and about without dragging a stack of dongles or a brick-sized DAP with you. The Grand Luna are available to order now, priced at $1399/£1399. You can grab a set directly from Campfire Audio or even third-party retailers like Amazon.
Stuff.tv
14-07-2025
- Stuff.tv
This accessory may be the easiest way to listen to Hi-Fi audio from your phone
Got a killer pair of headphones, but nothing to plug them in to? Or maybe, you want to listen to Hi-Fi audio on your cans, but your device (such as a smartphone) can't output the audio. You'll need a DAC – they're usually quite fiddly, but not this one. Campfire Audio's Relay accessory is a dinky new DAC/AMP that slides into your pocket without kicking up a fuss. Yet it still promises to deliver the kind of sound usually reserved for amps the size of bricks and the weight of top dollars. From the outside, Relay is sleek, aluminium-clad, and unapologetically premium. Inside, it's packing an AKM 4493 SEQ DAC chip, which might not mean much to your average Spotify-on-a-smart-fridge user, but those who've flirted with the idea of Hi-Fi on the go will be excited. The chip adds a bit of analogue charm to your digital music – promising a hint of warmth and a smidge of character. This thing can basically connect to any device. It has a USB-C connector and works with Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android. It even plays nice with gaming PCs, in case you want to take your gaming to the next level (pun fully intended). There's a real sense that Campfire Audio has tried to make the Relay not just portable, but usable. You get both 3.5mm and 4.4mm outputs, high and low gain modes, six filter options, support for up to 32-bit/768kHz playback, PCM and DSD formats, and even media playback controls. Campfire even included a bunch of thoughtful extras. You get a short USB-C cable that won't tangle, a microfibre cloth for the inevitable fingerprints, and a plush little bag to keep it all snug. The Campfire Audio Relay DAC/AMP is available now directly from the brand, Amazon US, Amazon UK, and specialist audio retailers. It'll set you back £229/$229, which is pretty comparable for this kind of device.
Bloomberg
02-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Accel Leads $35 Million Funding in Campfire
Accel Partner Christine Esserman explains why the company led an unusually large Series A funding round into AI-native enterprise software startup Campfire. She speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on 'Bloomberg Tech.' (Source: Bloomberg)
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A
AI-powered accounting startup Campfire announced Monday that it has raised a $35 million Series A led by Accel, with participation from Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49, and angel investors including Mercury's CFO Dan Kang. 'Within nine months of formation, we had customers [with] north of 100 employees ripping out NetSuite and putting in Campfire,' founder CEO John Glasgow said. Some of Campfire's customers that have migrated from NetSuite include wealth management platform Advisor360, construction software startup Rhumbix, and customer experience company Fooji, Campfire says. This was, in part, because Glasgow attended YC in the summer of 2023, despite being decidedly more experienced than the typical 20-something YC founder. He described the age difference with a funny story: During a YC bingo event, 'One of the bingos was 'find someone that's a parent,' and I was the hot commodity at YC bingo.' Glasgow already had a decade and a half career in finance working for Fidelity, Union Square Advisors, and others. When his manager from Adobe left to run an Accel-backed startup called Invoice2go, he took Glasgow with him. Less than a year later, in the fall of 2021, bought Invoice2go for about $625 million. Glasgow wound up with both the cash and an idea to build his own startup, one that would automate the drudgery in finance like reconciling payments on bills, revenue forecasts, and — the part he discovered during the Invoice2go deal — due diligence for M&A. He launched Campfire in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. Campfire does things like automatically itemize and reconcile AWS cloud computing bills. It generates detailed cash flow analysis, charts, and answers to questions from natural-language prompts. 'One of our customers went from a 15-day to a three-day close when they ripped out NetSuite and put in Campfire,' he says about the time to finalize the books each month. YC's famed access to other cohort alums helped him land tech startups as customers, like Sierra AI and Replo. He has since not only landed unicorn fintech startup Mercury as a customer, but its CFO invested. While Campfire is just a gnat in terms of its impact on Oracle's billion-dollar (and growing) NetSuite business, the startup gained enough customers to prove its competitive plausibility. At its seed stage, Campfire grew to around 100 customers and is now up to 12 employees including, Glasgow said, one global customer on track to do a $250 million ARR. 'I was surprised that there were businesses of this size that were trusting their whole ERP to a 10-person, seed-stage project,' Accel's John Locke, who had backed Invoice2Go, told TechCrunch of what had enticed him with Campfire. Locke typically invests at the growth stage. But given that kind of 'traction out of the gates' and a total ERP software market of $56 billion in 2024, according to some market research reports, Locke was in to lead the A. And he was in big. '[The] AI ERP business is massive, and we think John is really the right person to do it. So why don't we do a $30 [million] to $35 million series A, and really go for it?' he told Glasgow and his partners. So they did. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Associated Press
30-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Campfire Raises $35 Million Series A Led by Accel to Build the Next-Generation AI-Driven ERP
As AI reshapes enterprise software, Campfire's rapid growth signals a new era for finance and accounting teams. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Campfire, the rapidly emerging leader in AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, today announced it has raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from existing and new investors including Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital 49, and angel investors including, Marten Abrahamsen, CFO at Vercel, Dan Kang, CFO at Mercury, Alex Estevez, Former CFO at Atlassian, Michael Gordon, Former CFO at MongoDB, Sowmya Ranganathan, Former Controller at OpenAI, and Jack Zhang, Co-Founder & CEO at AirWallex. The round accelerates the company's mission to redefine finance for the AI era—fueling deeper product development, major investments in GenAI, and expanded reach to serve more ambitious companies globally. ERP is one of the largest and most established markets in enterprise software, with a market capitalization of over $1 trillion across legacy incumbents such as Oracle, SAP, and Intuit. These platforms, built decades ago, have struggled to keep pace with the demands of today's fast-moving, modern businesses. Campfire is seizing this moment of massive disruption, building a fully modern, AI-first ERP platform that is already winning over customers from established players like NetSuite and SAP. 'I founded Campfire because, as a customer, I lived through the pain of a legacy ERP that was holding us back. Our team has rebuilt ERP from the ground up, leveraging the latest in AI and modern architecture so finance teams can accelerate their monthly close, unlock deeper financial insights, and make smarter decisions,' said John Glasgow, Campfire CEO and Founder. 'Accel was a great partner and investor from my time at Invoice2go, where I was an exec and led the company's $625M sale to I'm thrilled to be partnered with the Accel team again. Their conviction and partnership provide credibility and confidence for the next stage of growth.' The company's GenAI conversational interface, Ember AI, powered by Anthropic's Claude models, enables finance teams to interact with their data using natural language, run advanced reporting, and automate manual tasks—delivering real productivity gains and financial insights. 'At Accel, we have a long history of backing transformative software companies—including CrowdStrike, which redefined cybersecurity; Slack, which revolutionized workplace productivity; and Scale AI, which set the standard for AI infrastructure. We believe Campfire has the potential to reshape the ERP market similarly,' said John Locke, Partner at Accel and Campfire Board Director. 'We have worked with John Glasgow previously, and believe his deep experience in finance gives him unique insight into the challenges CFOs face and how AI can elevate finance teams. Campfire's rapid product execution, customer traction, and vision for an agentic future make them uniquely poised to lead this next wave of innovation.' Campfire's platform has already displaced legacy products at a number of enterprises, with customers such as Replit, Trust & Will, Coder, and others praising its ease of use, automation features, and ability to support complex, global organizations. 'I've implemented Campfire entirely in-house, not once, but twice. Both times, we closed our books just three weeks after signing,' said Brian Ehrlich, Finance Director at Flex. 'At Flex, Campfire saved us over $300K in implementation costs, avoided hiring 1–2 full-time staff, and provided us with a scalable system that supports us through 1,000+ employee growth. With Campfire, we went from incomplete reconciliations to full GAAP accrual accounting and significantly faster close. It's a modern, AI-powered platform that will grow with us well into the future—automating what used to take teams of people, with no consultants required.' 'As a lean team with complex, high-volume needs, NetSuite created more friction than momentum as we continued to scale,' said Zach Doyle, Accounting Manager at Advisor360. 'Campfire was the modern ERP that could move at our pace. Campfire has helped us streamline financial processes, increase velocity, and build the foundation to scale with the business, while helping us stay lean as we grow.' 'As a fast-growing AI software development company, our accounting team manages complex customer contracts,' said Daniel deCoen, Controller at Coder. 'Campfire is the AI-native ERP flexible enough to keep up, automating complex revenue logic and providing us with clarity as we scale.' 'At Trust & Will, our rapid growth introduced complex financial challenges that required a modern, flexible infrastructure. As an AI-native ERP, Campfire uniquely matched the speed, complexity, and ambition of our business,' said Ron Wangerin, CFO at Trust & Will. 'By automating manual processes and delivering deeper financial insight, Campfire has given our team the clarity and time to focus on strategic work and partner with us as we scale.' The ERP market is at an inflection point, with a 'great unbundling' opportunity emerging as AI and cloud-native architectures reshape the landscape. Campfire's San Francisco-based team has rapidly developed a category-defining AI-native ERP designed to support companies from startup through IPO. This funding will further accelerate the company's mission. As part of this next chapter, Campfire is launching Finance Forward, the first summit dedicated to empowering finance and accounting teams with the tools, knowledge, and community to thrive in the AI era. Sign up here to learn more. About Campfire Campfire is the AI-first ERP powering modern finance and accounting teams. A full replacement to legacy ERPs, it offers a general ledger, revenue automation, close management, and so much more—all on one unified platform. Campfire empowers finance teams with powerful, intuitive software that saves time on the monthly close, unlocks deeper financial insights, and scales with you. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator, Capital49 and notable finance execs from public and private companies. For more, visit About Accel Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit or Campfire Media Contact [email protected] View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Campfire Software, Inc.
