Rohit Gupta

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Auditoria.AI

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Rohit Gupta is co-founder and chief executive of Auditoria.AI, a company building autonomous AI agents for the corporate finance back office — the accounts payable and accounts receivable processes that together make up what it calls the cash cycle. It is his second enterprise software company to reach scale. The first was Palerra, a cloud access security broker he founded in 2013 and sold to Oracle three years later, after which he ran cloud security as an Oracle group vice president. Auditoria, which he started in 2019 with co-founder Adina Simu, was built on a bet that has since become conventional wisdom and was not at the time: that the repetitive, correspondence-heavy work of finance operations is better handled by software agents than by more headcount. The company says it was “building agentic AI before it was a thing”.

Career Highlights

• Co-founder and chief executive of Auditoria.AI, listed as such on the company’s own executive team page as of this review.
• Founded Palerra in 2013 — originally named Apprity — with Ganesh Kirti as chief technology officer, both of them former Oracle staff (TechCrunch, 18 September 2016).
• Raised $25 million for Palerra from investors including Norwest Venture Partners and August Capital, and sold the company to Oracle in an acquisition announced on 18 September 2016.
• Served as Group Vice President for Cloud Security at Oracle Corporation after the acquisition.
• Has led Auditoria to a platform the company says is used by 20,000 accounts payable and accounts receivable professionals and processes more than $35 billion a year across both sides of the cash cycle.
• Describes himself in conference speaker biographies as a serial entrepreneur, active angel investor and venture capital limited partner who has built, scaled, acquired and sold more than fifteen companies — his own account, not independently verified.

Professional Journey

Gupta’s career has run along a single line: securing and then automating the systems enterprises actually run on. He trained in computer science, taking a master’s at Case Western Reserve University, and spent time at Oracle before leaving to start a company of his own.

That company was Apprity, founded in 2013 and later renamed Palerra. It sold into what was then an emerging category — the cloud access security broker, software that sits between an enterprise and the cloud services its staff use, watching for breaches, compliance failures and insider threats, and automating the response. Gupta was chief executive; Ganesh Kirti, also an Oracle alumnus, was chief technology officer. The company raised $25 million from Norwest Venture Partners, August Capital and others. In September 2016 Oracle announced it was buying Palerra to strengthen its own cloud security stack, and Gupta went with it, becoming Oracle’s Group Vice President for Cloud Security.

He left to start Auditoria.AI in 2019 with Adina Simu, who serves as its chief commercial and chief product officer. The thesis moved from security to finance but kept the same underlying shape: take a function drowning in repetitive transactional work — invoice processing, accruals, vendor and customer correspondence, collections, remittance matching — and give it software that acts rather than merely reports. Auditoria now sells accounts payable and accounts receivable agents, a helpdesk for each side, cash intelligence and a research product, and claims a proprietary language model specialised for finance. By the company’s own figures it supports 20,000 finance professionals and processes more than $35 billion annually. Its news page shows continued expansion through 2026, including a UK and European push announced in January 2026 and what it described in March 2026 as a record fiscal year.

Education

Case Western Reserve University

Master’s degree, Computer Science

This rests on a conference speaker biography supplied by the subject. No institutional record was checked and no graduation year was established.