It’s simple: Growth-stage companies need capital to fuel their ambitions. The not-so-simple part, of course, is securing that capital. And it’s largely up to the CFO to determine the best timing to raise funding, which sources to tap, and how to tailor their message to investors.

As Mark O’Connor, CFO of Cloudsmith, explained to CFO Brew, the finance chief has to “marry [an organization’s] cash needs with the market dynamics” and determine a good time to raise capital and who to raise it from.

Private funding sources are robust enough that “companies no longer need to be in the public markets to access capital like they once did,” Ro Sokhi, a partner at UHY, recently told CFO Brew.

Terawatt Infrastructure, a builder of autonomous vehicle charging infrastructure, plans to raise lots of capital in the near term to meet ambitious growth objectives.

Sujoy Haldar, Terawatt’s CFO, told us the company will invest “$3 billion to $5 billion over the next few years.” The company recently secured $300 million in debt financing.

Acquiring real estate and developing charging infrastructure for its customers “will take a lot of capital,” he said. That’s why “introducing Terawatt to the investor base…both on the debt side and the equity side” is a high priority for Haldar.

But the areas of fundraising success are very specific; keep reading here.—AZ

The IRS is worried about workslop.

In a recently released alert, 2026-19, the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility stressed the need for tax professionals to carefully review any AI-generated materials for errors or false statements. The alert referenced an incident that occurred last year, when Deloitte Australia was forced to refund the Australian government part of the $290,000 it had paid for a report that contained multiple hallucinations.

The new guidance gives further clarification on how tax practitioners can stay compliant with Treasury Circular 230, the set of rules for how tax professionals must conduct themselves when working with the IRS, while using generative AI (GAI). The alert states that practitioners must “thoroughly review all AI-created documents and language incorporated into writings before delivery to a client or submission to the IRS,” including any citations, facts, or calculations.

When giving written recommendations to clients, tax pros “should treat the [AI] advice as a starting point,” the alert said, and not “rely on GAI projections or representations without verification.”

The guidance is timely. In recent weeks, reports by two Big Four firms, KPMG and EY Canada, were found to be littered with AI-produced misinformation, per the Financial Times. (40 out of 45 citations in the KPMG report, ironically entitled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” were “at least partially AI hallucinations,” PC Mag reported.)

The IRS also has some notes on billing and AI; keep reading here.—CV

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