DataSnipper makes TIME’s Best Inventions 2025 list

Feature underscores DataSnipper’s role in shaping the future of audit and finance through AI-driven innovation. 

The annual TIME Best Inventions list celebrates breakthroughs that are changing the world. To compile this year’s edition, TIME editors and correspondents from around the globe evaluated thousands of nominations across originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact. 

DocuMine: Automating Accuracy in Audit and Finance 

Audit and finance professionals spend countless hours manually searching through large volumes of documents to uncover insights and evidence. DocuMine brings the power of advanced AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) directly into Excel, where audit and finance teams work, turning hours of manual work into minutes and allowing professionals to focus on insights, not data hunting. 

Transforming how professionals work, DocuMine stands out by: 

• Reinventing how evidence is found — harnessing generative AI to instantly analyze large volumes of documents, extract key information, and surface precise answers that once took hours of manual effort. 

• Making trust the game changer — every answer comes with traceable references (Snips) back to the source document, ensuring transparency, trust, and full accountability. 

• Elevating human expertise — empowering audit and finance teams to review and validate AI-generated insights, keeping professionals firmly in control of the process and freeing up time to operate more strategically. 

“DocuMine has become a powerful addition to our audit toolkit. It makes our work more engaging and efficient,” said John Toon, Chartered Accountant, Menzies. “The potential use cases for DocuMine are limitless.” 

Trusted by leading firms like the Big 4, DocuMine streamlines the audit and finance process, making it faster, higher quality, and more efficient. 

Built for the realities of audit and finance 

DocuMine is already helping teams work faster and with greater confidence across common financial review processes, from loan, lease, and purchase agreements to valuation reports, insurance policies, board minutes, and M&A documents. By handling the search, trace, and cross-reference work automatically, DocuMine lets professionals concentrate on the insights that matter most. 

“This feature in TIME is a powerful validation of the urgent need for innovation in the audit and finance sector,” said Vidya Peters, CEO of DataSnipper. “We developed DocuMine not just as a tool, but as a critical solution to solve a decades-old efficiency and quality challenge. By automating the evidence-finding process with AI, we are empowering audit and finance teams to use their professional judgment where it matters most, leading to higher quality and more reliable financial assessments worldwide.” 

“We built DocuMine so audit and finance teams can focus on judgment, not data hunting,” said Thilo Richter, VP of Product & Engineering at DataSnipper. "Being included in TIME’s List of the Best Inventions of 2025 for AI, validates our mission to combine automation with accountability, helping professionals move faster while staying in full control.” 

AI that elevates professional judgment 

The feature of DocuMine in TIME’s Artificial Intelligence category follows DataSnipper’s recent launch of its AI Agents, Disclosure Agents and Excel Agents, built to automate complex audit and reporting tasks. These innovations highlight DataSnipper’s commitment to embedding AI directly into the tools professionals use every day. 

With more than 600,000 professionals in 175 countries now using DataSnipper, the company continues to lead AI adoption across the audit and finance sector, empowering teams to accelerate work, improve quality, and stay in full control of their data. 

About DataSnipper 

DataSnipper is transforming data in the audit and finance industry. Founded in 2017, DataSnipper provides audit and finance teams with an intelligent automation platform to drastically increase the quality and efficiency of audit and finance procedures. DataSnipper is used by over 600,000 audit and finance professionals in 175 countries and serves all four of the largest global auditing firms: Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. DataSnipper is the fastest-growing tech company in the Netherlands two years running and raised $100 million in Series B in 2024, led by Index Ventures at a **$1 billion valuation**, cementing its status as a European unicorn.