Tax software company Column Tax, which provides an API that enables mobile banking and fintech companies to offer tax products to their users, announced today that it has raised a $21.7 million series A. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from Felicis and Not Boring.
The way the company works is when tax filing season comes up, a user will access Column Tax via an existing partner app and when a new user session starts the hosts app will passes al the information for the tax filing, with the user’s permission.
Column Tax is then able to pre-fill out the tax questionnaire, generate whats a custom tax questionnaire to gather the rest of the data such as other income, information about credits, or information about deductions. The company then collect that have a tax engine , do the official tax filing and then help get the tax refund deposited in their accounts.Column Tax generates revenue is through standard API pricing where its partners pay per filing, based on volume.
Cofounders Gavin Nachbar and Michael Bock met at Waymo where they worked on self-driving cars for several years. The two launched Column Tax in February of last year and since then, they have grown the company 11 employees. Kevin Zhang, partner at Bain Capital Ventures, which led the investment round says that they were excited about the company’s vision where planning the tax filing and tax optimization for individuals could be something that happens throughout the year.
“It’s a product vision where users make decisions while having in mind the impact on tax filing and tax obligations the whole time, as opposed to once a year activity where you’re already surprised as to how much you might be refunded,” Zhang says.
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