Taxnova
AI infrastructure to run R&D tax claims and CapEx
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Taxnova turns the engineering data you already have — Jira, GitHub, technical docs, Slack — into review-ready, evidence-backed R&D tax and CapEx documentation. We don't replace your tax advisor; we do the heavy lifting continuously throughout the year before they touch the claim. No engineer interviews, no annual reconstruction scramble — contemporaneous, source-linked evidence built to stand up to IRS/CRA/HMRC scrutiny, surfacing qualifying work that gets missed. Live in the US/UK/FR/CA, with clients like Paddle and incident.io and backed by finance professionals like ex-Twilio CFO and Kraken's Head of Tax.
From their website
taxnova.ai ↗Taxnova provides an AI-native platform to automate and defensibly generate R&D tax relief claims for tech companies. It anchors data from engineering and finance sources to produce review-ready claims with traceable narratives and supporting evidence.
Connects to your engineering and financial tools to read-only access data, identifies qualifying R&D activity across teams and geographies, sizes eligible projects, and generates audit-ready claim reports with narratives linked to evidence and time allocations. The process is three steps: connect tools, auto-identify qualifying work, and deliver a claim-ready output that can be reviewed and submitted. It supports SOC 2 readiness, EU hosting, GDPR compliance, and works with common stacks (Jira, GitHub, Jira, Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Slack, Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, etc.).
Who it’s for: Finance and Engineering leaders of modern tech companies that run R&D tax claims and want faster, more defensible, and automated claims across multiple geographies.
- Automated identification and sizing of qualifying R&D activity
- Narratives and evidence-backed claim reports
- 0-disruption data capture from existing tooling
- Multiple country coverage with audit-ready documentation
- SOC 2 readiness and GDPR-compliant hosting
- Live ledger scanning to surface eligible costs
- Claims ready in days to 2 weeks
Funding announced (pre-seed/round led by a16z), active customer stories/case studies, product-focused marketing and demo booking
Founders · 2
Founder of Taxnova — helping engineering teams focus on R&D, not R&D tax. Taxnova bridges the worlds of finance and engineering which is perfect reflection of my background: education in economics & finance (UCL, CFA) and career in B2B product, analytics, and consulting (Gett, Oliver Wyman).
Hi there! I'm Maria, I'm passionate about saving engineers' time and turning messy unstructured data into insights. Both combine perfectly in what we are doing at Taxnova. I'm an avid traveller — ask me about South America, Asia and Siberia. not easy to combine that with startups, but I'm trying!
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