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Fondo

Winter 2018 · Active

Bookkeeping, tax, & tax credits on autopilot for 1,000+ startups

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2020

Team size: 80

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About

Fondo is the easy way for startups to get their bookkeeping done, taxes filed, and cash back from the IRS (average startup gets $21k). We’ll optimize and file your taxes, and you’ll get cash back — up to $500k per year. Need more help? We’ll also do your bookkeeping, so you don’t have to worry about a thing.

Founders

  • David J. PhillipsFounder/CEO

    CEO at Fondo — accounting on autopilot for 1,000+ startups. Angel investor: Flexport, LiquidDeath, Rippling, 85+. Started my career as an accountant at Deloitte, then learned to code. I was previously co-founder & CEO at Hackbright Academy, a 3 month coding school, where we trained 1,000+ software engineers and helped them get jobs at Uber, Google, Lyft, Meta, Disney and others. We bootstrapped to $3.6M per year in revenue were acquired by Capella University (NASDAQ: $CPLA) for $18M.