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Ex-Razor and N26 alumni land €36M to build AI roll-up of Germany's tax industry. September 9, 2026 * Berlin-based startup Limetax has raised €36 million, comprising €6 million in early-stage equity and a €30 million bank loan, to develop AI tools for tax advisers in Germany. * Angel investors include Christian Lindner, who was Germany's former finance minister, and the founders of Moss, a German fintech company. * In eight months, Limetax acquired four tax firms and states that its artificial intelligence has reduced the time needed for monthly bookkeeping from 20 hours to six. Christian Lindner served as Germany's finance minister for three years, overseeing the country's tax code, and is currently investing in a startup that automates tax work - Limetax. The Berlin-based company just raised €36 million, comprising €6 million in early-stage equity and a €30 million bank loan, to develop an AI platform for tax advisers and to acquire firms that will use this technology. Motive Partners led the €6 million round, backed by Activant, Heliad, and various angel investors, including Lindner, Alexander Kudlich of 468 Capital, and the Moss founders, Anton Rummel and Ante Spittler. Another €30 million in credit was provided by a group of German banks. Working with Germany's main tax software system. Prior to that, at Razor Group, Gamon was a co-founder and served as the company's CFO; the firm was an Amazon aggregator with projected revenues of $1 billion. Meyer was in charge of operations at Razor Group and expanded the team to more than 100 people after having worked at Lazard and N26. Dansard played a role in setting up Augustus, a German-American banking company that Tech Funding News covered in July. The Limetax platform uses DATEV, the software used by most of Germany's 60,000 tax advisers. It provides AI tools for handling bookkeeping, payroll, and preparing financial reports. A human is always required to check the results so that the professionals retain legal responsibility. The strategy is similar to the one employed by LawX in the case of notaries, since it is no coincidence that Motive Partners has led both funding rounds. Motive Partners regards the professional services sector in Germany, which depends on DATEV and faces a shortage of skilled personnel, as one of its areas of investment. "Professional services is one of the largest sectors where the potential of AI is only beginning to be unlocked. In accounting & tax, the constraint is not demand, it is capacity. Limetax is building technology where the work actually happens: together with the partner firms and deeply embedded in their operations. The combination of technology and professional expertise has the potential to build a new generation of accounting & tax firms," said Michael Hock, partner, venture at Motive Partners. Limetax mainly competes with software companies such as sevDesk, Lexoffice, and ADDISON, which sell to individual firms but do not purchase them. Reducing processing time from 20 hours to 6. Limetax states that its initial bookkeeping tools have reduced the time required to process each client per month from 20 hours to 6. The company currently has four firms in seven locations, employs about 150 people, and has achieved annualised revenues in the tens of millions within eight months. "The future of accounting & tax advisory will not be built by adding another AI tool. It will be built by rethinking advisory and technology together from the ground up," concludes Gamon, co-founder and CEO of Limetax. The market for tax accounting software in Germany was valued at approximately $858 million in 2024 and is expected to reach about $2 billion by 2035. Although this figure is lower than the investments in AI and defence technology, it indicates a potential opportunity in this area. It is rare for roll-ups to be established in highly competitive markets. It is not yet clear whether Limetax's strategy will succeed in the regulated tax sector or encounter the same problems as Razor Group. The result will become more apparent at the next funding round.

Berlin fintech Limetax has secured €36m in funding to consolidate tax advisory firms using AI technology. The startup aims to build a rollup business in the sector. Limetax has already demonstrated an aggressive acquisition strategy, purchasing four companies within its first eight months of operation. The new capital will fuel further acquisitions as the company works to create a larger network of tax advisory services. The funding will support Limetax's AI-powered platform, which seeks to modernise and streamline tax advisory operations across its growing portfolio of acquired firms.