Berlin-based Limetax has raised €36 million, comprising €6 million in pre-Seed equity and a €30 million credit facility.
The pre-Seed equity was led by New York-based Motive Partners, with participation from Activant and Heliad, while the credit facility came from a consortium of German banks. The equity round also saw participation from notable names, including former German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, former Rocket Internet executive and 468 Capital co-founder Alexander Kudlich, and Anton Rummel and Ante Spittler, the founders of FinTech unicorn Moss.
“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. Together with our partner firms, we are building a group where our agentic platform becomes the technological backbone of day-to-day work,” said Christoph Gamon, co-founder and CEO of Limetax.
Limetax was founded by Gamon, Maximilian Meyer and Christoph Dansard to address the structural constraints facing Germany’s nearly 54,000 tax and accounting firms. Before launching Limetax in January 2026, Gamon co-founded the e-commerce group Razor Group, served as its CFO as the company scaled to a reported valuation of more than $500 million, and had earlier worked at Rocket Internet and in UBS’s London investment banking arm.
Meyer was on Razor Group’s founding team and later led an operations division of more than 100 employees, having previously worked at Lazard and N26. Dansard was a founding engineer at FinTech unicorn Augustus (formerly Ivy) and studied at the Technical University of Munich.
Limetax says tax and accounting firms struggle to recruit enough qualified staff even as tax rules grow more complex, and a large share of their time goes into repetitive tasks such as data collection, bookkeeping and deadline management, leaving less room for advisory work. To overcome this human capacity challenge, Limetax brings established firms together under one group and embeds its proprietary agentic platform directly into their operations.
Its agentic AI platform runs on top of DATEV, the software backbone of the German tax profession, and coordinates AI agents across bookkeeping, payroll and financial statements. Even though AI agents are at the centre, the final output passes through a human review layer, with professional responsibility and client advice remaining with the firms’ own advisers.
Just eight months after its launch, Limetax has expanded to four firms across seven locations, employs around 150 people, and has reached annualised revenue in the double-digit millions. Its AI platform is now running across every firm in the group and according to the company, early bookkeeping deployments have cut monthly processing time from around 20 hours to six.
“In accounting and 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,” said Michael Hock, Partner, Venture at Motive Partners.
Limetax will use the equity and credit facility to accelerate its plan to consolidate Germany’s fragmented tax advisory market and roll out its own AI agent platform across partner firms. The capital will also help the company continue developing its agentic platform and bring more tax firms into its group.
Source: EU-Startups
