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Bench

Online bookkeeping service for small businesses

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501-1000 employees
  • Fintech
  • B2B
  • Bookkeeping
  • SaaS
  • Accounting
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC

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Company mission

Bench's mission is to help entrepreneurs and small businesses master their financial lives and focus on what they care about by taking care of their bookkeeping and taxes.

Top investors

5% employee growth in 12 months

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Our take

Managing a business is a difficult task even before taking care of the complexities of the business's finances and taxes, leading to many people seeking advice from bookkeepers. However, this generally still requires a lot of financial data input from the client, often occurs offline, and can be completely unaffordable for small businesses.

Bench provides an online bookkeeping service for small businesses, offering one-on-one expert support from accountants and small business experts, in addition to other financial tools. The company focuses on facilitating seamless tax declaration for users, as well as providing general financial advice, all-in-one financial dashboards, and tools for financial statements & analytic reports.

Whilst bookkeeping services are nothing new, Bench has taken a unique approach by integrating with the likes of Shopify, Stripe, Freshbooks and Sage. This enables them to provide small businesses with a more centralized and tailored financial experience, one which has led to major funding and in 2022, a slate of key leadership hires.

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Benefits

  • Our HQ is in downtown Vancouver BC, where we offer hybrid and remote working opportunities.
  • All Benchmates have access to Inkblot Therapy, our virtual counselling service to support mental wellbeing, and Bravely, our confidential, on-demand, 1:1 professional coaching service
  • At Bench we share information freely and openly whenever possible
  • We offer an extended benefits package that includes paid vacation, unlimited paid flex days, and full health, dental, and vision type benefits
  • Bench has a number of Affinity Groups - groups of people who have shared identities and experiences! The purpose of these groups is to support underrepresented Benchmates and amplify their voices

Company values

  • Keep It Human - we retain a human approach in everything we do, at every level of the business. That includes how we interact with our clients, build product, and communicate with one another.
  • Take a Stand - when you take a stand at Bench, you create a future for yourself within that mission that gets you fired up.
  • Be Responsible - you have an incredible amount of freedom and autonomy at Bench. Being responsible at Bench is taking ownership of that freedom.
  • Default Open - we share information freely and openly, and we ensure that everyone can understand and use that information. No piece of data or information belongs to one person or team.
  • Get Scrappy - scrappiness is our ability to make bold decisions quickly. Our ability to do incredible, creative things despite the constraints that exist.

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Jun 2021

$60m

SERIES C

Jan 2018

$18m

SERIES B

Total funding: $110.7m

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Leadership

Jordan Menashy

(Board Member)

Previously Strategic Product Management Specialist for Research In Motion and Chief Revenue Officer for AvenueHQ.

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Marketing

Sales & Account Management