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Fonoa

Tax automation for the internet economy

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101-200 employees
  • Fintech
  • B2B
  • SaaS
  • API
  • Automation
North City, Dublin, Ireland

Company mission

To eliminate the manual work when dealing with taxes on online transactions.

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196% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

It's never been simpler to set up a business online. Tools like Stripe, Intercom, and Twilio have enabled entrepreneurs to sell to millions of consumers and businesses across borders. But managing tax compliance remains a minefield that gets even more intense as companies grow and scale internationally.

Fonoa removes the challenge of managing indirect taxes from the everyday business of digital-native companies, with a suite of plug-and-play products that make up its global tax compliance platform. Since launching in 2018, the company has expanded its product suite heavily and secured big-name clients such as Booking.com, Spotify, Teachable, Uber and Zoom.

With strong funding under its belt, Fonoa has continued to develop towards becoming a fully international player offering services on a global scale. The company is focusing on a full tax stack approach for growth, prioritising technology to suit the digital business models of today. Through this, the company is well-poised to tackle an almost unending market that has catapulted other startups to Unicorn status.

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Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays in your local country
  • We host bi-annual company off-sites along with individual team off-sites up to twice a year
  • We provide all the necessary equipment: Fully equipped tech gear and whatever you need for your ideal office workspace
  • We provide access to any learning courses, certifications, and tools through the world’s leading learning platforms
  • Bi-weekly paid lunch: We come online together on Fridays
  • Access to co-working hubs: You choose how to run your schedule
  • Flexibility and efficiency: We like writing to communicate when meetings are pointless, and meet when it matters
  • Freedom to work fully remote: You choose the location, we are flexible
  • We also have a Book Club, as a group, we choose what we read and then discuss it during a fortnightly morning huddle enjoying our breakfast, and coffee

Company values

  • Ownership: Be an owner not a renter
  • Problem first. Solution Second: Before starting any work on a solution, make sure to really understand the problem
  • Simplicity: We seek to solve complex issues and present simple solutions to our customers
  • Disagree and commit: We express our disagreements, but we stand behind team decisions
  • Bias for action: In order to compete we must outperform. Speed and agility matter

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jul 2022

$60m

SERIES B

Nov 2021

$20.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $85m

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Leadership

Prior to Fonoa, Davor was a GM at Uber for Southeastern Europe for 4 years, worked in consulting with McKinsey for a decade, and founded a VC-backed startup, Gourmeo.

Filip Sturman

(Co-Founder & COO)

Former CPO of the company. Before Fonoa, was a business operator at Uber, Uber Eats, and Trivago between Croatia, Spain, and Germany.

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