# Ahmad Ibrahim

> Ahmad Ibrahim is the co-founder and CEO of Neo.Tax, a Mountain View company automating R&D tax-credit work and software capitalization. He previously worked in structured finance at Merrill Lynch, co-founded the small-business CFO app Unleash, and served as a product manager for QuickBooks Accountant at Intuit. His public interviews discuss customer discovery, explainable tax AI, company culture, and learning to sell as a CEO.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Neo.Tax
- **Organizations:** Neo.Tax, Intuit, Unleash, Merrill Lynch
- **Education:** University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics and Political Science
- **Known for:** Co-founded Neo.Tax with Firas Abuzaid and Stephen Yarbrough., Led Neo.Tax when it announced its $10 million Series A in February 2022., Neo.Tax received a 2023 Products That Count Product Award in FinTech.

## Career timeline

- **Undated, early career** — Worked in structured finance at Merrill Lynch.
- **Before Intuit; exact dates unverified** — Co-founded Unleash, a CFO app for small businesses.
- **Before Neo.Tax; exact dates unverified** — Worked as a product manager on QuickBooks Accountant at Intuit.
- **2019** — Neo.Tax was founded; Ibrahim is its co-founder and CEO.
- **2022** — Neo.Tax announced a $10 million Series A led by Infinity Ventures and a Mercury partnership.
- **2023** — Neo.Tax announced its CFO advisory council and received a Products That Count Product Award in FinTech.
- **2025** — Published an essay about AI and R&D credits in Tax Executive.
- **2026** — Discussed enterprise customers and founder-led selling in Infinity Ventures’ founder spotlight.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Neo.Tax with Firas Abuzaid and Stephen Yarbrough.
- Led Neo.Tax when it announced its $10 million Series A in February 2022.
- Neo.Tax received a 2023 Products That Count Product Award in FinTech.
- Invited speaker at TEI and Thomson Reuters tax-industry webinars.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — In an Infinity Ventures founder spotlight, Ibrahim described an enterprise audience, named Adobe, Block, Capital One and Databricks as users, and emphasized that CEOs need to sell.
- **2025-10** — A Neo.Tax profile of Jo Bryant described Ibrahim’s recruitment of her following the Thomson Reuters reseller agreement.
- **2025-04** — Published “The Impact of AI in R&D Tax Credits” in Tax Executive on April 30.

## Links

- Website: https://www.neo.tax/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aibrahima/

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Last updated: 2026-10-13