# Ahmad Ibrahim

> Ahmad Ibrahim is the co-founder and CEO of Neo.Tax, a Mountain View startup using AI to automate the messy, rule-heavy work of tax filing - starting with the R&D tax credit. A UC Berkeley economics and philosophy grad who built QuickBooks Accountant at Intuit and once ran operations for a Yemeni specialty coffee company, he raised roughly $13M to make the part of taxes everyone hates disappear. His thesis: you can't hallucinate in taxes, so point the AI at the business, not the tax code.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Neo.Tax
- **Organizations:** Neo.Tax, Intuit, Port of Mokha, Unleash Inc., Teamable Software, On Deck, Merrill Lynch
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A. Economics and Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics and Political Science
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Neo.Tax, raising approximately $13M to automate tax filing, Built QuickBooks Accountant from zero to one as a product manager at Intuit, Assembled a founding team pairing a Stanford machine-learning PhD with a former IRS agent

## Career timeline

- **2011** — Graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in economics and philosophy; entered structured finance at Merrill Lynch
- **2015** — Co-founder, COO & CFO at Port of Mokha, a specialty Yemeni coffee company (through 2018)
- **2018** — Worked at Intuit as a product manager, building QuickBooks Accountant from zero to one
- **2019** — Co-founded Neo.Tax in Mountain View, California, to automate tax filing
- **2022** — Raised Series A; total funding reaches roughly $13M
- **2024** — Featured on Category Visionaries and Frontlines podcasts discussing the future of tax automation

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Neo.Tax, raising approximately $13M to automate tax filing
- Built QuickBooks Accountant from zero to one as a product manager at Intuit
- Assembled a founding team pairing a Stanford machine-learning PhD with a former IRS agent
- Pioneered AI that produces audit-ready R&D tax credit filings, including multi-year lookback claims, without surveys or interviews

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Appeared on the Category Visionaries podcast discussing the future of tax automation and AI.
- **2024-02** — Featured on the Frontlines.io podcast on raising $13M to build the future of tax automation.

## Links

- Website: https://neo.tax
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aibrahima
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/useneotax
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjuBeJZeD-I
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/useneo.tax

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Last updated: 2026-06-12