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Drake Software gives April its time back
A payroll shortcut became a business serving more than 70,000 tax professionals. Now Drake is chasing the minutes lost between the return, the signature, and the payment.
SafeSend and the $600 million chase for a signature
The tax return was finished. The work wasn’t. SafeSend built a business around that awkward gap, then followed the paperwork all the way back to the beginning.
Tax Technologies and the art of selling yesterday
Before asking a company to buy Tax Series, Tax Technologies offers to reproduce a year of its tax work. In a business devoted to calculating the future, yesterday makes a surprisingly persuasive sales pitch.
Soraban
Soraban is an AI-native tax workflow platform for accounting firms, automating the unbillable admin work of tax season - client intake, document collection, workpaper preparation, data entry into tax software, and final delivery. Founded in 2021 by engineer and former accounting-firm owner Enoch Ko and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2021 batch, the company is used by hundreds of CPA firms across the U.S. and Canada and closed a Series A led by Altos Ventures in August 2025.