Kintsugi
ProviderEmbedded-finance provider tracked in the Embedded Finance Index — disclosed by 2 companies across 1 category.
CategoriesTax
Rank#8 of 9 in Tax
Buyers2 companies
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, USA
Founded2023
FoundersPujun Bhatnagar, Barkin Doganay, Jeff Gibson
Raised$28M+ across disclosed rounds (Series A $6M, extension $4M, Vertex-led $18M; earlier seed not itemised)
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Founders & story · from Kintsugi’s own dossier
Founded in 2023 in response to the post-Wayfair sales-tax compliance burden, Kintsugi positions itself as an 'AI-native' alternative to Avalara and TaxJar. The company started with US sales tax automation for ecommerce and SaaS, then expanded into VAT/GST across 100+ countries. Notably, for NetSuite customers it embeds Vertex's enterprise tax engine underneath its own AI workflows — a hybrid of proprietary AI and licensed enterprise tax content.
Latest round: Vertex-led strategic round, April 2025 ($18M) · Investors: Vertex, Airwallex, Link Ventures, Venture Highway, KyberKnight, Plug and Play, DeVC
Key signals
- Vertex, the incumbent enterprise tax vendor, invested $15M for ~10% of Kintsugi, shares IP, takes a board seat and co-sells 'Kintsugi powered by Vertex' on a revenue-share basis.
- Airwallex led the November 2024 Series A extension ($4M, valuation doubled to $80M).
- Traction: ~$3M revenue in 2024 targeting $10M+ in 2025, ~2,400 customers, 5.5M transactions worth $7.7B, 45% SaaS customers (CEO to TechCrunch).
- Kintsugi ingests revenue at the point of sale through Shopify, Stripe, Chargebee, QuickBooks or a custom API, plus an MCP server for developers.
- Accounting-platform connectivity runs through Apideck's unified accounting API (publisher-reported, not public).
Recent developments
- 2026-07SHOPLINE launched a native Kintsugi integration in its App Store, offering Kintsugi's tax calculation, nexus monitoring, registration and filing to its merchants. source ↗
- 2025-10Vertex and Kintsugi launched 'Kintsugi powered by Vertex', an AI-native tax automation solution for SMBs (nexus monitoring, registration, categorisation, calculation, filing, remittance). source ↗
- 2025-04Raised $18M led by Vertex ($15M minority stake, ~10%; $3M from existing investors) at a $150M post-money valuation, with IP sharing and a revenue-share partnership. source ↗
- 2024-11Series A extension of $4M led by Airwallex, doubling the valuation to $80M post-money. source ↗
Who uses Kintsugi
2 companies disclose Kintsugi in their stack
Buyer mix · 2 of 2 classified
E-commerce / Platform · 1Horizontal SaaS / Tax Compliance · 1
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Where Kintsugi’s buyers are
2 countries with a disclosed buyer HQ
2 classified buyers, shaded by concentration — heaviest in 🇭🇰 Hong Kong (1). HQ country, not where Kintsugi operates.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong · 1🇺🇸 United States · 1
What Kintsugi runs on · from its own dossier
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Alternatives to Kintsugi
Other Tax providers in the index, by the number of companies that disclose them. A count of public disclosures, not a ranking of the products.
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Which companies use Kintsugi?
2 companies are linked to Kintsugi in the Embedded Finance Index 2026, through their own public disclosures or Kintsugi's published customer list, including SHOPLINE and Vertex.
What does Kintsugi do?
Kintsugi is an embedded-finance provider in Tax. It ranks #8 of 9 Tax providers by linked companies.
Who founded Kintsugi?
Kintsugi was founded by Pujun Bhatnagar, Barkin Doganay and Jeff Gibson and is founded in 2023, headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
How much funding has Kintsugi raised?
Kintsugi has raised $28M+ across disclosed rounds (Series A $6M, extension $4M, Vertex-led $18M; earlier seed not itemised) in total.
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