Limetax raises €36 million to consolidate German tax firms
Berlin's Limetax has secured €36 million in pre-Seed equity and debt to build a group of tax and accounting firms powered by its proprietary AI platform.
Berlin-based startup Limetax has raised €36 million. The funding comprises €6 million in pre-Seed equity led by Motive Partners and a €30 million credit facility from a consortium of German banks.
Co-founder and CEO Christoph Gamon stated the firm's ambition. "The future of accounting & tax advisory will not be built by adding another AI tool." he said. The equity round also attracted investment from former German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and several fintech founders.
The founding team's background
Limetax was founded in January 2026 by Christoph Gamon, Maximilian Meyer, and Christoph Dansard. Gamon was previously co-founder and CFO of the e-commerce group Razor Group. Meyer was also on Razor's founding team and led a large operations division. Dansard was a founding engineer at fintech unicorn Augustus.
Their venture targets the structural problems facing Germany's approximately 54,000 tax and accounting firms. According to Limetax, these firms struggle to recruit qualified staff as tax rules become more complex. A significant portion of their time is consumed by repetitive tasks like data collection and bookkeeping, leaving little room for higher-value advisory work.
Building a group with an AI backbone
The company's solution is twofold. First, it brings established tax and accounting firms together under a single group structure. Second, it embeds its proprietary agentic AI platform directly into their daily operations.
This platform is built on top of DATEV, the dominant software used by the German tax profession. It coordinates AI agents to handle bookkeeping, payroll, and financial statements. A key feature is that all final output is reviewed by a human professional, with client advice and legal responsibility remaining with the firms' own advisers.
Michael Hock, a Partner at lead investor Motive Partners, explained the rationale. "In accounting and tax, the constraint is not demand, it is capacity."
Early traction and deployment results
Just eight months after launch, Limetax has grown rapidly. It now includes four partner firms across seven locations, employs around 150 people, and has reached annualised revenue in the double-digit millions of euros. The AI platform is live across all firms in the group.
The company reports early efficiency gains from its technology. In initial bookkeeping deployments, the platform has reduced the monthly processing time for these tasks from approximately 20 hours to just six.
Use of new capital
The fresh €36 million in capital will be used to accelerate the company's consolidation strategy in Germany's fragmented tax advisory market. Funds are earmarked for further development of the agentic AI platform and for onboarding more tax firms into the Limetax group. The credit facility provides significant firepower for the acquisition and integration of partner firms.
