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Markets2026-08-13 · source-backed
The OpenAI-backed firm closed at $12B post from SoftBank, D1 Capital, and Altimeter, acquiring traditional businesses and rebuilding their operations with AI, with OpenAI holding a stake since December 2025 and embedding its own employees in portfolio companies. Its accounting platform Current spans 50+ firms and 2,000+ professionals with a TaxAI product that processed 7,000+ returns at 98% accuracy and cut prep time 30%. This inverts the SaaS model: don't sell agents to accounting firms, buy the firms and capture the labor margin.
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