Exclusive: Juno, CPA-Founded Startup That Aims To Make Tax Returns Less Painful With AI, Raises $12M
By Mary Ann Azevedo
Published on April 9, 2026.
Dave Haase, a CPA-Founded Startup, Juno, has raised $12 million in a seed funding round led by Bonfire Ventures and Xfund. The startup aims to make tax returns less tedious and easier with AI technology, aiming to make it easier for small to mid-sized accounting firms, which currently make up 90% of the market, to be more efficient and less costly. Juno was built for the underserved SMB accounting firm and acts as a bridge between a client's raw documents and the accountant's filing software. It also performs tasks such as pulling data from IRS forms and unstructured documents, and automates 90% data entry across more than 90 document types. The process that takes a human two to three hours is reduced to seven to 10 minutes, leaving the accountant accountant to make human decisions that save the client money.
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