Caribou: The autonomous tax firm

Caribou

The autonomous tax firm

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https://usecaribou.com

The autonomous tax firm

Going global is now the norm. But the moment you set up an entity in another country, you inherit a tax and legal mess that compounds with every hire and every invoice. For example, one jurisdiction has to be profitable, cash has to move between entities compliantly, and every cross-border decision has to be audit-ready, which today means a different law firm in each country, a tax advisor on top of that, and you coordinating the chaos. The real expertise is locked up inside the Big Four. The world's largest companies pay millions a year for access. Everyone else gets selective coverage and hefty legal bills to half-solve the problem. Caribou is the first autonomous tax firm. No lengthy workshops, no months of back-and-fort; connect your finance and HR systems and we graph your business — every entity, process, and employee — into a model we call the Atlas. From there we check transfer pricing, surface legal risks you didn't know you had, maximise your R&D credits, and monitor for accidental taxes as your shape changes. And we don't just hand you a report. We speak to your accountants, draft the legal agreements, and implement the fix ourselves. We've turned an eight-week engagement into three hours. Why work with three firms when one does the job? We're already working with fast-growing companies like Butternut Box, OpenFX, Encord, Vertice, Omnea, and Hadrian - we've saved them hundreds of thousands on legal fees and surprise tax bills.

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Juan Andrade

Founder

Founder @ Caribou

Juan Andrade

Founder

Founder @ Caribou

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What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?

From international banking, to international taxes.

Caribou was formerly rebank (W19). rebank was the first open banking product for global businesses. We integrated banks across Europe & the US, allowed you to send money globally, and monitor your financial metrics from one dashboard.

Building rebank taught us that companies were going global earlier, and law/accounting firms couldn’t keep up with their cross-border needs. That insight led us to pivot to Caribou in 2024.

What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?

The way startups scale has gone global. Even the smallest teams now operate across borders—with a Delaware C-Corp, a UK subsidiary, and contractors in three countries. But the tax system hasn’t kept up. Every multinational, no matter how small, is legally required to follow transfer pricing rules—complex regulations designed for giants like Google and Apple.

That means founders suddenly have to deal with one of the most complicated areas of tax, law, and accounting: proving that the way their entities share profits, people, and IP is fair and compliant. Getting it wrong can cost them everything—from lost R&D credits and double taxation to failed funding rounds and audits they can’t afford.

Until now, there’s been no solution for this. Big Four firms charge six figures for what early-stage startups need to do, while accountants and lawyers are guessing—or skipping it entirely. We saw founders “flying blind” and leaving huge amounts of cash on the table, not because they didn’t care, but because the system wasn’t built for them.

Caribou changes that. We automate the hardest parts of transfer pricing by collecting and structuring messy business context with AI. What used to take consultants months now takes minutes, and with greater accuracy.

We’re solving this because global ambitions shouldn’t be punished by complexity. Caribou makes international tax compliance simple, affordable, and scalable—so ambitious startups can grow like multinationals, without the pain of becoming one.