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Sales tax automation platform for e-commerce businesses, acquired by Stripe and integrated into its payment and tax compliance products.
TaxJar is a Portland, Oregon-based sales tax automation platform that was acquired by Stripe in 2021 and subsequently integrated into Stripe Tax, Stripe's native sales tax and VAT calculation product. Founded in 2013, TaxJar built one of the most widely adopted sales tax compliance platforms for e-commerce businesses in the United States, automating the calculation, collection, reporting, and filing of sales tax across all 50 states. Before the Stripe acquisition, TaxJar served tens of thousands of online merchants, marketplaces, and SaaS companies that faced the complex and rapidly evolving U.S. sales tax landscape following the 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair Supreme Court ruling, which enabled states to impose sales tax collection requirements on out-of-state sellers.\n\nTaxJar's pre-acquisition product addressed the fragmented state-by-state sales tax compliance problem comprehensively: it connected to e-commerce platforms including Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, and Amazon, automatically calculating the correct sales tax rate for every transaction based on origin and destination addresses and product taxability rules. The platform aggregated sales data into state-by-state reports and automatically filed returns directly with state tax authorities, eliminating the manual monthly filing burden that required hours of staff time for merchants with sales in many states. Economic nexus threshold monitoring—tracking whether a merchant had crossed each state's revenue threshold triggering collection obligations—was a key capability given the rapidly changing post-Wayfair compliance landscape.\n\nFollowing the Stripe acquisition, TaxJar's technology forms the foundation of Stripe Tax, which provides real-time tax calculation embedded directly in Stripe's payment processing API. This integration means that any business accepting payments through Stripe can enable automatic sales tax, VAT, and GST calculation and collection without a separate tax software implementation. TaxJar continues as a brand for its AutoFile and reporting services for merchants on platforms outside the core Stripe ecosystem.
Indoor vertical farming company using AI-optimized growing systems. San Francisco, CA. Raised $940M+ including $400M from SoftBank. Partners with Walmart for US farms.
Plenty is a San Francisco-based indoor vertical farming company that uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to grow leafy greens and other produce in controlled indoor environments. The company has raised over $940 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, which invested $200 million in 2017, and has positioned itself as the technology leader in data-driven indoor agriculture.\n\nPlenty's farms use precisely controlled light, temperature, humidity, and nutrient conditions to grow crops that are free from pesticides, use 99% less land, and consume significantly less water than conventional field agriculture. The company's AI systems continuously optimize growing conditions based on sensor data, learning to improve yields and quality across crops and growing cycles.\n\nIn 2022, Plenty announced a landmark partnership with Walmart to supply leafy greens from a new large-scale facility in Compton, California. This partnership provided both a major commercial anchor and significant additional funding from Walmart, validating Plenty's technology and business model at scale. The company also operates a dedicated strawberry R&D partnership with Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, demonstrating the platform's potential beyond leafy greens.
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