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EU VAT compliance automation for e-commerce and marketplaces; covers OSS scheme filing, multi-country VAT registration, and real-time calculation across EU states. Founded 2020, London.
Taxually is a London-based EU VAT compliance automation platform that helps e-commerce businesses, SaaS companies, and online marketplaces manage their VAT registration, calculation, reporting, and filing obligations across European Union member states and other VAT jurisdictions. Founded in 2020, Taxually was built in response to the growing complexity of EU VAT compliance for digital and e-commerce businesses, which was significantly complicated by the introduction of the EU's One Stop Shop (OSS) scheme in 2021—which simplified multi-country VAT filing for many cross-border sellers but introduced new eligibility rules, thresholds, and filing requirements that required specialized software to manage accurately. The platform handles VAT registration in EU member states, real-time rate calculation for digital and physical goods, and automated monthly or quarterly return filing.\n\nTaxually's platform is designed for the operational reality of e-commerce businesses that may be selling to customers in 27 EU member states simultaneously, each with different VAT rates for different product categories, different local thresholds, and different filing deadlines. The company provides a managed compliance service layer alongside its software—combining technology automation with human VAT specialists who handle edge cases, correspondence with tax authorities, and the VAT registration processes that require human interaction with national tax administrations. This hybrid technology-and-service model reflects the current maturity of VAT automation, where software can handle routine compliance but complex cross-border situations still benefit from specialist human judgment.\n\nTaxually targets e-commerce brands, SaaS businesses, and digital service companies based in the UK, North America, or elsewhere that are expanding sales into EU markets and need to comply with European VAT obligations without building an in-house EU tax function. The company competes with Avalara, Sovos, and Taxamo (Vertex) in the EU VAT compliance market, as well as with regional European tax compliance firms. Taxually differentiates on its focus on the EU VAT complexity space, its OSS scheme expertise, and the integration of managed services with software automation.
Global payments infrastructure founded by Patrick and John Collison (YC W10); $1.4T payments volume in 2024; $18B+ revenue; $106.7B valuation as of Sept 2025; powers everything from startups to Fortune 500 companies with developer-first API design.
Stripe is a global payments infrastructure company founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, headquartered in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland. Stripe was born from the insight that accepting payments online was unnecessarily complex for developers, and that a well-designed API could unlock an entire generation of internet businesses. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2010 batch and grew to become the defining payments infrastructure layer of the modern internet economy, processing payments for businesses in virtually every industry worldwide.\n\nStripe's platform provides payment processing, fraud prevention via Stripe Radar, subscription billing, revenue recognition, banking-as-a-service through Stripe Treasury, corporate card issuance, identity verification, and tax compliance tools. It serves a spectrum from early-stage startups to publicly traded enterprises including Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Shopify. Stripe's developer-first philosophy — comprehensive documentation, SDKs in every major language, and a sandbox testing environment — created an ecosystem of millions of businesses built entirely on its infrastructure.\n\nStripe processed $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024 and generates over $18 billion in annual revenue, with a valuation of $106.7 billion as of September 2025. The company has remained private longer than most comparably sized technology companies, giving it flexibility to invest in long-term product expansion. An April 2024 partnership with Apple Pay extended Stripe's reach further into mobile and in-store commerce. Stripe competes with Adyen, Braintree (PayPal), and Square, but its developer ecosystem depth and global infrastructure make it the default payments platform for a generation of technology companies.
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