Investor-ready books before you need them, not during diligence.
Remote bookkeeping — monthly close, cleanup, and books ready for your CPA.
Startups run on a spreadsheet until a diligence request arrives, and then discover that revenue recognition, deferred revenue, and equity transactions were never recorded in a way anyone can verify.
Annual prepayments spread across the term they cover.
Cash-flow reporting your board and investors expect.
SAFEs, notes, and option activity captured as they happen.
Books that survive a data-room request without a rebuild.
Startups & Tech is a broad category, and the bookkeeping differs meaningfully between the trades inside it. Here is what actually changes, trade by trade — each is handled under this service rather than as a separate engagement.
A marketplace collects the full transaction value and keeps a take rate, so recording gross as revenue overstates the business by an order of magnitude — the distinction between principal and agent is the single most consequential accounting decision a marketplace makes and investors will ask about it directly. Funds held for sellers are a liability, and payout timing creates a float that must never be treated as working capital.
Fintech businesses frequently hold or move customer funds, which makes the separation between company money and customer money the defining control rather than a nicety. Interchange, processing costs, and revenue share with sponsors need recording gross so unit economics are visible. Reserves held against chargeback and fraud exposure are a real liability that should be estimated rather than discovered.
Research-stage companies spend years before revenue, so the books exist primarily for investors, grantors, and diligence rather than for profitability. Grant funding carries reporting obligations and restrictions on how money may be spent, which means expenditure needs tracking against the award it was funded by. Lab equipment, materials, and contracted research organisations are the main cost categories and belong separated from general operating expense.
Hardware brings inventory, tooling, and long supplier lead times into a company that otherwise operates like software. Deposits paid to manufacturers are assets, not expenses; tooling is capitalised; and pre-orders collected from customers are a liability until units ship — a distinction that matters enormously to a company funding production from pre-order cash. Landed cost, including freight and duty, belongs in inventory.
A services business building a product needs both tracked separately from the first day, or the product’s real cost is permanently hidden inside agency payroll. That means allocating engineering time between client work and product development on a defensible basis, and reporting the two as distinct segments. Investors and acquirers will ask for exactly this split, and reconstructing it retrospectively is rarely convincing.
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Categorization, reconciliation, month-end close, and clean financial statements — with nothing left for you to chase.
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