Accounting
Canopy Receives Addition Funding, Brings Latest Round to $42 Million
The ever-changing laws and complex processes impacting tax and accounting professionals necessitate effective and timely solutions to reduce the intense workload in the industry. Canopy constantly evaluates feedback from customers and closely monitors ...
May. 16, 2018
Cloud practice management provider Canopy has received an addition to their latest funding round led by NEA. The latest capital investment, provided by Tenaya Capital and Nyca Partners, brings the total funding for this round to $42 million, which Canopy says it will use to continue building its tax practice efficiency suite for professional firms.
“We have seen significant demand from both the investor community and customers to offer a better solution than what is currently available in the market,” said Kurt Avarell, Canopy founder and CEO. “Tenaya and Nyca have an impressive track record of helping visionary companies transform industries. That’s why we were happy to open up the round to these two strategic partners. This additional funding further validates that our value proposition and solutions are making a real impact for both our customers and the industry as a whole.”
The ever-changing laws and complex processes impacting tax and accounting professionals necessitate effective and timely solutions to reduce the intense workload in the industry. Canopy constantly evaluates feedback from customers and closely monitors new changes to industry regulations to develop new features that make tax and accounting work simpler, faster, and more profitable. This additional funding will go directly into executing across the company’s pipeline of product updates planned for 2018.
“Canopy has very impressive momentum,” said Hans Morris, Managing Partner of Nyca. “Accounting and tax firms rave about the software – which is a rare thing to hear – and the pipeline of product releases and feature enhancements will only increase the excitement. We think Canopy could become the category-defining company.”
This additional funding follows recent company highlights including:
- Recognized as top 3 highest rated private cloud companies to work for by Battery Ventures and Glassdoor
- Wells Fargo Strategic Capital joins as a partner in March 2018
- Canopy’s Notices solution launched in May 2018, enabling tax and accounting professionals to research, respond, and resolve IRS issues for their clients
- Canopy surpasses 5,000 users, servicing more than 1 million taxpayers
“With the complex and often times cumbersome nature of tax and accounting work, modernization is imperative in this industry,” said Stewart Gollmer, Managing Director at Tenaya Capital. “Canopy has done a stellar job of pinpointing the challenges faced by tax practitioners and providing the meticulously designed solutions to remedy them. We are thrilled to join Canopy in the effort to bring ease and fluidity to a historically heavy and complicated system.”