Bench Accounting

Business model

Bookkeeping and accounting software for small businesses, pairing automated software with dedicated human bookkeepers.

In brief

One of the earliest companies to pair cloud-based bookkeeping software with real human bookkeepers, growing to serve tens of thousands of small businesses and partnering with Shopify. The company spent heavily on customer acquisition and unsustainably low pricing without reaching…

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