Avalara

Avalara is the provider of tax compliance automation software. The company provides a service-based platform for tax automation and automation effort for financial, electronic commerce, POS and mobility applications for businesses.

Avalara’s customers face demanding tax obligations imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities around the world, and rely on Avalara to provide efficient and accurate solutions to manage those requirements.

Avalara was founded in 2004 by Jared Vogt, Rory Rawlings & Scott McFarlane. The company is headquartred in Seattle, Washington with offices across the U.S. and around the world in the U.K., Belgium, Brazil, and India.

 

Avalara provides solutions for various transactional taxes, including sales and use, VAT, excise, communications, and others. Each year, Avalara serves customers by processing billions of tax transactions, filing more than a million transaction tax returns, and managing millions of tax exemption certificates and other compliance documents.

 

Avalara plugs into the systems and solutions you already use, with more than 700 prebuilt connections into ERP, ecommerce, and other applications, plus an advanced API.

 

Avalara is backed by leading investors such as Battery Ventures, TCV, Warburg Pincus, Sageview Capital and others.

 

 

  • Year founded: 2004
  • Funding Info: $340.9M in 9 Funding Rounds (Last Funding Type: Series D)- Avalara went public on Jun 12, 2018 and had raised $157.5M at IPO.
  • Yearly Revenue: $272M (2018)
  • Employee Size: 1,001-5,000
  • Business Valuation: Valued at IPO: $1.4B (Jun 12, 2018)/ Mkt Cap: $5.30B as of Jun 7, 2019
  • City/Town: Seattle
  • State: Washington
  • Country: United States
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