Tabula

Tabula is a Berlin-based startup building AI-powered accounting software for the German market, founded to address what its founders describe as an acute, structural shortage of skilled accountants in Germany — the company cites that roughly half of German tax advisory firms (Steuerkanzleien) have unfilled positions and are regularly forced to turn away new clients due to capacity constraints. The company's underlying legal entity, Tabula GmbH (HRB 263614 B, Amtsgericht Charlottenburg/Berlin), was registered on May 7, 2024 under the name 'Skipper Technologies UG' and renamed to 'Tabula GmbH' on May 28, 2024, the same day a fourth managing director, Leonard von Kleist, was added (he was later removed as managing director on July 16, 2026, alongside a capital increase from €10,000 to €25,000). The company was originally branded 'Tabular' — reflected in its LinkedIn handle 'tabular-yc-24' and its original contact address founders@gotabular.de — before rebranding to Tabula.

The company was co-founded by three Berlin-based operators with backgrounds at German fintech unicorns: Tim Hermes, who built and scaled expert/accountant-facing software at tax-filing unicorn Taxfix (taking a product line from zero to multiple millions in ARR within 12 months) and holds an economics degree from UC Berkeley and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Markus Jungnickel, a computer scientist and former lawyer with a Law & Business degree from Cambridge and an MSc in Computing Science from Imperial College London, who previously helped launch financial services products at neobroker Trade Republic (backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund and Creandum); and Kilian Justus, a product manager who launched Taxfix's tax-filing product in international markets and was employee #1 at AI studio genova.ai, with education at Williams College and Oxford. The broader founding team (about a dozen people as of mid-2026) includes machine-learning engineers from Amazon and Aleph Alpha, an MIT PhD, software/engineering staff from Taxfix, trivago and logistics startup Forto, and go-to-market hires from Roland Berger and Bain & Company.

Tabula went through Y Combinator's Summer 2024 (S24) batch. It has raised a $4.7 million seed round backed by Y Combinator, London-based early-stage VC LocalGlobe, Rerail, and Berlin-based venture builder/VC Project A — per the company's own careers page and confirmed independently by Project A's public portfolio listing (which categorizes Tabula under 'Finance,' headquartered in Berlin, with an entry stage of 'Pre-Seed'; Project A's page anomalously lists a 2021 founding year, which conflicts with the 2024 German commercial-register founding date and appears to be a data error on Project A's site). No independent press coverage, Crunchbase profile, or funding announcement article was located confirming the exact date, structure, or full investor list of this seed round beyond what Tabula and Project A disclose themselves — a reflection of the company's still-limited public/press footprint as a young, seed-stage startup.

Business model

B2B SaaS sold to German tax advisory firms (Steuerkanzleien) and directly to SMEs; positioned as an add-on/autopilot layer that integrates with firms' existing accounting software (DATEV interface partner) rather than replacing it.

Subscription software fees (SaaS), sold to accounting/tax-advisory firms and to businesses directly; pricing not publicly disclosed.