London full time on-site

Who we are

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At TaxNova, we are reimagining how innovation gets funded. We’re building the AI infrastructure layer for global innovation incentives, starting with R&D tax relief — think Vanta for innovation funding.

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Every year, governments return billions to companies investing in R&D. But for 20+ years, the process has been stuck in an archaic, manual world: endless interviews, scattered docs, slow advisors, and stressful audits.

TaxNova is changing that.

We connect directly to engineering tools like GitHub, Jira, Slack, Google Docs ⁠and turn scattered company data into a ready-for-review, maximised R&D claim in days, not months — 10x faster than the traditional process, across countries.

Why TaxNova?

• Impact: We free engineers and finance teams from tedious paperwork — and help innovative companies get the funding they deserve.
• Hard technical problem: transform messy, unstructured data from dozens of sources into structured, defensible evidence — at scale, with LLMs, and without losing accuracy.
• Fast execution: from idea to paying customers and a $1M pre-seed in under 8 months.
• Trusted by top innovative tech companies: already working with Incident.io, causaLens, and piloting with a Top5 UK R&D advisory firm.
• Strong backers: $1M pre-seed from top-tier VCs and CTOs/CFOs from leading tech companies (to be announced soon!)

👋 Meet the founders

Founding Engineer role

Be the FIRST engineering hire to join the founding team.

You'll work directly with the founders, shape the product roadmap, and build across the full stack. This is a generalist role with an AI at the centre.

In the next 12 months, your work will determine:

• How we ingest and structure millions of data points from systems like Linear/GitHub/Slack
• How we convert tacit domain knowledge into LLM-driven logic