- ScaleFactor, an intelligent finance and automated accounting platform, announced it raised $60 million in Series C funding
ScaleFactor — the intelligent finance and automated accounting platform — announced it raised a $60 million Series C funding round led by Coatue. Including this round, ScaleFactor has raised a total of $100 million this past year.
This round of funding includes returning investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Canaan, Broadhaven Ventures, and Firebrand Ventures as well as new investors including Vulcan, Stripes Group, and NextPlay Capital, among other prominent angel investors. Prior investors include Citi Ventures, Flyover Capital, and several others.
ScaleFactor’s online financial software empowers small- and mid-size businesses (SMB) by streamlining and automating back-office tasks. From bookkeeping to payroll, ScaleFactor offers a built-in cadence to business operations, giving owners access to tools and insights previously only available to enterprise companies.
The funding round will allow the company to expand its ‘business OS’ capabilities and offer new solutions to SMBs firmly establishing ScaleFactor as the foundational platform for SMB operations.
“Listening closely to our customers over the years, we’ve learned small business owners care about three factors above everything else: saving time, saving money and scaling their businesses,” said ScaleFactor founder and CEO Kurt Rathmann, CPA. “ScaleFactor has taken our collective experience and focused our entire model on addressing these needs directly to empower SMBs with technology and services that were formerly only available for large enterprises. We are excited to add Coatue and all of our new investors to the ScaleFactor family.”
The ScaleFactor platform taps into the often-overlooked SMB market and provides technology and insights traditionally reserved for large businesses and enterprises. With a team of SMB experts at the helm of ScaleFactor, the company has created an intuitive business OS — which offers automated back-office solutions for bookkeeping, payroll and other financial and business processes.
“ScaleFactor is building the most comprehensive financial SaaS platform on the market for SMBs,” said Thomas Laffont, Coatue’s co-founder. “ScaleFactor is the back-office connection point that simply makes it easier to run a business. We are very pleased to invest in and support ScaleFactor on their path toward market leadership in the fintech sector.”
In the coming year, ScaleFactor plans to revolutionize how SMBs access capital by offering financial resources that are often inaccessible to businesses of their size.
“We are proud to have identified Kurt’s leadership skills and determination to build ScaleFactor into the leader in intelligent finance from an early stage,” added Bessemer Venture Partners partner Byron Deeter. “This company is a rocket ship of growth and has also managed to build a culture that empowers both its employees and its customers — a rare achievement in today’s market.”
By consolidating all financial data into one single easy-to-use platform, SMB owners have a complete and transparent view of their finances in real-time and are empowered to establish consistent financial habits. And SMB owners using ScaleFactor’s accounting software can strategically utilize financial data to drive decision-making in real-time, which results in time savings and increased accuracy.
“ScaleFactor is providing small businesses with an operating system that was previously only available to large enterprises,” explained Canaan partner Michael B. Gilroy. “We are at an inflection point in time where SaaS is creating a level playing field for SMBs which previously had to resort to manual tasks via redundant hires. This is the future of fintech and we are thrilled to be a part of the ScaleFactor family since the Series A.”
Coatue is going to gain a board seat in conjunction with leading the round. And this round of funding follows a number of recent initiatives including ScaleFactor’s release of its inaugural State of SMB Finance Report and national expansion into Denver.
