Tax Credits
Fondo helps startups identify, calculate, and claim R&D tax credits — and applies them correctly to your payroll and tax filings.
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If you’re building software, hardware, or AI, you may be eligible for up to $500,000 per year in R&D tax credits — even if you’re pre-revenue.
Pre-revenue, bootstrapped, or VC-backed — you don’t need profits to qualify.
Apply credits directly to payroll taxes and improve cash flow this year.
Built by CPAs. Defensible documentation. Calculated, documented, and filed by Fondo's expert accountants.
We identify eligible R&D, calculate the credit, file the forms, and apply it correctly to payroll and tax returns.
End-to-end R&D tax credit support — from eligibility to filing to cash in hand.
Your R&D tax credits are handled by experienced CPAs who specialize in startups. We review your activities, calculate qualified expenses, and prepare defensible claims — not automated estimates or generic templates.
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Answer a few guided questions about your product and team. We do the heavy lifting — reviewing payroll, expenses, and prior filings — without interrupting your day-to-day work.
We don’t just calculate the credit — we apply it correctly. Fondo files Form 6765 and applies the credit to your payroll taxes or corporate return so you actually receive the benefit.
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Bookkeeping, corporate taxes, and R&D tax credits — handled by accounting experts, on one platform.
Fondo keeps your books accurate and up to date with monthly, quarterly, or annual closes. Transactions are reconciled, reviewed by expert accountants, and turned into investor-ready financials — without spreadsheets or back-and-forth.
We prepare and file your federal, state, and local corporate tax returns — including Delaware Franchise Tax — using the same books we manage year-round. No handoffs, no surprises, no last-minute scrambles.
Fondo helps startups identify, calculate, and claim R&D tax credits — and applies them correctly to your payroll and tax filings. You get the benefit without hiring a separate specialist or managing complex filings.
A modern accounting platform vs. legacy approaches.
Thousands of founders use Fondo to remove the stress of accounting and get back to building.
Only regret: why didn't I get Fondo sooner :)
Fondo has been great! Super easy to work with.
The Fondo team were great & support communicative through the process!
Great experience so far. We have a complex setup and they have way outperformed the previous two solutions we had tried out. Strongly recommend.
Fondo is the best and has been a huge upgrade over our previous bookkeepers :)
Wanted to shout out a company having a strong impact on my stress as a founder and CEO - Fondo y'all are killing it 🙏
Fantastic team, they got us set up super quickly. Very happy with Fondo.
Big fan of Fondo...was one of their first customers!!
Amazing product and service.
Fondo is a team of rockstars. They make everything look easy - from onboarding to the actual bookkeeping. Very resourceful and helpful including sorting admin things out like entity registration etc. Highly recommended!!
Fondo is incredible. On-boarding experience was seamless - less than 15mins. Pumped to have everything off our plate. Very affordable for the level of service (dedicated slack channel) and amount of work they do.
Fondo really helped get taxes done, an excellent asset for founders who are spread thin!
Makes life easy, including for more complex structures like telemedicine (where we need different entities).
Super helpful and hands on help!
Absolutely love the service!! David and the team rock!!
Great experience -- the team is super helpful!
They made my life so easy - def reccomended
Super easy to use. Love Fondo!
Fondo is incredible, they make a founder's job really easy until you get a dedicated Ops team member.
Fondo made taking care of my taxes painless... or at least as painless as taxes can get
Incredible service by the Fondo team! They have built out a process that makes it relatively hands-off for you to file taxes and stay in compliance.
Great team, service and support.
Fantastic team that is extremely responsive! The Fondo team provides personalized attention and makes the onboarding experience seamless. Highly recommend.
Fondo has been great and helped us complete our 409a quickly!
Helped us keeping quickbooks organized, filed taxes, and got us a lot of R&D credits: all with ~1 hour of work from my side (setting up users in quickbooks and rippling for them and sending some previous year docs).
Fondo has been managing our accounting and Tax! They are so so so good with the process that I feel like I have a full finance team on autopilot!!! Team is also extremely responsive!! ❤️
As a technical startup CEO I have 30 different jobs and am completely overwhelmed all of the time. Using Fondo means that I don't have to think about bookkeeping or taxes which means I only have 29 other jobs to worry about. The team has been very helpful getting us set up with QuickBooks and handling all of our tax reporting. Highly recommended to other stressed founders!
Team is fantastic and responsive, feel safe knowing they have my accounting and taxes handled.
Very responsive and user friendly. Thank you for making my start-up life easier.
Best tax season I’ve ever had since I became an accountant!! thanks to my friends from Fondo 😁🔥
Fondo is amazing. They are responsive and have our best interest in mind. They will walk us through anything we need. Highly recommend.
Great experience! Loving Fondo, David and the team.
Fondo is very good at efficiently asking for what they need and then getting out of your way so you can build. Very thoughtful and founder-oriented service, highly recommend
The team at Fondo is great! They're super helpful, responsive, and take care of a ton of tax/accounting work. Highly recommend.
It has been refreshing to work with the team, after struggling with other platforms and accountants in the past. Thanks Fondo!
Fondo always have fast and helpful customer support and service.
Huge fan of Fondo. They just get startups. They've been handling our US business and know how to work with our UK child company accountant too.
Fondo is incredibly helpful to take a lot of work off a founders plate and is easy to work with.
Super efficient! Really enjoyed working with the Fondo team! Highly recommend!
They are extremely fast and it's great!
Fondo feels like part of our team. I love how they make sure we never miss a thing and stay on us to move forward. I can't recommend them enough.
Really great team - easy onboarding and lots of value and saved time for us.
Super helpful for DE Franchise Tax- highly recommend!
Had an amazing experience - worked with Ali, Diane, David, and Kayvon. Super responsive and knowledgeable. Strongly recommend!
I was doing accounting and taxes myself before Fondo. I decided to check out Fondo and others and see which one was right for me. Others quoted me multiples of what Fondo priced me at. Decided to give them a go and am glad I did. Nice to have communicative professionals handling table stakes tasks like my income statement, balance sheet, and tax reporting at the state/national level.
Fondo are rockstars! The only company that knows how to deal with international startups.
Love using Fondo! One of the best services we use - they are super responsive and helpful.
Amazing product and service. Would definitely recommend. Saves me so many accounting headaches, so I can focus totally on just building product. Dave and the Fondo team rock!!!!
Customer and #1 fan. This was actually a previous issue from before we partnered with them.
Fondo is fantastic!
No question, make your life easier with Fondo! Effortless and efficient, helpful to keep you on top of IRS filings. Highly recommended
Awesome team & great product!
Highly recommend Fondo for all business taxes. We used them last year and are using them for 2024 as well. David and team is a breath of fresh air when it comes to simplifying the maze of corporate taxes for startup founders.
Love the Fondo team. Completely handles all my accounting/tax needs.
Fondo was a life safer for us as a foreign company who had no idea how to manage accounting for DE entity.
Highly recommend! Fondo has saved us a lot of time. They are extremely founder friendly and very responsive.
We've been using Fondo since the very beginning of Trayd. The team is super knowledgeable and always willing to help us navigate any/all tax-related questions. Would recommend to anyone seeking this support.
Fondo is the best!
I absolutely love the team and the product! Super responsive and truly an A+ experience. Highly recommend using Fondo for your bookkeeping and taxes.
Competent and reactive team! And great deal.
Our team at Fondo goes above and beyond for us. Truly a reliable partner for Kiwi.
Great experience.
Loved working with Fondo! Great group.
Taxes and accounting can be such a black-box, but Fondo were incredibly patient with all my questions and explained everything extremely thoroughly and simply. The team is super responsive too; we have numerous people we can contact at any time through our shared Slack channel. We love being Fondo customers!
Super easy to use - great product!
Loving Fondo so far! 10x better than my previous accountant experience.
Friendly, fast and efficient!
Great product and team. Super easy to setup and very responsive. Would highly recommend using them.
Only regret: why didn't I get Fondo sooner :)
Fondo has been great! Super easy to work with.
The Fondo team were great & support communicative through the process!
Great experience so far. We have a complex setup and they have way outperformed the previous two solutions we had tried out. Strongly recommend.
Fondo is the best and has been a huge upgrade over our previous bookkeepers :)
Wanted to shout out a company having a strong impact on my stress as a founder and CEO - Fondo y'all are killing it 🙏
Fantastic team, they got us set up super quickly. Very happy with Fondo.
Big fan of Fondo...was one of their first customers!!
Amazing product and service.
Fondo is a team of rockstars. They make everything look easy - from onboarding to the actual bookkeeping. Very resourceful and helpful including sorting admin things out like entity registration etc. Highly recommended!!
Fondo is incredible. On-boarding experience was seamless - less than 15mins. Pumped to have everything off our plate. Very affordable for the level of service (dedicated slack channel) and amount of work they do.
Fondo really helped get taxes done, an excellent asset for founders who are spread thin!
Makes life easy, including for more complex structures like telemedicine (where we need different entities).
Super helpful and hands on help!
Absolutely love the service!! David and the team rock!!
Great experience -- the team is super helpful!
They made my life so easy - def reccomended
Super easy to use. Love Fondo!
Fondo is incredible, they make a founder's job really easy until you get a dedicated Ops team member.
Fondo made taking care of my taxes painless... or at least as painless as taxes can get
Incredible service by the Fondo team! They have built out a process that makes it relatively hands-off for you to file taxes and stay in compliance.
Great team, service and support.
Fantastic team that is extremely responsive! The Fondo team provides personalized attention and makes the onboarding experience seamless. Highly recommend.
Fondo has been great and helped us complete our 409a quickly!
Helped us keeping quickbooks organized, filed taxes, and got us a lot of R&D credits: all with ~1 hour of work from my side (setting up users in quickbooks and rippling for them and sending some previous year docs).
Fondo has been managing our accounting and Tax! They are so so so good with the process that I feel like I have a full finance team on autopilot!!! Team is also extremely responsive!! ❤️
As a technical startup CEO I have 30 different jobs and am completely overwhelmed all of the time. Using Fondo means that I don't have to think about bookkeeping or taxes which means I only have 29 other jobs to worry about. The team has been very helpful getting us set up with QuickBooks and handling all of our tax reporting. Highly recommended to other stressed founders!
Team is fantastic and responsive, feel safe knowing they have my accounting and taxes handled.
Very responsive and user friendly. Thank you for making my start-up life easier.
Best tax season I’ve ever had since I became an accountant!! thanks to my friends from Fondo 😁🔥
Fondo is amazing. They are responsive and have our best interest in mind. They will walk us through anything we need. Highly recommend.
Great experience! Loving Fondo, David and the team.
Fondo is very good at efficiently asking for what they need and then getting out of your way so you can build. Very thoughtful and founder-oriented service, highly recommend
The team at Fondo is great! They're super helpful, responsive, and take care of a ton of tax/accounting work. Highly recommend.
It has been refreshing to work with the team, after struggling with other platforms and accountants in the past. Thanks Fondo!
Fondo always have fast and helpful customer support and service.
Huge fan of Fondo. They just get startups. They've been handling our US business and know how to work with our UK child company accountant too.
Fondo is incredibly helpful to take a lot of work off a founders plate and is easy to work with.
Super efficient! Really enjoyed working with the Fondo team! Highly recommend!
They are extremely fast and it's great!
Fondo feels like part of our team. I love how they make sure we never miss a thing and stay on us to move forward. I can't recommend them enough.
Really great team - easy onboarding and lots of value and saved time for us.
Super helpful for DE Franchise Tax- highly recommend!
Had an amazing experience - worked with Ali, Diane, David, and Kayvon. Super responsive and knowledgeable. Strongly recommend!
I was doing accounting and taxes myself before Fondo. I decided to check out Fondo and others and see which one was right for me. Others quoted me multiples of what Fondo priced me at. Decided to give them a go and am glad I did. Nice to have communicative professionals handling table stakes tasks like my income statement, balance sheet, and tax reporting at the state/national level.
Fondo are rockstars! The only company that knows how to deal with international startups.
Love using Fondo! One of the best services we use - they are super responsive and helpful.
Amazing product and service. Would definitely recommend. Saves me so many accounting headaches, so I can focus totally on just building product. Dave and the Fondo team rock!!!!
Customer and #1 fan. This was actually a previous issue from before we partnered with them.
Fondo is fantastic!
No question, make your life easier with Fondo! Effortless and efficient, helpful to keep you on top of IRS filings. Highly recommended
Awesome team & great product!
Highly recommend Fondo for all business taxes. We used them last year and are using them for 2024 as well. David and team is a breath of fresh air when it comes to simplifying the maze of corporate taxes for startup founders.
Love the Fondo team. Completely handles all my accounting/tax needs.
Fondo was a life safer for us as a foreign company who had no idea how to manage accounting for DE entity.
Highly recommend! Fondo has saved us a lot of time. They are extremely founder friendly and very responsive.
We've been using Fondo since the very beginning of Trayd. The team is super knowledgeable and always willing to help us navigate any/all tax-related questions. Would recommend to anyone seeking this support.
Fondo is the best!
I absolutely love the team and the product! Super responsive and truly an A+ experience. Highly recommend using Fondo for your bookkeeping and taxes.
Competent and reactive team! And great deal.
Our team at Fondo goes above and beyond for us. Truly a reliable partner for Kiwi.
Great experience.
Loved working with Fondo! Great group.
Taxes and accounting can be such a black-box, but Fondo were incredibly patient with all my questions and explained everything extremely thoroughly and simply. The team is super responsive too; we have numerous people we can contact at any time through our shared Slack channel. We love being Fondo customers!
Super easy to use - great product!
Loving Fondo so far! 10x better than my previous accountant experience.
Friendly, fast and efficient!
Great product and team. Super easy to setup and very responsive. Would highly recommend using them.
Only regret: why didn't I get Fondo sooner :)
Fondo has been great! Super easy to work with.
The Fondo team were great & support communicative through the process!
Great experience so far. We have a complex setup and they have way outperformed the previous two solutions we had tried out. Strongly recommend.
Fondo is the best and has been a huge upgrade over our previous bookkeepers :)
Wanted to shout out a company having a strong impact on my stress as a founder and CEO - Fondo y'all are killing it 🙏
Fantastic team, they got us set up super quickly. Very happy with Fondo.
Big fan of Fondo...was one of their first customers!!
Amazing product and service.
Fondo is a team of rockstars. They make everything look easy - from onboarding to the actual bookkeeping. Very resourceful and helpful including sorting admin things out like entity registration etc. Highly recommended!!
Fondo is incredible. On-boarding experience was seamless - less than 15mins. Pumped to have everything off our plate. Very affordable for the level of service (dedicated slack channel) and amount of work they do.
Fondo really helped get taxes done, an excellent asset for founders who are spread thin!
Makes life easy, including for more complex structures like telemedicine (where we need different entities).
Super helpful and hands on help!
Absolutely love the service!! David and the team rock!!
Great experience -- the team is super helpful!
They made my life so easy - def reccomended
Super easy to use. Love Fondo!
Fondo is incredible, they make a founder's job really easy until you get a dedicated Ops team member.
Fondo made taking care of my taxes painless... or at least as painless as taxes can get
Incredible service by the Fondo team! They have built out a process that makes it relatively hands-off for you to file taxes and stay in compliance.
Great team, service and support.
Fantastic team that is extremely responsive! The Fondo team provides personalized attention and makes the onboarding experience seamless. Highly recommend.
Fondo has been great and helped us complete our 409a quickly!
Helped us keeping quickbooks organized, filed taxes, and got us a lot of R&D credits: all with ~1 hour of work from my side (setting up users in quickbooks and rippling for them and sending some previous year docs).
Fondo has been managing our accounting and Tax! They are so so so good with the process that I feel like I have a full finance team on autopilot!!! Team is also extremely responsive!! ❤️
As a technical startup CEO I have 30 different jobs and am completely overwhelmed all of the time. Using Fondo means that I don't have to think about bookkeeping or taxes which means I only have 29 other jobs to worry about. The team has been very helpful getting us set up with QuickBooks and handling all of our tax reporting. Highly recommended to other stressed founders!
Team is fantastic and responsive, feel safe knowing they have my accounting and taxes handled.
Very responsive and user friendly. Thank you for making my start-up life easier.
Best tax season I’ve ever had since I became an accountant!! thanks to my friends from Fondo 😁🔥
Fondo is amazing. They are responsive and have our best interest in mind. They will walk us through anything we need. Highly recommend.
Great experience! Loving Fondo, David and the team.
Fondo is very good at efficiently asking for what they need and then getting out of your way so you can build. Very thoughtful and founder-oriented service, highly recommend
The team at Fondo is great! They're super helpful, responsive, and take care of a ton of tax/accounting work. Highly recommend.
It has been refreshing to work with the team, after struggling with other platforms and accountants in the past. Thanks Fondo!
Fondo always have fast and helpful customer support and service.
Huge fan of Fondo. They just get startups. They've been handling our US business and know how to work with our UK child company accountant too.
Fondo is incredibly helpful to take a lot of work off a founders plate and is easy to work with.
Super efficient! Really enjoyed working with the Fondo team! Highly recommend!
They are extremely fast and it's great!
Fondo feels like part of our team. I love how they make sure we never miss a thing and stay on us to move forward. I can't recommend them enough.
Really great team - easy onboarding and lots of value and saved time for us.
Super helpful for DE Franchise Tax- highly recommend!
Had an amazing experience - worked with Ali, Diane, David, and Kayvon. Super responsive and knowledgeable. Strongly recommend!
I was doing accounting and taxes myself before Fondo. I decided to check out Fondo and others and see which one was right for me. Others quoted me multiples of what Fondo priced me at. Decided to give them a go and am glad I did. Nice to have communicative professionals handling table stakes tasks like my income statement, balance sheet, and tax reporting at the state/national level.
Fondo are rockstars! The only company that knows how to deal with international startups.
Love using Fondo! One of the best services we use - they are super responsive and helpful.
Amazing product and service. Would definitely recommend. Saves me so many accounting headaches, so I can focus totally on just building product. Dave and the Fondo team rock!!!!
Customer and #1 fan. This was actually a previous issue from before we partnered with them.
Fondo is fantastic!
No question, make your life easier with Fondo! Effortless and efficient, helpful to keep you on top of IRS filings. Highly recommended
Awesome team & great product!
Highly recommend Fondo for all business taxes. We used them last year and are using them for 2024 as well. David and team is a breath of fresh air when it comes to simplifying the maze of corporate taxes for startup founders.
Love the Fondo team. Completely handles all my accounting/tax needs.
Fondo was a life safer for us as a foreign company who had no idea how to manage accounting for DE entity.
Highly recommend! Fondo has saved us a lot of time. They are extremely founder friendly and very responsive.
We've been using Fondo since the very beginning of Trayd. The team is super knowledgeable and always willing to help us navigate any/all tax-related questions. Would recommend to anyone seeking this support.
Fondo is the best!
I absolutely love the team and the product! Super responsive and truly an A+ experience. Highly recommend using Fondo for your bookkeeping and taxes.
Competent and reactive team! And great deal.
Our team at Fondo goes above and beyond for us. Truly a reliable partner for Kiwi.
Great experience.
Loved working with Fondo! Great group.
Taxes and accounting can be such a black-box, but Fondo were incredibly patient with all my questions and explained everything extremely thoroughly and simply. The team is super responsive too; we have numerous people we can contact at any time through our shared Slack channel. We love being Fondo customers!
Super easy to use - great product!
Loving Fondo so far! 10x better than my previous accountant experience.
Friendly, fast and efficient!
Great product and team. Super easy to setup and very responsive. Would highly recommend using them.
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If you have more questions or need further assistance, we’re here to help!
Most founders finish setup in under 15 minutes.You connect your bank, payroll, and accounting tools, choose your bookkeeping cadence, and Fondo takes it from there.
Yes — but not necessarily every month. Fondo offers monthly, quarterly, or annual bookkeeping, depending on your stage.
We’ll close your books on that schedule so you get clean, finalized financials when you actually need them — without unnecessary overhead. You can always change your cadence as your startup grows.
Fondo is built specifically for Delaware C-Corp startups, including:
• Pre-seed to Series B
• VC-backed or bootstrapped
• US and International founders
If you’re a startup planning to raise, scale, or stay compliant, Fondo is a fit.
Bookkeeping includes:
• transaction categorization
• account reconciliation
• closed financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, runway)
• support from real accountants
Your books are clean, accurate, and investor-ready.
Fondo handles your Delaware, federal and state tax filings and deadlines through TaxPass.
We don’t just remind you — we prepare, file, and confirm everything so nothing gets missed.
Yes.We identify eligibility, calculate the credit, file the paperwork, and make sure the credit is actually applied so you get the cash benefit.
Many startups miss this. Fondo makes sure you don’t.
Both.
You get real, experienced startup accounting experts paired with Fondo’s software.
Software handles the busywork. Accountants handle judgment, review, and edge cases.That’s the Fondo difference.
Traditional firms rely on email, spreadsheets, and manual processes.
Fondo combines automation with dedicated accountants so:
• things move faster
• fewer mistakes happen
• nothing slips through the cracks
You get modern software and real expertise.
Yes.
Fondo uses industry-standard security practices, encryption, and access controls to protect your financial data. Your information stays private and secure.
Fondo scales with you.You can change bookkeeping frequency, add services, and support more complexity as your company grows — without switching providers.
Built for Delaware C-Corps. Trusted by 1,000+ startups.
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