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Taxnova

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Founded2025
5Employees

Located in San Francisco, California

taxnova.ai
AIEnterprise SaaS

AI infrastructure to run R&D tax claims and CapEx

Taxnova turns the engineering data you already have — Jira, GitHub, technical docs, Slack — into review-ready, evidence-backed R&D tax and CapEx documentation. We don't replace your tax advisor; we do the heavy lifting continuously throughout the year before they touch the claim. No engineer interviews, no annual reconstruction scramble — contemporaneous, source-linked evidence built to stand up to IRS/CRA/HMRC scrutiny, surfacing qualifying work that gets missed. Live in the US/UK/FR/CA, with clients like Paddle and incident.io and backed by finance professionals like ex-Twilio CFO and Kraken's Head of Tax.

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Meet the Team

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CEO & CFO at Taxnova

George Nichkov

Founder of Taxnova — helping engineering teams focus on R&D, not R&D tax. Taxnova bridges the worlds of finance and engineering which is perfect reflection of my background: education in economics & finance (UCL, CFA) and career in B2B product, analytics, and consulting (Gett, Oliver Wyman).

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CTO at Taxnova

Maria Malykh

Hi there! I'm Maria, I'm passionate about saving engineers' time and turning messy unstructured data into insights. Both combine perfectly in what we are doing at Taxnova. I'm an avid traveller — ask me about South America, Asia and Siberia. not easy to combine that with startups, but I'm trying!