Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Collective is a San Francisco fintech and tech-enabled professional-services company that provides an all-in-one financial back office for solopreneurs. Its platform combines business formation, bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, tax preparation, compliance support, invoicing, and expert advisor assistance.
Primary product
An all-in-one financial platform for self-employed entrepreneurs, including LLC/S-Corp formation, bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, tax filing, compliance, invoicing, and financial reporting.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
555 Mission Street, San Francisco, California 94106, United States
Team size
150-200
Work style
Remote
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
Fintech; accounting, tax, payroll, and back-office services for solopreneurs
Offices
Business model
Stage
Venture-backed; latest publicly reported round was a 2023 venture round
Total raised
$82M
Latest round
Venture round · Jul 2023
Latest amount
$50M
Jul 2023 · Gradient Ventures, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures
May 2021 · General Catalyst
Sep 2020 · General Catalyst
Mar 2020
Leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Paul Vidal
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Vianney de Drouas
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product
Co-Founder; former Chief Product Officer; current Board Member
Jeff Barlam
Chief Financial Officer
Nick Knight
VP of Sales and Marketing
Kevin Sheehan
Head of Growth
Rachel Ergmann
Head of Talent
Aaron Sutter
Director of Security, Infrastructure and IT
Andrew Vaquerano
Director of Tax
Mitchell Oldenburg
Director of Accounting and Bookkeeping Operations
Aaron Mamelak
Head of Strategic Operations
Anirudh Mallem
Director of Engineering, Applied AI
Founders
Bugra Akcay
Co-Founder and former CTO
Collective describes its culture as service-oriented, member-focused, collaborative, energetic, and purpose-driven. Its careers materials emphasize leading through service, trust, teamwork, ownership, and making work fun and easy. Public employment sources describe the company as remote-first or fully remote, with distributed employees and periodic in-person summits.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No reliable public salary bands or equity details were found in the reviewed sources. Collective’s customer product includes an IRS-oriented reasonable-compensation calculator for S-Corp owners, but that is not employee compensation data.
Benefits
Pricing
Subscription pricing. The current public pricing page lists an LLC tier at $199 per month and an S-Corp tier at $349 per month, with annual-payment discounts and additional payroll/onboarding charges. State and government filing fees may be extra.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M estimated range from third-party company-data sources; Collective has publicly stated that revenue increased nearly 10x from its 2021 Series A to 2023, but it has not disclosed audited revenue.
Estimated monthly visits
155.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Collective · Jul 2023
Collective announced a $50 million financing to deepen investment in its platform and expand AI across bookkeeping, tax, accounting, and other workflows. The company said the funding brought total capital raised to $82 million and would support expansion and onboarding of its large waitlist.
TechCrunch · Jul 2023
TechCrunch reported that the $50 million round was backed by Gradient Ventures, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures. It also reported an approximately 200-person workforce, GPT-4-based automation, and a total raised figure of $82 million.
Forbes · Jul 2023
Forbes profiled Collective’s AI-powered back-office strategy, its focus on one-person businesses, its $50 million financing, and its reported growth in revenue and waitlist.
Collective · Jan 2023
Collective announced that it had expanded service availability to all 50 U.S. states, positioning nationwide coverage as a major milestone in its effort to serve solopreneurs.
Collective · May 2021
Collective announced a $20 million Series A led by General Catalyst and joined by Expa, QED, Gradient Ventures, Sound Ventures, and a group of prominent individual investors.
15 jobs at Collective