Limetax raises €6M pre-seed to embed agentic AI across German tax firms

Limetax Secures €6M Pre-Seed Round

Limetax, a Berlin-based tax and accounting group, has raised €6 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Motive Partners, with participation from Activant Capital, Alexander Kudlich, Heliad, Christian Lindner, Anton Rummel and Ante Spittler.

What Limetax Does

Limetax operates as a tax and accounting group that brings established German tax advisory firms under one umbrella and embeds its proprietary agentic AI platform into their daily operations. Rather than building a standalone software product, the company combines consolidation of advisory practices with an AI layer applied directly to the work those practices perform.

The platform builds on DATEV, the software backbone of the German tax profession. Limetax coordinates AI agents across bookkeeping, payroll and financial statements, while a human review layer keeps professional responsibility with the partner firms' own advisers.

Traction and Scale

Founded in January 2026 by Christoph Gamon, Maximilian Meyer and Christoph Dansard, Limetax has moved quickly. Eight months after launch, the company spans four firms across seven locations, employs around 150 people and reports annualised revenue in the double-digit millions.

That combination of headcount, multi-firm footprint and revenue scale at the pre-seed stage is unusual, and reflects the group's acquisition-led model of bringing existing advisory firms into a single structure.

The Funding

• Round type: Pre-Seed
• Amount: €6,000,000
• Date: 9 September 2026
• Lead investor: Motive Partners
• Additional investors: Activant Capital, Alexander Kudlich, Heliad, Christian Lindner, Anton Rummel, Ante Spittler

Why It Matters

The German tax advisory market is large, fragmented and deeply tied to DATEV as its operational standard. Limetax's approach targets both sides of that equation: consolidating firms to gain scale, and deploying agentic AI to change the economics of the work those firms deliver.

The human review layer is a notable design choice. By keeping professional responsibility with the partner firms' own advisers, Limetax positions AI as an augmentation of existing advisory practice rather than a replacement for it — a structure that may ease adoption within a profession where sign-off and liability matter.

What to Watch

With fresh capital and a stated footprint of four firms across seven locations, the key questions for Limetax are how quickly it can add advisory firms to the group, how consistently the AI platform performs across different practice workflows, and whether the double-digit-million annualised revenue base continues to scale as new firms are integrated.

For acquirers and investors tracking consolidation plays in professional services, Limetax sits at the intersection of two active themes: roll-up strategies in fragmented advisory markets and the application of agentic AI to regulated, document-heavy workflows.