Naj Austin
Founder & CEO, Ethel's Club
TOTAL CREDITs FOUND
$20,708
John Melas-Kyriazi
Founder & CEO, Quaestor
TOTAL CREDITs FOUND
$95,425
Helena Hambrecht
Founder & CEO, Haus
TOTAL CREDITs FOUND
$115,190
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FEDERAL CREDIT
Research & Development
$25,300
STATE CREDIT
Job Creation
$40,500
total credits found
$65,800
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Gefen Skolnick
Founder & CEO, Couplet Coffee
TOTAL CREDITS FOUND
$9,537
SOFTWARE STARTUPS
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Spike Lipkin
Founder & CEO, Newfront Insurance
TOTAL CREDITS FOUND
$311,090
SAAS STARTUPS
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We hired the best CPA in San Francisco to look for credits. MainStreet still blew them out of the water.

Will Manidis
Founder & CEO, Science.io
TOTAL CREDITS FOUND
$121,114
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Founder, Scale AI

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Founder, Product Hunt

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Moshe Lifschitz
GP, Basement Fund
Between Product Hunt, AngelList, On Deck, and Remote First Capital, I've met with thousands of founders. It's shocking how few are claiming these credits.

Andreas Klinger
CTO, On Deck

I wish we'd had MainStreet at Twitter in the early days. We barely had the time to think, let alone learn about tax codes.

Elizabeth Weil
General Partner, Scribble Ventures