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Employer.com acquires troubled bookkeeping startup Bench, ending chaos for customers

Just days after shocking and angering some customers over the manner of its sudden shutdown, the accounting software startup Bench Accounting Inc. says it’s now being acquired by Employer.com Inc. The ...
GeekWire

Bench Accounting to be acquired by Employer.com following abrupt shutdown

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Dec 30, 2024 at 9:28 ...
Inc

Bench’s Jilted Customers Say the Accounting Startup’s Problems Began Long Before Its Abrupt Shutdown

At the peak of the holiday season, on December 27, Galen King received a notice that his bookkeeper wanted to ask him something. But when King, a Vermont-based web design and e-commerce consultant, ...
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How a Once-Hot Fintech’s AI Bet Led to Bankruptcy

(Bloomberg) -- Bench Accounting, like many fintech startups, had ambitions to shake up a boring but important corner of finance — in this case, bookkeeping for small businesses. It racked up more than ...
The Globe and Mail

Bench Accounting shuts down abruptly, leaving customers in a year-end lurch

Vancouver’s Bench Accounting suddenly ceased operations Friday, potentially putting hundreds out of work and leaving customers of the bookkeeping company – which had raised more than US$100-million ...
Business Insider

Taxfyle and Bench Team Up to Tackle New Trump Tax Code for Small Businesses

CORAL GABLES, Fla., Nov. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Tickmark, Inc. (Taxfyle), the leading on-demand tax preparation service, has partnered with Bench Accounting, Inc. (Bench), North America's largest ...