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Column Tax announces $5.1M seed round to launch mobile tax-prep products
Mobile income tax software Column Tax announced today that it raised $5.1 million in seed funding and is launching its first commercial product, which will provide users with early access to their tax refunds. Bain Capital Ventures led the seed round alongside South Park Commons, Core Innovation Capital, and Operator Partners. Column Tax’s “Tax Refund Unlock” becomes available today to 2 million users of cash advance app Klover, who tend to be millennial and Gen Z Americans, Klover CEO Brian Mandelbaum told TechCrunch in an email.