{"id":12659,"date":"2014-12-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12659"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:09:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:09:12","slug":"libra-raises-500k-to-expand-bitcoin-tax-compliance-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/libra-raises-500k-to-expand-bitcoin-tax-compliance-solutions","title":{"rendered":"Libra Raises $500k to Expand Bitcoin Tax Compliance Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"single-author\"><a title=\"Posts by Pete Rizzo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/author\/pete-rizzo\/\" rel=\"author\">Pete Rizzo<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Coindesk<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"\" alt=\"http:\/\/media.coindesk.com\/2014\/10\/unnamed.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Libra announced it has raised $500,000 in a new seed round led by New York-based, seed-stage investment fund Liberty City Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The round, which coincides with the formal launch of its IRS-compliant accounting software <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libratax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LibraTax<\/a>, also included participation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raptorventures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raptor Ventures<\/a> managing director James Pallotta and former Facebook software engineer and current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tag\/bitgo\/\" target=\"_blank\">BitGo<\/a> CPO Ben Davenport.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CoinDesk, Libra CEO Jake Benson indicated that the company intends to use the funds to build around its core product, creating a wide range of solutions for businesses and certified public accountants (CPAs) working in the bitcoin space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/libra-raises-500k-bitcoin-tax-compliance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Rizzo \u2014 Coindesk Libra announced it has raised $500,000 in a new seed round led by New York-based, seed-stage investment fund Liberty City Ventures. The round, which coincides with the formal launch of its IRS-compliant accounting software LibraTax, also included participation from Raptor Ventures managing director James Pallotta and former Facebook software engineer and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46707,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12659\/revisions\/46707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}