Luca IQ

AI Agents · Accounting & Tax Software
1open role
1backers · Y Combinator
50+team · employees, estimated range
2025founded

Overview

From client intake and tax preparation through e-filing, review, and delivery, Luca IQ helps your firm complete accurate returns without disconnected tools or manual busywork.

Funding and backers

Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 2026 Went through Y Combinator 2025 Founded
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Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Jobs

$150k – $180k per year · Equity 0.2–0.5% · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Chicago
Python
Fine-tuning
AI Agents
LLM
OCR
Human-in-the-Loop
Machine Learning
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$180k – $200k
Open positions
2
2 Jobs
Middle 50%
Staff 50%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 1 $180k $180k
Staff 1 $200k $200k
Highest paying role Founding Tax Lead (CPA or EA Required) $200k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 55% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
33% ▼
Frontend
33% ▼
Finance
33% ▼

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Luca IQ over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
10
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
86/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
AI & ML
LLM
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
Human-in-the-Loop
Machine Learning
OCR
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Connections

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Shared investors1
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

News

News Accounting Today 4 months ago
Tech news: Luca IQ launches e-file approved tax engine for CPAs
Plus, Workday touts new Financial Audit Agent; Cherry Hill Advisory launches AI-enabled internal audit services; and other accounting tech news and updates.
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News Harvard Business School 8 months ago
HBS's Rock Center Showcases Top Ventures at Demo Day and Venture Leadership Dinner Newsroom
Luca IQ was one of twenty semifinalist ventures from the New Venture Competition selected to present at Harvard Business School's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Demo Day.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Chicago
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Chicago United States
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 100% remote 50-200 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, Finance
seen since Sep 2026