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Tax rules get ever more complicated, compliance gets more expensive, and the Big Four controls the expertise. They charge fees that only giant companies can afford, while smaller businesses are left flying blind.\nCaribou is a tax platform designed to make international tax accessible to every global business. We’re fixing Transfer Pricing first, where one million businesses are in need, but only ten thousand experts exist.\nOur backers include Y Combinator, Accel, Lakestar and angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies in London and San Francisco.\nAbout the Role\nTransfer pricing is genuinely hard to understand. Our customers are finance leaders, not tax specialists. They need to see their intercompany structure, understand what the rules require of them, and act on it, without a Big Four partner sitting next to them translating.\n**Making that legible is the hardest and most valuable product problem we have. 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