Quaderno
👤 Carlos Hernandez Medina (Ran a Stripe invoicing tool since 2014; when EU VAT flipped, he owned the transaction data rivals lacked. Bootstrapped, no VC.)🌐 site𝕏LinkedIn
In 2015 the EU made every digital seller charge VAT by buyer location. Quaderno already sat on the data to do it.
Will it work? · our read
Law sells it. Boring, mandatory, recurring. Quaderno never had to make anyone want tax compliance; the EU and US did that. Its only real risk was the platform, Stripe, it was built on top of.
01How the money moves
Seller connects Stripe, PayPal or Shopify
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Quaderno applies the right VAT/sales tax per buyer's country and logs it
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Seller pays a monthly SaaS fee to stay legally compliant
02The numbers
2,600+
clients across 104 countries
Visma 2023
14,000+
tax jurisdictions covered
Visma
about $3M
ARR near exit (estimate)
Latka est.
Revenue is a third-party estimate (Latka), not company-confirmed. Client and jurisdiction counts are from Visma's acquisition release. Visma newsroom
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Visma — Quaderno acquisition (Sept 2023): 2,600+ clients, 104 countries, 14,000+ jurisdictionsQuaderno — About (bootstrapped 10 years, since 2014)Latka — revenue estimate (EST, unverified): about $2.8-3.6MDeniero B. — Carlos Hernandez on the 5-hour workday and bootstrapping
Revenue is unverified: no first-party figure exists. Latka estimates about $2.8M-3.6M ARR (2023-24), flagged EST. First-party from Visma's newsroom: founded 2014, Las Palmas (Canary Islands) HQ, 2,600+ clients across 104 countries, 14,000+ jurisdictions, acquired by Visma Sept 2023 (terms undisclosed). The invoicing-to-tax pivot driven by 2015 EU VAT is documented by the founder. The Stripe Tax rivalry and 'platform becomes rival' framing is our read, not a company statement. We never score you.