Crypto Tax Firm CoinTracker Valued At $1.3 Billion After $100 Million Fundraise

New York: CoinTracker, which tracks shoppers' cryptocurrency taxes and portfolios, mentioned on Thursday it has raised $100 million in funding from a slew of institutional traders and high-net-worth people.The funding places the corporate's valuation at $1.3 billion.CoinTracker permits shoppers to trace their crypto portfolios throughout exchanges and wallets, serving to customers monitor their market worth, funding efficiency, transactions and taxes.The funding spherical was led by enterprise capital agency Accel, in line with an announcement from CoinTracker, with traders akin to Initialized Capital, General Catalyst, Y Combinator Accuity, and Seven Seven Six, the enterprise agency of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, additionally collaborating.All 5 institutional traders confirmed their participation in emails to Reuters.The funds will probably be used to develop the corporate's personnel, preserve protection of exchanges, blockchains, and different crypto sectors, in addition to to scale buyer help and content material, CoinTracker mentioned in its assertion.Crypto adoption has grown exponentially throughout a number of exchanges, wallets and functions, with an estimated 221 million world customers shopping for and promoting the digital foreign money as of June 2021. This has created challenges for traders in monitoring their portfolio and staying tax-compliant."The biggest issue crypto holders face with tax compliance is that as soon as they transact with crypto beyond a single exchange, calculating taxes accurately becomes extremely difficult," Jon Lerner, chief govt and co-founder of CoinTracker, instructed Reuters in an e mail.Historically, he mentioned cryptocurrency tax compliance has been low. By the tip of 2015, Coinbase had 5.9 million prospects buying and selling $6 billion in crypto. But between 2013 and 2015, the Internal Revenue Service is reported to have acquired solely 800- 900 tax returns with crypto transaction, Lerner added.Figuring out tips on how to precisely report and handle taxes is the place CoinTracker is available in, mentioned Sagar Sanghvi, accomplice at Accel and CoinTracker board member.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)