ANNA Cash has acquired Enterprise Information Group (BDG) and UK Enterprise Boards (UKBF) as a part of its purpose of constructing an AI-powered working system for small enterprise founders and homeowners.
BDG is a number one, UK-based impartial firm formation platform. UKBF is a 160,000-member, on-line neighborhood of small enterprise homeowners, freelancers, and different professionals.
Based in 2017 and headquartered in London, ANNA made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2020 in Berlin.
AI-powered, all-in-one enterprise account ANNA Cash has acquired Enterprise Information Group (BDG) and UK Enterprise Boards (UKBF). The transfer represents the newest effort by ANNA to construct an AI-powered working system to assist founders begin, handle, and scale their companies. By buying BDG, ANNA will be capable to leverage the agency’s formation brokers to help startups from formation to the day-to-day duties of efficiently operating a enterprise. The acquisition of UKBF will permit ANNA to proceed to put money into the UKBF neighborhood and produce its enterprise administration instruments to extra small enterprise homeowners to assist them run their companies extra effectively.
“ANNA isn’t going to compete with formation brokers,” the corporate famous on its LinkedIn web page. “We’re right here to assist them win. ANNA’s success is tied to the success of the companies we assist get began. So as an alternative of competing with the impartial brokers who depend on BDG’s eFiling platform, we’re investing within the know-how, automation, and instruments that strengthen their positions.”
BDG is an impartial firm formation platform based mostly within the UK. The agency presents eFiling and the Companion Program utilized by hundreds of formation brokers and their shoppers yearly. Formation brokers are skilled service suppliers that assist founders and companies register and incorporate new firms with the suitable authorities entities. UKBF is a 160,000-member, on-line enterprise neighborhood and dialogue discussion board the place small enterprise homeowners, founders, freelancers, and different professionals share insights and issues about operating their companies.
ANNA’s purpose is to assist small companies reap the benefits of present agentic AI capabilities to boost invoices, comply with up on overdue funds, calculate and file taxes, and extra now, with the intention of increasing capabilities to assist small enterprise homeowners talk higher with their clients, handle suppliers, and conduct a rising quantity of the day-to-day duties concerned in operating a enterprise “over time” in what the corporate known as “ANNA 3.0.”
“Bringing BDG and UKBF into ANNA is a crucial step in the direction of that future,” ANNA Cash Co-founder and Co-CEO Eduard Panteleev stated. “Firm formation is the place each work trip begins, and BDG’s community means we are able to now help many extra entrepreneurs from day one, with know-how that grows alongside them.”
ANNA made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2020 in Berlin. On the convention, the UK-based firm confirmed how its tax and VAT accounting resolution manages self-assessment and VAT returns by mechanically categorizing and reconciling bills, and calculating VAT and tax in actual time at a fraction of the price of a devoted accountant. ANNA completes and submits each tax and VAT returns to HMRC with the help of a licensed accountant.
ANNA started 2026 with a recent capital infusion of £10 million in progress debt from Flashpoint Ventures. The funding helped the agency speed up the scaling of its Auto Accountant resolution designed to assist small companies within the UK meet the brand new regulatory necessities of the nation’s Making Tax Digital mandate. “This funding offers us the firepower to scale at precisely the best second,” Panteleev stated. “As Making Tax Digital for self-assessment comes into power for round 850,000 self-employed individuals and landlords subsequent yr, demand for good, automated accounting is accelerating quick.”
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