Additional investment doubles Pilot's valuation to $1.2Bn and increases Series C to $100M raised as Pilot rapidly scales "big-company superpowers" for SMBs

Pilot, the largest provider of back office services for startups and small businesses in the U.S., announced today that it has closed on additional funding led by Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos) and Whale Rock Capital, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, that increases the Series C to $100 million and doubles the company's valuation to $1.2Bn. The additional funding enables Pilot to further expand its breadth of back office services that offload day-to-day distractions and allow small business owners and founders to focus on growth.

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"Since the earliest days of my career, including an internship at Amazon in 2005, I've been inspired by Jeff's relentless focus on delivering an exceptional customer experience. We've brought that same DNA to Pilot's customer-centric approach: over 80% of our business is driven by customer referrals and organic interest," said Waseem Daher, Founder & CEO.

"Pilot is revolutionizing the back office by combining white-glove customer service with carefully-engineered software," said Kristov Paulus, Partner at Whale Rock. "We look forward to supporting Pilot in their vision to make back office services as easy-to-use, scalable, and ubiquitous as AWS has with the cloud."

In 2020, Pilot completed more than $3 billion in bookkeeping transactions for its customers, which range from pre-revenue startups to established companies generating more than $30M of revenue a year. It has also established co-marketing partnerships with other industry leaders including American Express, Bill.com, Brex, Carta, Gusto, Rippling, Stripe, SVB, and Techstars.

Pilot continues to see strong momentum on its mission to bring big-company finance superpowers to SMBs. With Pilot, founders, business owners and finance teams are able to:

Started by three-time co-founders Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold, and Jessica McKellar, Pilot was created to solve problems they'd faced themselves while building their two previous companies.

About Pilot

Pilot launched in 2017 to bring the back office into the modern era. The company provides small businesses with dedicated finance experts-which Pilot hires as full-time, U.S.-based employees-who learn the ins-and-outs of their business. Pilot integrates directly with the billing, banking, expense and payroll systems customers already use. With a special blend of custom software and expert bookkeepers, Pilot delivers accurate, consistent bookkeeping that gives entrepreneurs the freedom to focus on their business, as well as an array of additional financial services.

Pilot was founded by Waseem Daher, CEO; Jeff Arnold, COO; and Jessica McKellar, CTO. It is their third startup, after two successful exits. Pilot has over 1,000 customers and has raised over $150 million to date. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, Stripe, Whale Rock, and many world-class entrepreneurs, including Jeff Bezos, Patrick and John Collison, Drew Houston, Diane Greene, Frederic Kerrest, Hans Robertson, Adam D'Angelo, Paul English, Howard Lerman, Joshua Reeves and Tien Tzuo.

Learn more at https://pilot.com/

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Lisa Tarter press@pilot.com