Crete Professionals Alliance
Crete Professionals Alliance was founded in 2023 by Jake Sloane and Frank Zhang of New York investment firm ZBS Partners, and raised a round co-led by Thrive Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners in May 2024.
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Crete Professionals Alliance was founded in 2023 by Jake Sloane and Frank Zhang of New York investment firm ZBS Partners, and raised a round co-led by Thrive Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners in May 2024. Partner firms keep their own leadership, brand and culture, while the platform provides national back-office resources and financial backing. Renamed Current in June 2026 under CEO Steve Stagner, it had more than 2,000 employees at nearly 30 firms as of June 2026 and more than $500 million in revenue in its latest fiscal year. It is now Thrive Holdings' accounting platform; the Tax AI built by engineers embedded by Thrive Holdings and OpenAI processed 7,000 returns in a tax-season pilot, with an average 31% saving in preparation time at participating firms.
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Investor· 2
Founders / team· 3
Funding history
- 2024-05-02New funding round
Investors · Thrive Capital, Bessemer Venture PartnersSource · businesswire.com ↗
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