Two years ago, we launched the ability for Mercury users to issue / track payments for SAFEs Today, over $500M in SAFEs have been funded to thousands of startups!

Really enjoyed sitting down with rahul to talk growth, data, and building product Mercury Shared some fun stories about: - How WhatsApp got to 1.5B users w/o a growth team - Building Mercury's data team in the AI era - How art shapes what we build That and more!

👀A must-read piece from Mercury's Kayce Seifert just dropped in Open Banker ⬇️ 🤝 Bank-fintech partnerships are key engines for financial innovation. 🚨 However, outdated rules - such as prohibitions on sharing feedback from regulators - make it difficult for partners to

a16z releases its first AI spending report that shows which AI-native application layer companies startups are actually spending money on . techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/a-n…

🚨 Introducing the AI Apps 50: Startup Edition Ever wondered how startups are spending their money when it comes to AI? Our team at a16z worked with Mercury to crunch the numbers and rank the top applications by spend. The list + what we learned from it👇

We need a Survivor where all the contestants are billionaires. Would be great.

if startup life ever felt haunted, good news: now it literally is. play our haunted house for founders. 🎮 mercury.com/haunted

🗣️ “Fintechs are playing a weird game of charades.” Kayce Seifert, Associate GC at @Mercury and former FDIC attorney, tells Capitol Account why fintechs should have greater visibility into the confidential bank supervision process, and how transparency can strengthen innovation

Good morning. On today’s show: – Elon’s trillion-dollar pay package – Katherine Boyle (a16z) – Mikey (Suno) – immad (Mercury) – Jordan Castro (Author) See you on the stream.

Turns out SF’s founders have a type ☕️ If you’ve launched a startup in the city, odds are you’ve launched a few ideas from one of these spots Revealing… the top 5 local coffee shops where founders caffeinate, according to Mercury card spend data ⤵️

Looking to spot unicorns? Mercury's bringing the data on where to find them, based on where founders are fueling up

📣 Celebrating National Entrepreneurs’ Day with a Q&A from Mercury's Catherine Aquilina on how fintech fuels today’s builders. This month’s #FintechExplained covers scam prevention tips, BNPL holiday insights, open banking, and more.

Coffee on Mercury in SF today at any of these 22 spots! Use your IO card ☕️

Flagging for reports covering ecomm trends ahead of Black Friday / Cyber Monday next week! 🛒

love seeing Ali Donaldson's breakdown of some of the wildest stats from our ecommerce holiday report. thank you to the Inc. team for covering it!

You said “do NYC next,” so… we did. Presenting the top 10 coffee shops where NYC founders caffeinate, according to Mercury card spend. ⤵️

something’s dropping tomorrow 👀

Money milestones should feel good. When my husband and I bought a car, it should’ve been a celebration! Instead, we were stuck in a phone tree maze and identity checks just to move our own money. Your money wins should feel like wins. Mercury Personal is open now!