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So cool! Chris is a wizard.

Hey HN, we're YC S22 — let us know if you have any questions or feedback!

Thanks Ashwin. And if anyone has questions about working with Stripe BaaS, happy to chat about that as well — it's been great!

Thanks for the question! So the way that Bend works, we take a transaction, and then match it with the best available 'emissions factor'. So, for example, if you purchase something…

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Hi HN, let us know if you have any questions!

Hi HN! We’re Ted and Thomas from Bend (YC S22). Today we’re launching a modern corporate card built for climate-friendly business. Just by shifting some of your company spending to…

haha indeed — but actually, this is kind of the point — purchasing carbon removal credits is just like any other business purchase, but with a negative emissions factor. When you p…

Thanks, ya, fair points — as orgs level-up and get more sophisticated, you might start to use Bend as the first pass, identifying hot-spots, and then doing deeper dives on the spec…

ya, that's right, good point. For complete GHGP inventory reporting, customers need to estimate employee commuting separately (and we're happy to help with that; it's usually a pre…

We treat payroll as zero emissions. The responsibility boundary of a company doesn't include the personal consumption decisions of employees. The spend-based approach makes this pr…

Hi! Ya we only use full GHGP inventory data. Honestly, the hardest data to gather is clean transaction data! The Brex API returns relatively clean data. Other banks and financial i…

We picked a price that opens up the addressable market beyond late stage and public companies. As startups, you have an unfair advantage — it’s much easier to build good carbon hab…

Hey, good questions! You know your stuff. Re: do you have any concerns that your users might shortcut the work to produce high quality estimates of their Scope 3 emissions when you…

Unfortunately 'spend less' is not by itself a viable strategy for most growing companies. Companies need to invest in their growth. But companies can instead shift their spend from…

Ya, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol — https://ghgprotocol.org/ — is the universally accepted way for companies to measure their emissions. It's been around for about a decade. That bei…

Ya totally! Another way to think about it — in climate lingo, there are 3 types of emissions: First there are Scope 1 emissions, which are the emissions from burning fossil fuels d…

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Ya I hear you, our goal is to combat greenwashing in a few ways. We cover total emissions (vs. cherry-picking categories of emissions). We incentivize companies to take action toda…

Ya good point — our approach is always spend-based, so the way we'd calculate cloud spend is your AWS / GCP bill * the AWS / Google carbon intensity (what we call a 'factor'). It i…

Hi HN! We’re Ted and Thomas from Bend ( https://bend.green/product ). We help companies measure their carbon emissions by connecting to your corporate bank account (Brex, Mercury, …

PlanetScale is an awesome DB that handles sharding and size-balancing — plus they have an incredible free tier. https://planetscale.com/ Rust is a memory-safe systems programming l…