JP Morgan Chase. They aren't sexy. They don't have a great API. They don't have a good UI. They're slow as shit to process your paperwork. Our rep calls us every time even though I have asked him to email instead. They suck in almost every single way you can imagine. But, they also tend to function like a real bank, and outside the last few months, have treated us pretty well.
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#13I assume you know this, but just to mention it: For issuing cards, you can use Stripe nowadays. If you're doing this as part of your business (e.g. like Expensify is doing), its available to all US based businesses: https://stripe.com/issuing The more convenient Stripe Corporate Card (which sounds like that may be your use case?) is still invite only: https://stripe.com/docs/corporate-card (I myself am queued up for…
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#14(I am the CEO of Mercury.com.) Lots of people switch over from SVB to us. Happy to answer any questions you have. We go out of our way to be transparent in pricing, have great customers service and "just work". We dont currently do LoCs though. Also feel free to email me (my username AT mercury.com)
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#15Azlo https://www.azlo.com/
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#16(I am the CEO of Mercury.com.) Lots of people switch over from SVB to us. Happy to answer any questions you have. We go out of our way to be transparent in pricing, have great customers service and "just work". We dont currently do LoCs though. Also feel free to email me (my username AT mercury.com)
Re: Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?
#17(I am the CEO of Mercury.com.) Lots of people switch over from SVB to us. Happy to answer any questions you have. We go out of our way to be transparent in pricing, have great customers service and "just work". We dont currently do LoCs though. Also feel free to email me (my username AT mercury.com)
should've used a responsive CSS framework vs using css modules. recreated the wheel for not a lot of value.
Re: Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?
#18Azlo https://www.azlo.com/
Re: Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?
#19(I am the CEO of Mercury.com.) Lots of people switch over from SVB to us. Happy to answer any questions you have. We go out of our way to be transparent in pricing, have great customers service and "just work". We dont currently do LoCs though. Also feel free to email me (my username AT mercury.com)
Re: Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?
#20(I am the CEO of Mercury.com.) Lots of people switch over from SVB to us. Happy to answer any questions you have. We go out of our way to be transparent in pricing, have great customers service and "just work". We dont currently do LoCs though. Also feel free to email me (my username AT mercury.com)
Only nitpick is when my co-founders linked their bank accounts to Mercury to transfer money, Mercury displayed their personal account balances (after unlinking their accounts, their personal balances no longer showed up). I had to wire transfer since Plaid didn't work for my bank.