Partnering with Mercury: The Business Banking Platform of the Future

• Mercury reimagines business banking for startups and SMBs, founded 2019.
  • Founders: Immad Akhund, Jason Zhang, Max Tagher.
• Bank account is the nucleus of business finance — legacy banks failed it.
  • Paper-based, slow, unfit for modern company ops.
• $150B+ in transactions processed last year; 200K+ businesses served.
• Accounts open faster than legacy banks reply to inquiries.
• Sequoia led Series C; joined the board.
• Expanding beyond Silicon Valley into mainstream industries.
• Mercury Personal now live — moving from startup tool to full financial stack.

X discourse

• @ayushswrites: “Today, Central got acqui-hired by Mercury.” (415 likes)
• @pedroh96: “couldn’t think of a better partner than Capital One to close that gap” (376 likes)
• @jxnlco: “they saved me when chase bank fucked me over” (74 likes)
• @kevinrose: “90%+ of startups I work with use them (including myself)” (48 likes)
• @immad: “The great @kevinrose loves Mercury… he spent the whole pod promoting Mercury” (28 likes)

Sonya Huang and Isaiah Boone, Sequoia Capital — March 26, 2025 · 2025-03-26 · Read on sequoiacap.com