'There were other great services, but banking was kind of static': Mercury's Immad Akhund

Welcome to the Tearsheet Podcast. I’m Tearsheet Editor in Chief, Zack Miller. As a founder of a tech startup, Immad Akhund found that the banks his firm used were all lost in the sea of mediocrity and sameness. He was surrounded by services in other parts of his business that were fresh, fast and worked well. His frustration with banking led him to found and lead Mercury, a bank for startups. The company has a lot of big Silicon Valley names as angel investors — people like Andreesen Horowitz, Plaid’s Zach Perret, Allison Barr from Uber Money, Bill Clerico at WePay, and Roger Smith, founder of Silicon Valley Bank. Mercury provides API access to its services that include virtual cards, team management, and business analytics on top of an FDIC-insured bank account. Immad Amkhund is our guest today on the Tearsheet Podcast.