Mercury

In the early 1900s, Maria Montessori redesigned education by creating environments that guided learners toward independence. Instead of overwhelming people with instruction, she built structured systems that supported progress through clarity, momentum, and gradual mastery. At Mercury, we’re explori

Mercury is building a complete finance stack for startups. Since we launched Mercury in 2019, our customer base has grown to over 200,000 startups and small businesses from all around the world. Our Support team is expanding to match this growth, and we're continuing to grow our EMEA team to provide

In 1969, Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett co-launched Sesame Street with a then-radical idea: educational content didn’t have to be dry to be meaningful. Storytelling, visual craft, spirit, and warmth could all help shape how people learn. We’re not making children’s television at Mercury, but w

Behind every ambitious company is an accounting partner advising them along the way, keeping the books clean, managing cash flow, filing taxes, and making sure their clients do not run out of runway without noticing. These firms are the quiet infrastructure of modern business finance, and they

Every great company eventually faces the same question: how do you turn your best customers into the engine that fuels growth? The companies that get this right know that the best way to grow is to help your top customers scale. Their success becomes the blueprint the next wave wants to follow. Merc

In Renaissance Florence, wealthy merchants faced a dilemma: where could they safely store their gold without it sitting idle. The Medici family offered a radical alternative. Deposit your assets with them and your assets would be secure, earn consistent returns, and, crucially, be accessible when ne

In 1976, the British statistician George Box wrote that “all models are wrong, but some are useful,” which remains a fundamental principle for anyone attempting to model the complexities of reality. Just as a map would need to be the size of a city to capture every last detail, a financial model tha

“The most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable—but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.” — W. Edwards Deming That tension is at the heart of G&A and R&D finance. How do you measure the value of a great legal team before you need t

Wire transfers trace their roots back to the telegraph, early systems built to move information and eventually money across long distances with speed and certainty. That legacy still defines how wires work today: they are fast, final, and effectively immutable. Once a transaction is sent, it cannot

In 1954, Eero Saarinen designed a branch office with glass walls, no offices, and a completely open floor plan in Columbus, Indiana. It was surrounded by trees; the furniture was made by Herman Miller; the lobby flooring was thick, rustic brick. It was built with transparency and community at its co

At Mercury, we believe that good security is a journey rather than a destination which is really another way of saying that security is an ongoing process and not a one time task. Even continual processes have an outcome or product and for us that outcome is trust. When we do our jobs right we deliv

In 1947, a copywriter named Frances Gerety was working late on a campaign for a diamond company with a problem: it controlled most of the world's diamond supply, but diamonds weren't seen as particularly special. Rubies, sapphires, emeralds — any gemstone would do. Gerety needed to change how people

Mercury's ability to operate reliable banking* comes down to the infrastructure we build that ensures money moves correctly - every transaction, across every payment rail, with the precision and accountability that customers, regulators, and the financial system itself require. Banking Foundations i

Role Overview We are seeking an analytical and technically skilled professional to lead the implementation, management, and ongoing enhancement of our cash flow engine. This role will be responsible for modeling balance sheet cash flows, supporting interest rate risk (IRR) analytics, and ensuring th

At Mercury, we believe that thoughtful design can change an ancient industry shaped by complexity, friction, and indifference—and that intentionality, care, and taste can marry power and beauty, form and function, where these concepts are taken for granted. As we build a radically different kind of

At Mercury, we're building banking* for ambitious companies. We recently announced our Series C funding, backed by top-tier investors like Sequoia, and we're scaling faster than ever. With more than 200K+ businesses using Mercury to manage their finances, our team is powering the next wave of innova

Mercury is building the banking* stack for startups, and protecting our customers from fraud is core to that mission. As our Account Fraud program has grown in complexity, spanning transaction monitoring, investigations, BPO operations, and an expanding set of fraud vectors across ACH, wires, checks

The ATM didn't just move cash out of bank branches. It decoupled the bank from the banker — and for the first time, customers could access their money without asking permission from a human. That was 1967. Every decade since has been another layer of abstraction: online banking* removed the branch,

In 1978, Gary Thuerk sent the world’s first email marketing campaign to about 400 recipients, kicking off an entire industry and earning himself the title 'Father of Spam'—though he himself preferred to be known as the 'Father of Email Marketing.' While we're aiming for something a bit more charming

The word ‘credit’ is derived from the latin verb meaning, “one believes”. Underwriting is not merely a science of risk scoring and algorithms, but also an art of unearthing hidden variables, and of subtle pattern recognition; bridging the gap between that of real and perceived risk. The established