Startup Banking 101: What Every Early-Stage Founder Needs to Know

​Opening a business bank account seems simple, until you're staring down a dozen options, wondering about FDIC coverage, or trying to figure out how banking decisions today will affect your fundraise tomorrow.

​Led by Mercury, join us for a practical walkthrough of startup banking fundamentals: how to choose the right bank, what documents you'll need to open an account, how to structure accounts for runway management and payroll, why deposit insurance matters more than you think, and the red flags that trip up founders when they're raising their first round. Whether you're pre-seed or just closed your seed round, you'll leave with a clear framework for making smart banking decisions, and the questions to ask before you sign anything.

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​About Mercury

​Mercury is a radically different banking* product — engineered from the ground up to hold, move, and help you truly understand your money like never before. Everything you need is built in: cards, invoicing, bill pay, spend management, real-time insights, intelligent categorization. And because it all lives in one place, it gets smarter the more you use it — surfacing what you need, when you need it, in ways a patchwork of tools never could. To join the more than 300K entrepreneurs that trust Mercury, visit mercury.com.

​*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. The IO Card is issued by Patriot Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Mastercard International Incorporated.