Arc

Arc

Software-driven banking & growth capital for startups

4.9
60 reviews

1.3K followers

Arc empowers startups with a better banking experience. With Arc, you can open FDIC-insurance eligible accounts in minutes, manage everyday banking needs without fees, diversify & safeguard cash, maximize yield, and instantly access growth capital—all in one platform and partnering with trusted banks. Based in SF & NYC, Arc has raised $180M+ of equity and debt funding from Left Lane, NFX, BCV, YC, among others. [Arc is a technology company, not a bank: arc.tech/general-disclosures]
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Don Muir
Maker
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 Don from Arc, launching the software-driven banking & growth capital platform for startups. We set out building Arc with a simple mission—to help startups grow. At the time, we didn’t anticipate how tumultuous the startup funding, banking, and operating environment would become over the next two years. For startups, access to capital and FDIC coverage has never been more important. In turn, our founding principle to support the startup ecosystem has never been more clear. And with that, we are incredibly excited to formally introduce Arc to the Product Hunt community. A few guiding principles around Arc’s platform 👇: 1. Become the one-stop-shop for all things startup finance (banking, funding & spending) 2. Prioritize the trust & safety of our customers by partnering with trusted financial institutions 3. Build enduring products that drive value to startups during both good times and bad Enter Arc—your full-service finance platform and startup command center. With Arc’s banking platform you can: ⏱️ Open a business account in <10 minutes 🆓 Manage everyday banking & finance needs without fees 📈 Generate market-leading yield on idle cash 🏦 Automatically diversify deposits across dozens of FDIC-insured banks 💵 Quickly access non-dilutive capital in-app at competitive terms Our team of Arc-itects has worked hard towards this launch but we have a long way to go. In that vein, we’d love your feedback on our product! Please leave your comments below or you can reach us at founders (AT) arc.tech. P.S. As a one-time Product Hunt promotion, we’re offering a $2.5K cash bonus for deposits >$250K made into your Primary account through the end of July. Bonuses will be paid out one month after initial deposit contingent on funds remaining in place over the period. To redeem, simply reply to your onboarding welcome email with the promo code. You can get started here. -- Arc is a financial technology company, not a bank or an investment advisor. Banking services provided by Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. All investment advisory services provided by Helium Advisors LLC. Arc receives compensation as a percentage of assets managed by Helium for promoting Helium’s investment advisory services. Brokerage services provided by BNY Mellon Pershing, Member SIPC, through a clearing and custody partnership with Helium. Read additional disclosures here.
Veronica Pachari
Good
Don Muir
@veronica_pachari thanks for your support
Don Muir
@victoria_wu thank you very much 🙏
Eric McFarland
@don_muir startups deserve top tier AI-driven banking platform service like this from Arc! All the other traditional financial institutions keep providing sub par service and its the startups that suffer. I can't express how badly founders and growth minded entrepreneurs need this!
Nick Lombardo
To summarize the key themes I'm seeing in these comments from everyone: trust & deposit safety, sufficient & flexible yield, timely customer support, automated processes, and bundled financial products. What other themes, or better yet specific financial products / features, do you want to see us prioritize?
Anh-Tho Chuong
@nlombardo do you plan to launch in other geographies? I am sure there’s demand in Europe!
Nick Lombardo
@anhthochuong Yes - we want to make Arc available in Europe. We don't have a solid timeline to announce today, but it's something we're exploring and excited about.
Anh-Tho Chuong
@nlombardo awesome! We will start testing you with out US entity and continue with the EU one when you launch ☺️🥳
Dom Mirabile
@nlombardo Seems like Arc is already a one-stop-shop for cash/capital. Would love to see what innovation looks like on the VC/equity side given that is such an important piece of the startup journey. How can you help founders make smarter decisions when it comes to raising capital in equity rounds? Have you thought about that?
Nick Lombardo
@dmirabile5 Great question. Given we bank startups and underwrite many of them for non-dilutive financing already, we're often close to our customers when they're thinking about raising equity rounds. Today, we haven't productized much on the equity side, but we tap into our VC investor network for introductions and provide advice around overall financing strategy. As we build out our community of startup banking (and increasingly VC banking) customers, there is more we'll look to productize.
Basile Senesi
It's hard to keep the subtle differences straight when it comes to fintech banking. A lot of the neobank differentiation is surface level - better service, better credit products, better rates... Arc nails all of that and leads to market in each of these areas (dedicated relationship managers, venture debt + working capital + ABLs..., highest yields on treasuries...). More transformational, however, and really bucking the trend in fintech is the focus on building this product atop too big to fail bank partners like BNY Mellon Pershing, and relentlessly growing that list. Lots to love about this solution! (disclosures: https://www.arc.tech/general-dis...)
Don Muir
@basile_senesi1 well said
Sebhastien Gibossé
@basile_senesi1 congrats on the launch!
Basile Senesi
@sebhastien Thank you!
Ashley Barrett
@basile_senesi1 I agree it’s extremely hard to keep up with the subtle differences of the crowded space of fintech banking. So is Arc’s differentiator from said crowded space that you offer it all as opposed to one or 2 things really well? How are you selling this value to founders who aren’t financial/understand the value or may not need all of the value you offer? BNY Mellon 😬🙈 for a 2023 banking platform imshocked! I’m just going to assume some radical digital transformation happened with them - I used to work for Morningstar, MS built their systems around BNY, arguably the worst banking tech I’ve ever seen in my life most outdated processes in fact MS stopped doing business with them - it was that bad! just seeing their name associated with the future of banking made me do a double take 🤯 of shock lol I would never put future of banking and their bank in the same sentence (at least hope the people you’re talking to don’t have the insight I do on banking, BNY is like the antithesis of what you’re doing) it’s really hard to keep up with the saturation of this market, but I look forward to keeping an eye on how this fintech product solves your target markets problems!
Basile Senesi
@ashleylivingagile our differentiator is that we offer the best and most diverse passive cash management solutions for startups. Like our competitors, we also offer a very elegant front end UI for day to day banking, but our Treasury solution is the difference maker. I know, BNY has come a long way, from a traditional offline bank to an API enabled player. We've been very grateful to partner with them to develop that further given the strength of their balance sheet and resilience!