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Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>Ramp (founded in 2019) launched a free corporate card with 1.5% cash back on the front end powered by real-time, programmatic expense management on the back end.</li><li>By December 2020, ten months after launching, Ramp hit $200M in annualized gross payment volume (TPV) and $8M in annualized revenue—today, Sacra estimates that Ramp does about $16B in annualized TPV and $327M in annualized revenue, up 98% year-over-year, on track to hit $381M at the end of the year.</li><li>With card issuing as its initial wedge, Ramp set out to colonize the entire finance back office, starting by layering on optical character recognition (OCR) to go after Expensify (NASDAQ: EXFY) and the $2B expense management market.</li></ul>

Ramp (founded in 2019) launched a free corporate card with 1.5% cash back on the front end powered by real-time, programmatic expense management on the back end.By December 2020, ten months after launching, Ramp hit $200M in annualized gross payment volume (TPV) and $8M in annualized revenue—today, Sacra estimates that Ramp does about $16B in annualized TPV and $327M in annualized revenue, up 98% year-over-year, on track to hit $381M at the end of the year.With card issuing as its initial wedge, Ramp set out to colonize the entire finance back office, starting by layering on optical character recognition (OCR) to go after Expensify (NASDAQ: EXFY) and the $2B expense management market.

<ul><li>Ramp recently announced a suite of GPT-4 powered services across expense management, vendor management and bookkeeping.</li><li>GPT unlocks the ability for any company to tap into advanced data science techniques focused on the understanding of language.</li><li>Now, we can offer them these services at a fraction of the cost because it costs us significantly less to offer it.</li></ul>

Ramp recently announced a suite of GPT-4 powered services across expense management, vendor management and bookkeeping.GPT unlocks the ability for any company to tap into advanced data science techniques focused on the understanding of language.Now, we can offer them these services at a fraction of the cost because it costs us significantly less to offer it.

Geoff Charles, VP Of Product At Ramp, On Ramp's AI Flywheel

<ul><li>COVID was a massive tailwind for remote and international hiring.</li><li>Companies reducing headcount is obviously a short-term headwind, and there's no denying that.</li><li>Ultimately, as with anything, it is a risk management exercise, and hopefully we can give you the right advice and the right tools to be able to make that decision for yourself.</li></ul>

COVID was a massive tailwind for remote and international hiring.Companies reducing headcount is obviously a short-term headwind, and there's no denying that.Ultimately, as with anything, it is a risk management exercise, and hopefully we can give you the right advice and the right tools to be able to make that decision for yourself.

Matt Drozdzynski, CEO And co-founder Of Plane, On Global Payroll post-COVID

<ul><li>Historically, startup founders have struggled opening bank accounts and getting credit cards—particularly without giving a personal guarantee.</li><li>In 2018, Brex launched a credit card for startups and hit 1,000 customers in 5 months underwriting cash in the bank, not historical financials, with 10x the credit limit of American Express and no personal guarantee.</li><li>Today, Sacra estimates that Brex is at $400M revenue, growing 67% year-over-year and doing $17.5B in annualized transaction volume, last valued at $12.3B or a 31x multiple to current revenue with 50,000+ customers (~40% of U.S. startups).</li></ul>

Historically, startup founders have struggled opening bank accounts and getting credit cards—particularly without giving a personal guarantee.In 2018, Brex launched a credit card for startups and hit 1,000 customers in 5 months underwriting cash in the bank, not historical financials, with 10x the credit limit of American Express and no personal guarantee.Today, Sacra estimates that Brex is at $400M revenue, growing 67% year-over-year and doing $17.5B in annualized transaction volume, last valued at $12.3B or a 31x multiple to current revenue with 50,000+ customers (~40% of U.S. startups).

<ul><li>Mercury is becoming the Booking.com of startup banking, aggregating demand using free checking accounts and the best banking experience to commoditize suppliers (partner banks) who pay for access to Mercury’s customer base.</li><li>SVB got unbundled during COVID and then unwound completely in 48 hours, with Mercury and Brex initially emerging as the primary beneficiaries, with Mercury adding $2B+ in deposits and thousands of customers in a week.</li><li>SVB’s growth left it vulnerable to bottom-up disruption from Mercury and Brex (both founded in 2017), which offered bank accounts and corporate cards to underserved startups outside the core Silicon Valley clique (e.g., international startups).</li></ul>

Mercury is becoming the Booking.com of startup banking, aggregating demand using free checking accounts and the best banking experience to commoditize suppliers (partner banks) who pay for access to Mercury’s customer base.SVB got unbundled during COVID and then unwound completely in 48 hours, with Mercury and Brex initially emerging as the primary beneficiaries, with Mercury adding $2B+ in deposits and thousands of customers in a week.SVB’s growth left it vulnerable to bottom-up disruption from Mercury and Brex (both founded in 2017), which offered bank accounts and corporate cards to underserved startups outside the core Silicon Valley clique (e.g., international startups).

Mercury: The Unbundling Of Silicon Valley Bank

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Software suite for global companies to manage cards, expenses, and business accounts

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Geoff Charles, VP Of Product At Ramp, On Ramp's AI Flywheel

Sacra interview with Geoff Charles, VP of Product at Ramp.

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Matt Drozdzynski, CEO And co-founder Of Plane, On Global Payroll post-COVID

Sacra interview with Matt Drozdzynski, CEO and co-founder of Plane.

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Brex: The $400M/year anti-Amex

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Mercury: The Unbundling Of Silicon Valley Bank

TL;DR: As Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last week, $3B+ in funds flowed through the startup ecosystem to other startups, particularly neobanks...

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