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Mercury

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Mercury

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A financial technology company that simplifies business finances and provides banking services through Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank and Trust. observed

fresh · evidence today 11 sources no confidence data
—/100
Developer momentum
Why this score? ↓

What we have established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 Evidence sufficient to publish Yes

    The inclusion bar: two or more independent sourced evidence families. This profile is published and listed. It is a statement about how much evidence we hold, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    UNKNOWN (not a soft no, never counted as qualified). Blocker: No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    Venture backing: not found · Stage band: UNKNOWN — No source states a band-bearing stage for any financing event we hold.

    What would overturn this:

    Assessed 2026-10-24 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
no round
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
no board
eng openings
Commercial
not checked
homepage

Composite signal v0 insufficient evidence — 1 of 5 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. Scores publish at 2+ evidence lanes; this company's tape carries 1 (4 signals/60d), so no number is claimed.

Traction

No traction data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Current round

No fundraising data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.

Opportunity & risk

No standout signal or flag yet.

10 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

1 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 0 still unproven

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Evaluation

How it's evaluated Four independent layers ▾

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Platform score derived
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Founder self-assessment claimed
8/100
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VIX signals 1 hard signal across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.

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What people are saying 3 signals from 2 voices ▾
Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring No signals collected yet ▾
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Market & funding stage No signals collected yet ▾
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Evidence & scoring

Why this score? Score breakdown ▾
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Raw observations 28 records ▾
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-10-24 normalized 0.90
common_name Mercury observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-01 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 764 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.max_points 0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 superseded 0.20
community.hn.mentions 0 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-09-26 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10357115", "title": "Mercury Spill", "points": 764, "created_at": "2015-10-08"} observed artifact ↗ 2015-10-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {} observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-08 normalized 0.20
description A financial technology company that simplifies business finances and provides banking services through Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank and Trust. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-01 normalized 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-09-28 normalized 0.50
signal.attributed_claims 1 observed intelligence.claims 2026-09-26 parsed 0.90
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4FFSA39F3YDATNW7AE45V2N", "signals": [{"quote": "Command's judgment calls are genuinely good. It does the obvious things like looking at the vendor, but it also invest observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-09 superseded 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4FFSA39F3YDATNW7AE45V2N", "signals": [{"quote": "Command's judgment calls are genuinely good. It does the obvious things like looking at the vendor, but it also invest observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-03 superseded 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4FFSA39F3YDATNW7AE45V2N", "signals": [{"quote": "Command's judgment calls are genuinely good. It does the obvious things like looking at the vendor, but it also invest observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-03 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4FPA3P22PPVXN1ZWY9HMSWN", "signals": [{"quote": "As the podcast has grown, I've had to deal with more and more operational overhead. Take paying bills. In the past, co observed artifact ↗ 2026-06-26 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M4ZQX87CH06JCM7PTR8XTE61", "signals": [{"quote": "I am a very happy, you know, Mercury personal account customer. I'm also a Chase customer. And, you know, ideally I sh observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-15 promoted 0.50
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