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自有银行计划失败后,Standard Treasury 加入硅谷银行
Standard Treasury 为商业客户构建银行 API,随后押注需要自建银行;A轮融资失败后,硅谷银行收购了它。
Standard Treasury
做的是什么生意
Standard Treasury built secure REST APIs, a developer dashboard, SDKs and AML/fraud tooling so commercial clients could connect with their financial institutions programmatically.
起因
Zac Townsend and Dan Kimerling founded Standard Treasury in 2013, convinced that APIs would become the dominant way commercial clients connect with their financial institutions. They said they worked with leading banks in the US and Europe on opening APIs and studied how hundreds of startups consume banking services, believing secure RESTful interfaces would dramatically improve business processes.
经过
In 2014 the pair concluded that the only way to bring the vision to life was to build their own bank. In early 2015, primarily because of regulatory and geographic risk concerns, they could not raise a Series A against that goal. With that door closed they chose to align with a single bank, and Silicon Valley Bank — a partner since almost the very beginning — approached them about being acquired. The deal covered the payments and account-information APIs, developer dashboard, SDKs, and AML and fraud-detection tools the team had built and refined in private user sessions.
结果
Silicon Valley Bank acquired Standard Treasury's assets and team in August 2015. The founders announced it in a blog post that drew a 106-point, 31-comment Hacker News discussion on 2015-08-06, and the team joined SVB to adapt the products to the bank's context and launch them.
背景
Standard Treasury 由 Zac Townsend 和 Dan Kimerling 于 2013 年左右创立,押注 API 将成为商业客户与金融机构连接的主要方式。这家初创公司表示,曾与美国和欧洲的领先银行合作开放 API,研究了数百家初创公司如何消费银行服务,并构建了自己的产品:支付和账户信息 API、开发者仪表板、SDK 以及反洗钱和欺诈检测工具。
2014 年,创始人决定要实现愿景必须自建银行。一年后,这一升级与融资市场相撞:主要由于监管和地域风险,他们未能为该计划筹集到 A 轮融资。他们没有放弃,而是选择与一家银行结盟,而几乎从一开始就是合作伙伴的硅谷银行主动接洽收购事宜。
SVB 于 2015 年 8 月收购了 Standard Treasury 的资产和团队。创始人在一篇博文中宣布了这一交易,该博文在 2015-08-06 引发了 Hacker News 上 106 分、31 条评论的讨论,评论者分为两派:一派尊重他们对失败银行计划的坦诚,另一派希望这家初创公司继续做中间件供应商。团队加入 SVB,将其 API 产品转化为银行服务,结束了这家初创公司作为独立公司的运营。
这件事要成立,得有什么
- API 确实正在成为银行服务的接口,因此最初的押注看起来是对的:银行想要开放 API,初创公司想要以编程方式访问其资金流动。
- 创始人从中间件升级为自建银行,因为他们相信只有银行才能提供他们所设想的更丰富、功能更全的基于 API 的服务。
- 自建银行计划改变了资本方程式:投资者对监管和地域风险望而却步,2015 年初 A 轮融资未能成行。
- SVB 几乎从一开始就支持该公司,因此当融资大门关闭时,被 SVB 收购是通往同一愿景的最快可信途径,而非随机退出。
可借鉴之处
当你的最终目标需要你不拥有的受监管基础设施时,投资者的风险偏好是真正的门槛——拥有你所缺乏的执照的合作伙伴可能是实现同一愿景的最快途径。
后续进展
截至 2015-08-06,Standard Treasury 不再作为独立公司运营:硅谷银行已收购其资产和团队,创始人表示期待为 SVB 环境改造支付和账户 API、开发者仪表板、SDK 和欺诈工具,并推出相应版本。本记录以公告结束;源材料未包含产品在 SVB 内部的后续结果。
资料来源
- Standard Treasury Joins Silicon Valley Bank
- Standard Treasury Acquired by Silicon Valley Bank — Hacker News discussion
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