Open Announces Business Card for Startups & SMEs in Partnership with Visa

Fintech startup Open which offers a business banking platform for small businesses has announced a partnership with Visa to launch ‘Founders Card’, a Business credit card that will enable startups and SMEs to seamlessly manage expenses and vendor payouts.

The card, which is the first of its kind in Asia, will come integrated with tools like expense management and subscription management that will help business owners and finance teams manage subscriptions and expenses better. The card also comes with an exclusive rewards program designed specifically for startups and small businesses. The announcement took place at the Singapore Fintech Festival on November 11, 2019.

Founded in 2017, Open is solving business banking challenges by offering a business banking platform that helps SMEs and startups automate and run their finances effectively. Open has all the tools that help businesses send and receive payments combined with the automated bookkeeping tool to integrate banking into their business workflows. The Open platform today has already grown to over 200,000 SMEs and processing over USD 6.5 billion in transactions. The platform also adds over 35,000 SMEs every month, making it the fastest-growing SME focused business banking platform globally.

Commenting on this announcement, Anish Achuthan, Co-founder & CEO, Open said, “SMEs and startups are growing at a tremendous pace in Southeast Asia. We’ve announced this at a time when it is the need of the hour for businesses who depend a lot on online tools that accept only credit cards. We’re excited to have Visa in this journey to ease business banking for the ever-increasing SME market. This partnership is a boost for Open as we look to expand our customer base to other markets in the Asia-Pacific Region, United States, and the Middle East in the coming months.”

T.R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager India & South Asia Visa said, “Visa is delighted to partner with Open and introduce the exciting Founders Card that will give SMEs and startups the power to manage their finances effectively. Visa launched the Fintech Fast Track program last year in India to support homegrown startups and we are keen to help young businesses automate payments with our commercial solutions.”