10,000 Canadian Businesses Now Run on Venn - thank you for trusting us.

Nearly three years ago we launched Venn to the market with a simple belief that Canadian businesses deserved better than what the banks were offering. Today, we're proud to share that 10,000 businesses are now running their finances on Venn.

What makes this moment meaningful to us is not the number itself. It's who those 10,000 businesses are and what they've built while trusting us to help run their finances along the way.

When we started, we had a picture in our heads of who would use Venn. What we didn't expect was how quickly reality would outgrow it. Some of our customers are exactly who we imagined building for. Many of them are not, and that's been one of the most rewarding parts of this journey.

From Canadian companies building infrastructure in the most remote regions of the country to teams launching rockets into orbit, the range of businesses building on Venn has stretched far beyond what we could have imagined when we started. Alongside them are construction companies, contractors, accounting firms, restaurants, agencies, startups, and thousands of founders building companies in every corner of the economy. That range is something we could never have written into the original vision for Venn, and it’s one of the parts of this journey we’re most proud of.

We appreciate every single one of you. The trust you've placed in us and the feedback you send us, every single piece of it, is what has shaped everything we've built and everything we're still building.

When we announced our Series A last year, we had just crossed 3,000 businesses. At the time, that felt like a milestone worth celebrating. Looking back, it was really just the beginning of the most productive stretch we've had as a company. Since then we’ve tripled our team size and shipped across every part of the platform, including invoicing, limit orders, spend policies and automated expense management, Venn Intelligence across multiple layers of the product, Google Pay and Apple Pay, CDIC protection, our incorporation product, and more.

What hasn't changed through any of it is how we operate. Every piece of customer feedback, whether it comes through the app or online, reaches the entire team in real time, and we build on it immediately. That’s not a process we inherited, it’s one we built intentionally and one we have no plans to change.

What motivates us has never been the number. It's watching a business that signed up with us grow into a team using every part of the platform, and knowing that somewhere in that, we made running their business a little faster and a little less expensive than it used to be.

To mark this milestone, we're giving $10,000 to a Venn customer. If you're already on Venn, you're automatically entered. If you're not, you can enter and find full details and terms at venn.ca/10k.

For nearly two centuries, a small number of institutions have run Canadian business banking largely unchallenged. That complacency has shown up in every product, every fee, and every experience businesses have had to accept. It’s left businesses forced to stitch together fragmented finance software just to fill the gaps. Canadian businesses are increasingly competing and scaling on a global stage. They deserve financial infrastructure that moves with them. That is what we are building.

From here, the focus is clear. We are going to keep deepening the products we have today, expand into new ones, and work toward supporting 100,000 businesses on Venn.

Ahmed & Saud

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