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Bento for Business
Full-Featured Employee Expense Cards Exclusively For Business
About Bento for Business
Bento for Business offers a comprehensive business spending management solution tailored for small businesses. The platform allows companies to manage all business expenses, excluding payroll and bonuses, through various types of cards such as T&E cards, purchasing cards, vendor-specific cards, and subscription cards. Additionally, businesses can pay invoices using virtual cards or ACH, all from a single, secure platform.
Bento's primary market includes small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking to streamline their expense management processes. The business model revolves around providing a subscription-based service that offers significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. By leveraging Bento's platform, customers can set daily spending limits, restrict merchant categories, and prevent unauthorized transactions, thereby reducing unnecessary spending by over 15% on average.
The company generates revenue through subscription fees for its platform, which offers various tiers of service depending on the needs of the business. Bento's value proposition includes not only cost savings but also time savings, as the platform eliminates the need for approval workflows and cumbersome expense reports. This allows businesses to focus more on growth and less on administrative tasks.
Source: Dealroom company dataAt a glance
- Status
- Acquired
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Employees
- 24
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 57.9/100
- Industry
- Fintech
- Sub-industry
- Financial Management Solutions
- Sector
- Fintech, Freelancers, Accounting, Money Management, Risk Management, SaaS, Entertainment, Messaging, Banking, Reporting, Community
- Business model
- SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACQUISITION✓Exit | Aug 2021 | $0 | — | U.S. Bank | — |
| DEBTDebt | Mar 2021 | $6M | — | Undisclosed | — |
Growth signals
Latest recorded traffic for Bento for Business is 330 monthly website visits, down 13.2% over the last three months. Bento for Business's team grew 0% over the past year.
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Investments and acquisitions
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Investors
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Seed4 investors entered at this stage
Moderne Ventures
Comcast Ventures
Blumberg Capital
LionBird
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Anthemis Group
Edison Partners
MissionOG
Other known investors5 additional known investors
U.S. BankFemale Innovators Lab
Moderne Passport
Pivot Investment Partners
Plug and Play
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
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