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by pavlov 2435 days ago
Startup idea: Create the globalized equivalent of Silicon Valley Bank in Estonia — a local bank that serves credible startups around the world, with staff that has the competence to evaluate customers’ tech chops.
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There are already a dozen for these "fintech" companies. They offers cards and virtual IBAN (which is as good as a regular IBAN).

1. They expensive (like 30euro/months) for what the banks offer for free.

2. No credit cards / Credit lines.

3. No investment accounts (though I'd avoid banks for brokerage).

Literally any creepy bank will be better than SVB, no?
No need to imitate anything about the actual SVB, just like "Uber for X" doesn't mean you'd necessarily want to follow Uber's business or engineering practices :)