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Commerce · May 3, 2023

Bend

A modern corporate card built for climate-friendly business

Bend launched on May 3, 2023 with 139 votes, #296 of 4,910 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

What it does

With Bend any company or organization can automatically track and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (for free!) as they earn 4% yield on deposits, and carbon removal credits with every purchase.

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    Bend (YC S22) A climate-friendly corporate card ($100 to try it)2023 · usebend.com · ▲43

    Hi HN! We’re Ted and Thomas from Bend (YC S22). Today we’re launching a modern corporate card built for climate-friendly business. Just by shifting some of your company spending to Bend, you’ll be helping to reduce climate-changing emissions, thanks to the carbon removal rewards you’ll automatically earn, and our embedded climate analytics. But we know that signing up for a new financial service can take some upfront effort, so we wanted to sweeten the deal — create an account today (Friday Apr 21), and we’ll deposit a *$100 gift* in your account to start spending immediately — see the site…

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    Bend 2.0 API for transaction enrichment/CO2e estimates2024 · docs.bend.green · ▲8

    Heyy HN. We’re celebrating 2 years of Bend’s existence as a company and we’ve launched a new API to help you understand the climate impact of business activity, and/or embed climate data in your application. For most companies, 80% of your emissions are from the goods and services that you buy. Unless you’re running a power plant or an airline, odds are you’re not directly combusting lots of fossil fuels. But literally everything we buy has some upstream climate impact, whether it’s the flights and Ubers that we purchase, or our AWS bills (that run on grids powered by natural gas), all…

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