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San Francisco, California

5.0/ 5

2 reviews

Brex is an American financial technology and software company that specializes in providing corporate credit cards, business accounts, spend management software, and expense tracking tools. Founded on January 3, 2017, by Brazilian entrepreneurs Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, the company was initially conceived as a virtual reality startup during its time in the Y Combinator accelerator program. Within weeks, the founders pivoted to fintech to solve corporate banking friction for fast-growing startups that lacked extensive credit histories but possessed significant venture backing. Operating heavily as an AI-driven spend platform, Brex modernizes financial operations for over 35,000 entities, ranging from early-stage tech firms to large-scale global enterprises like DoorDash, Robinhood, and SeatGeek. The company's core platform integrates multiple business financial services into a unified financial operating system. This stack includes corporate cards with built-in spending controls, real-time expense management software utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning for automated bookkeeping, centralized travel booking, automated bill pay, and multi-tier banking and treasury management. Through these tools, Brex allows finance teams to control spending before it happens and cuts manual expense reporting workloads by roughly 90%. Throughout its history, Brex scaled into one of the fastest unicorn trajectories in fintech, transitioning over the years into a enterprise software engine through milestones like the 2022 launch of Brex Empower. Financially, Brex raised a total of $2.3 billion in equity financing from premier institutional investors, including Greenoaks Capital, DST Global, IVP, Tiger Global, Kleiner Perkins, and Y Combinator, alongside fintech veterans Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, reaching a peak private evaluation of $12.3 billion in late 2021. In April 2026, the company was officially acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion in an equal mix of cash and stock, operating going forward as a major subsidiary within Capital One's broader commercial and business payments ecosystem. The strategic acquisition effectively accelerated Capital One's expansion into corporate travel and business payment marketplaces. Currently led by Chairman Henrique Dubugras and CEO Pedro Franceschi, the company employs over 1,800 people and manages operations under a flexible, remote-first operational framework. Headquartered again in South of Market, San Francisco, California, after a brief period of operating headquarterless, Brex continues to scale its global product footprint, including obtaining licenses to expand its autonomous finance services to enterprise customers across the European Union and in over 120 countries worldwide.