São Paulo Coding Prodigy
Growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, Henrique Dubugras began coding video games at age 12. At 16, alongside Pedro Franceschi, he co-founded payments gateway Pagar.me, scaling it to over $1.5 billion in volume before selling it to Stone for tens of millions.
Stanford Dropout & Inception of Brex
Enrolling at Stanford University in 2016, Dubugras and Franceschi observed that well-funded Silicon Valley startups could not get basic corporate credit cards from legacy banks without personal guarantees. They dropped out after eight months and entered Y Combinator in 2017 to launch Brex.
The $12.3B Corporate Spend Platform
Brex evolved from startup corporate cards into a comprehensive financial operating platform unifying corporate spend, bill pay, travel, and treasury accounts for global enterprises like DoorDash, SeatGeek, and Coinbase.
