Brex picks up $57M to build an easy credit card for startups

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effectively a credit card that they can use without having to personally guarantee that card or wade through complex processes to finally
get a charge card
already picking up larger clients
Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Yuri Milner, financial services VC Ribbit Capital and former Visa CEO Carl Pascarella
They then use that banking information to underwrite the card, with the idea being that the service can see that the start has raised
Once the application is done, companies get a virtual credit card, and they can start divvying up virtual cards with custom limits for their
spending limits, and also offer company executives more granular ways to assign those limits to employees
The cards have to be paid off by the end of the month, and the rolling balance for those cards is dependent on the amount of capital each
startup has available
bank account and adjust the spending limit for all those cards accordingly.Another aspect is automating the whole expense and auditing
process
Rather than just going through typical applications like Concur and inputting specifics, card users can send a text message of a receipt
through Brex associated with each transaction
text with a message of the receipt to log the whole process
down with complex layers of enterprise software
Rather than slotting into existing systems, Brex has an opportunity to recreate the back-end processes that power those cards, which larger
on and sold Pagar.me, a Brazilian payments processor, where they saw firsthand the complex nature of working with global financial
Users still have to pay off the balance at the end of the month, but the idea there is that Brex can de-risk itself by doing that while
still offering startups a way to get a card with a high limit to start paying for the services or tools they need to get started.