Pedro Franceschi
InvestorUnicorn founderCo-founder & CEO at Brex
San Francisco, CA
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
FoundedBrex$12.3B · YC
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95 people in our graph share verified history with Pedro — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
Katie BiberunlockedPedro: together at Brex (2020–2022)
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About
Pedro Franceschi took sole control of Brex in June 2024, declared its turnaround over at $700 million of annualized revenue growing 50%, and sold it to Capital One for $5.15 billion in April 2026 — staying on as CEO. A Rio de Janeiro prodigy who taught himself to code at eight, he was among the early iPhone jailbreakers and reverse-engineered Nuance's speech API to make Siri understand Portuguese before Apple did. He met Henrique Dubugras through a Twitter argument in high school, co-founded the payments company Pagar.me with him at 16 and sold it to Stone, dropped out of Stanford after eight months for Y Combinator, and sits on Coupang's board.
Deal analysis
- Brex × Capital One: who got paid on a down exit
An estimated liquidation waterfall of the $5.15bn exit: the 2021 rounds took their money back at par, the 2017 seed made ~111x, and Ribbit managed both in the same deal.
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Likely emails· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published
- p•••@brex.comreveal90% confident
- p•••@brex.comreveal80% confident
- p•••@brex.comreveal75% confident
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Met Henrique Dubugras through a Twitter argument while both were Brazilian high-schoolers; they co-founded Pagar.me the next year. Franceschi co-founded Brex, a company reimagining financial systems for fast-growing businesses, launched in 2018. Franceschi co-founded the payment company Pagar.me, which was acquired by Stone, one of the largest payments companies in Brazil.
- Boards
- Independent director of Coupang (NYSE: CPNG) since March 2022.
- More
- Self-taught programmer from age eight; as a young teenager he was among the early iPhone jailbreakers, and his Quick2GPwner tweak drew about 17,000 downloads in five days. In January 2012 he reverse-engineered Siri's protocol and Nuance's speech API to make Siri understand Portuguese before Apple supported it — Apple's lawyers told him to stop. Became sole CEO of Brex on June 12, 2024, then drove the 'Brex 3.0' restructuring — layoffs and a flatter organization. Declared the turnaround over in September 2025: $700M annualized revenue, up 50% year over year, and Brex's first operating-cash-flow-positive month.
Mentioned above: the Stone mafia → · the Coupang mafia →
From published sources — common ground for a warm intro.
Co-founder & CEO at BrexYC W17
Intro paths
YC
Pedro went through Y Combinator (Winter 2017) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Pedro can intro founders to Brex's investors below.
Brex's investors · 37
137 VenturesSan FranciscoAltos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checksBallistic VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checksBase10 PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checksCaffeinated CapitalSan Francisco · $3M – $50M checksCoinbase VenturesStamford · $100K – $10M checksCredit SuisseDST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · $100K – $200M checks · since 2026Evolution VC PartnersNew YorkFelicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksFlucas VenturesJupiter · $100K – $5M checksGlobal Founders CapitalBerlin · $637K – $32M checksGreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checksHuman CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $200M checksIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksJam FundLos Angeles · $500K – $20M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks · since 2026Lombardstreet VenturesWoodside · $500K checksMastrySan FranciscoMindset VentureSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checksNext Play VenturesMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checksOne Way VenturesNew York · $500K – $1.5M checksOpen Opportunity FundAtlanta · $100K – $1M checksOssian CapitalOUTBOUND CAPITALSaratoga SpringsOyster VenturesSan Francisco · $25K – $200K checksRibbit CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $15M checks · since 2026Sand Hill AngelsMenlo Park · $50K – $2M checksSciFi VCSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checksStandard CapitalSan FranciscoSV AngelSan FranciscoTCVMenlo Park · $10M – $500M checksTiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checksToba CapitalIrvine · $1M – $10M checksVamosVenturesLos Angeles · $2M checksWealthUnion$10K checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2017
Co-founders at Brex
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Henrique DubugrasCo-CEO
Experience
- BrexFounder and CEOcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- CoupangBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
- StoneBoard Member2021 — 2023
- Pagar.me Pagamentos S.A.Founder2013 — 2016Greater São Paulo Area
- M4USoftware Engineer2011 — 2013
- Sync MobileSoftware Engineer2010 — 2011
- BrainjuiceSoftware Engineer2009 — 2010
Skills & more
Mobile Devices54Mobile Applications56Software Development20iOS development16Scrum14Web Services18Web Applications30iOS Development6Web Development14MySQL19Linux12Objective-C22
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UnixCRuby on RailsNode.jsUMLJavaScriptJavaFrom Pedro's professional profile.
Investments
Board seats
Coupang
Per curated public sources.
Podcasts & interviews
featuring Pedro FranceschiNetwork1
Investors connected to Pedro in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Pedro Franceschi?
- Pedro Franceschi took sole control of Brex in June 2024, declared its turnaround over at $700 million of annualized revenue growing 50%, and sold it to Capital One for $5.15 billion in April 2026 — staying on as CEO. A Rio de Janeiro prodigy who taught himself to code at eight, he was among the early iPhone jailbreakers and reverse-engineered Nuance's speech API to make Siri understand Portuguese before Apple did. He met Henrique Dubugras through a Twitter argument in high school, co-founded the payments company Pagar.me with him at 16 and sold it to Stone, dropped out of Stanford after eight months for Y Combinator, and sits on Coupang's board.
- Where does Pedro Franceschi work?
- Pedro Franceschi is Co-founder & CEO of Brex.
- What check size does Pedro Franceschi write?
- Pedro Franceschi typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
- What companies did Pedro Franceschi found?
- Pedro Franceschi founded Brex.
- What boards does Pedro Franceschi sit on?
- Pedro Franceschi holds tracked board seats at Coupang.
- Where did Pedro Franceschi go to school?
- Pedro Franceschi studied at Stanford University (Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science).
- What podcasts and interviews feature Pedro Franceschi?
- Tracked appearances include ""The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"", "He Hacked Finance And Is Now Building An AI CEO", "What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company", and 1 more.
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Y Combinator mafia10,230
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Stone mafia7
Also came through, then founded or led a company.
Henrique DubugrasCo-founder of Pagar.me (acquired by Stone)Founded BrexBele FuriniLinx Acquisition teamFounded AliceLucas MartinsPartner, Investor RelationsFounded VerdeLucas MantovaniSoftware EngineerFounded VelvetGabriel NoyaSoftware EngineerFounded LyonLucca FreirePartner | Product – Banking Micro BusinessesFounded UnblockPay
Coupang mafia6
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Vladimir ShinSenior, Principal Software Engineer | Group Technical LeadFounded Integral Health +1David FrankelSeed InvestorFounded Founder CollectiveAndrew LiuTech Lead / Staff Software Engineer IIFounded 1stCollabQi ZhangStaff Software EngineerFounded StarJarAlex HongSr. Brand Manager - AppleFounded Syncly
Same school
Also attended Stanford University2,000
Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at Brex63
Henrique DubugrasCo-founder & former chairman of BrexKatie BiberChief Operating Officer at ParadigmMatt MocharyInvestor at Fortius VenturesCarmen CollynsHead of Investor Relations at CAVU Consumer PartnersHadley CallawaySoftware Engineer at Asymmetric Capital PartnersKam JamshidianOperating Partner at Shine Capital
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Also worked at Coupang20
David FrankelSeed Stage Venture Capital in the United StatesBrad KotanskyVenture Partner at Copper Sky CapitalCindy PadnosFounder and Managing Partner at Illuminate VenturesJai ChoiCo-founder and Managing Partner of Tekton VenturesDing ZhouHead of Content Engineering at Snap, Inc. at SignalFireAdam NguyenExecutive Director, Southeast Asia at Sora Ventures
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Also worked at Stone10
Daniel GutenbergVenture Partner at VI PartnersBele FuriniAssociate at Onevc Venture Partners LlcFernando HammesMarketing Associate at BDev VenturesRodrigo ReifAngel at Allievo CapitalRicardo GottschalkFounder at Conta SimplesMarcos Oliveira JrFounder at fluke
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