Where does Pedro Franceschi work?

Pedro Franceschi is Founder of Brex.

What check size does Pedro Franceschi write?

Pedro Franceschi typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.

What boards does Pedro Franceschi sit on?

Pedro Franceschi holds tracked board seats at Coupang.

What companies has Pedro Franceschi invested in?

Investments tracked here include Brex, Fruitful, NG.CASH, Repool, Retool, Weav.

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.

Pedro Franceschi

InvestorUnicorn founder

Founder at Brex

San Francisco, CA

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

FoundedBrex$12.3B · YC

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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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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.

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Founder at Brex YC W17

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Brex's investors · 71

137 VenturesSan Francisco 1435 CapitalSkillman Aliya Capital PartnersMiami Altos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checks Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks ArpexCapital Baillie GiffordEdinburgh Ballistic VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks Base10 PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks Bond Capital ManagementSan Francisco · $100K – $25M checks · since 2019 BoxGroupNew York · $250K – $1M checks Caffeinated CapitalSan Francisco · $3M – $50M checks Coinbase VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks Credit SuisseZurich Draft Ventures LlcSan Francisco Dragoneer Investment GroupSan Francisco · $100K – $5M checks · since 2021 DST GlobalGeorge Town, Grand Cayman · since 2026 Durable Capital PartnersBethesda Elad GilSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks Endeavor CatalystNew York Evolution VC PartnersNew York Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks Fifth WallLos Angeles · $250K – $100M checks Firebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcPalo Alto Flucas VenturesJupiter · $100K – $5M checks Fractal G SquaredChicago G2C Venture PartnersPalo Alto GaingelsNew York · $200K – $500K checks Global Founders CapitalBerlin · $1M checks GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks Greyhound CapitalUnknown Human CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $200M checks IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checks · since 2018 Jam FundLos Angeles · $500K – $20M checks Khosla VenturesMenlo Park · $100K – $20M checks Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks · since 2026 Knockout CapitalSan Francisco Lombardstreet VenturesWoodside · $500K checks Loric VenturesLondon MastrySan Francisco Mindset VentureSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checks Mubadala CapitalAbu Dhabi · $1M – $50M checks Next Play VenturesMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checks Nomadic Venture PartnersDenver · $1M – $5M checks One Way VenturesNew York · $500K – $1.5M checks Open Opportunity FundAtlanta · $100K – $1M checks Ossian CapitalMiami OUTBOUND CAPITALSaratoga Springs Peter Thielsince 2018 PitangoTel Aviv · $2M – $40M checks Ribbit CapitalPalo Alto · $2M – $15M checks · since 2026 Sand Hill AngelsMenlo Park · $50K – $2M checks SciFi VCSan Francisco · $100K – $1M checks SGBBilbao SoftBank Vision FundLondon Sound VenturesSanta Monica Standard CapitalSan Francisco SV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checks TCMGermantown TCVMenlo Park · $10M – $500M checks Thiel CapitalNew York Tiger Global ManagementNew York · $1M – $100M checks · since 2021 Toba CapitalLos Angeles · $1M – $10M checks Utopian VenturesSan Francisco · $25K – $200K checks Valiant Peregrine SpecialSan Francisco VamosVenturesLos Angeles · $2M checks · since 2022 Venture Investment AssociatesPeapack WealthUnion$10K checks Winslow CapitalMinneapolis Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2017

Co-founders at Brex

Henrique DubugrasFounder

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.jsUMLJavaScriptJava

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Coupang

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Brex Fruitful NG.CASH Repool RetoolWeav

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Podcasts & interviews

featuring Pedro Franceschi

"The CEO Must Be the Chief AI Officer"

Lightcone

He Hacked Finance And Is Now Building An AI CEO

Core Memory · corememory.com

What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company

20VC · thetwentyminutevc.com

An Interview With Brex Co-Founder Pedro Franceschi

Stratechery · stratechery.com

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Caio BolognesiScout

General Partner at Monashees

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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 Founder 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.
What companies has Pedro Franceschi invested in?: Investments tracked here include Brex, Fruitful, NG.CASH, Repool, Retool, Weav.
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.