Brex YC Application
Brex went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 batch as a Fintech company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.
- YC batch
- Winter 2017
- Industry
- FintechBanking and Exchange
- Team size
- 1000
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2016
Founders
Henrique DubugrasFounder/CEO
Pedro FranceschiFounder
What Brex does
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform for modern companies, from startups to enterprises. Combining corporate cards, expense management, travel, business accounts, and bill pay, Brex makes it easy to control spend before it happens with unprecedented efficiency and accuracy. Our mission is to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions, so we designed our platform to make expenses almost effortless with unrivaled automation of manual expense work and real-time tracking. Brex supports more countries and currencies than any other spend solution. Brex has tens of thousands of customers, including some of the most successful, high-growth companies, such as DoorDash, SeatGeek, Coinbase, ScaleAI, MasterClass, Indeed, Allbirds, and Superhuman. Brex offers: - Corporate cards with 10-20x higher limits - Business accounts with easy wires, same-day liquidity, fast global payments, and $6M in FDIC insurance - Reward options that include billboards, offsites, and coaching - Founder-friendly financial modeling tools - Special events and masterclasses for founders - Advanced spend management software as startups grow that includes global capabilities, travel, bill pay and more.
Brex's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Brex, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Brex
Business accounts, corporate cards, spend mgmt software
We are building a platform that combines corporate cards with much higher limits, business accounts with fast wire transfers and FDIC insurance, and spend management tools to help companies track and control expenses in real time. The tool covers startups to larger enterprises and supports multiple countries and currencies. The goal is to automate expense reporting and give finance teams better control before spend happens.
We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here.
San Francisco is our base because it's where our network is, customers are, and where fintech and startups thrive. This also helps us recruit and stay close to key payments partners.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Brex YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Brex's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Brex would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Brex in?
Brex was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch.
Who founded Brex?
Brex was founded by Henrique Dubugras, Pedro Franceschi.
What does Brex do?
Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Brex's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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