Pedro Franceschi

About Pedro Franceschi

Pedro Franceschi is co-CEO of Brex, a fintech startup aiming to overhaul the corporate credit card.

He met cofounder Henrique Dubugras in a Twitter argument in 2012, when they were both high school seniors living in their home country of Brazil.

In 2013, the pair launched a payments startup, Pagar.me, for small business in Brazil and sold it to a larger Brazilian rival in 2015.

Franceschi grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and attended Stanford with Dubugras for less than a year before they dropped out to start Brex in 2017.

He became a billionaire in January 2022, when Brex--based in California--raised money from private investors who valued the company at $12.3 billion.