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Audience Choice: Vote for the roundtable sessions you want to see most at Disrupt
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Fintech investors appear to be favoring later-stage deals as sector takes a hit, recent data shows
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All this startup news, and we didn’t even talk about Juul
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today Natasha and Alex were on the mics, kicking back and riffing t
Brex says it did a ‘poor job’ explaining its decision to cut off SMBs
Brex’s announcement last week that it would stop serving small-to-medium-sized businesses shocked — and upset — many in its suddenness and delivery. The fintech decacorn, which started its life
Selling to startups is not the same as selling to SMBs
Brex's recent decision to exit part of the SMB market was big news. In this context, we want to talk about just what an SMB is and how not all small accounts are the same.
Fintech’s fever can’t make up its mind
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single to
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras will share his company’s founding story at TechCrunch Disrupt
Henrique Dubugras, founder and co-CEO of Brex, will join Anu Hariharan, the managing director and partner at Y Combinator, for a fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18-20 in San Francisco.
Why did Brex really decide to ditch SMBs?
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Another brutal week for crypto and crypto companies
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Brex leaving adrift some SMB customers roils corporate spend market
Given how competitive the corporate spend world has proved, Brex has kicked off an interesting strategic conversation in the well-funded fintech startup niche. Let’s talk about it.
As Brex exits the SMB space, its CEO says that doesn’t include startups … at least the funded ones
Brex’s decision to stop serving SMB customers surprised many in the startup and fintech community. TechCrunch spoke with CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras to learn more about what drove the decis
Brex, which started out serving startups, now says it is ‘less suited to meet the needs of smaller customers’
Three months after announcing it would make a big push into software and enterprise, fintech giant Brex is apparently abandoning the very segment it started out to serve — small to medium-sized
Juni jumps on $206M to help e-commerce players manage their own money better
The e-commerce market is on track to pass $5.5 trillion in revenues this year, which speaks not only to how much consumers are shopping online these days, but also to how many businesses there are out
Here’s why Brex just paid $90M for 10-person software startup Pry Financials
In line with its April 13 announcement that it’s making a “big push” into software, Brex has acquired Y Combinator-backed Pry Financials for $90 million, the company told TechCrunch exclusively.
Expense management provider Emburse goes head-to-head with Brex and Ramp
With 12 million users and nearly $200 million in annual recurring revenue, expense software provider Emburse has built much of its business in the enterprise. Historically, it has competed with legacy
Fintech Brex bets big on software, lands DoorDash as a customer
The corporate spend space continues to heat up. Today, decacorn Brex revealed that it is making a big push into financial software with the release of a new spend management product called Brex Empowe
Starlight shoots for the moon, aiming to build the Brex of crypto
Companies are scrambling to participate in the crypto ecosystem, but many of the tools available for them to use are disjointed and not user-friendly, especially for those new to web3. New York-based
These Y Combinator-backed startups want to build the next Brex
At least four startups at Y Combinator’s W22 batch – from three different regions – referred to themselves as the “Brex for" their particular geography.
A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YC’s winter 2022 Demo Day
As more banking, e-commerce and insurance startups work to improve the way business is done in emerging countries, it should come as no surprise that this winter’s Y Combinator batch is rife with re
The latest list of YC-backed companies worth over $150M is the most geographically diverse yet
In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. Over the past four years, it’s updated the list to ref