Henrique Dubugras is a Brazilian Entrepreneur in the Fintech industry known for his contributions in payment processing technology. ^{[7] [2] [0]} He is the co-founder of Brex, a company that offers a Corporate Credit card for Startups. ^[3]

Henrique was born and raised in his native country of Brazil. He is from the São Paulo region and attended E.E. Deputado Benedito Matarazzo. ^[6]

As a teenager, he became a proficient coder and software engineering became his focus along with Educational projects.

^[0]He became involved for several companies and even traveled to Berlin for a temporary job. ^[7]

He met his future collaborator and Co-Founder of two companies, Pedro Franceschi, on Twitter while debating whether Emacs or vim is the better editor. Two instantly hit it off, and by their senior year in high school, they would become highly known in the Fintech industry by major investors. Both friends co-founded Pagar.me, a payments company. ^[7]

For the most part it appears that Henrique is a self-taught coder and programmer, along with knowledge related to Hardware- he built his own Servers when he was 12 years old. ^[7]

Years later after the success of his company, Pagar.me, he wold move to Silicon Valley and attend Stanford University. He would drop after a few months to be a part of Y Combinator. ^{[3] [5]}

Since a young boy, Henrique has had a passion for Coding and at the age of 12 years old he began building his own Servers so that he parents wouldn't spend money. He also started to monetize. ^[7]

From 2010-2013, he became a part of several projects along with starting companies of his own.

He was a tech leader for Ingresse and later an iOS developer for a company called Views in Berlin. ^[0]

After starting two educational projects, one of them a crowdfund for Latin American students to gain better access to high education - he started Pagar.Me with Pedro Franceschi, whom would become a future collaborator. ^[0]

In 2013, he started Pagar.Me,

a Fintech project that would later become a serious payments company processing more than 1.5 billion transactions in GMV. He

started the company while in his senior year in high school along with Pedro Franceschi. The

company would grow to more than 100 people before being sold for millions of dollars to Stone. ^[0] [16]

After moving to Silicon Valley with Franceschi to begin their freshmen year at Stanford University, the two would eventually dropout as their project called Brex was accepted by Y Combinator as part of their Winter 2017 batch. ^[3] [18]

By late 2017, the company secured a series A by several private and accredited investors.

In 2018, the company has raised a Series C in funding with more than $182.1 Million.

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