Pedro Franceschi is Brazilian Entrepreneur and Software developer known for being the co-founder of Brex, a company that offers corporate credit cards to startup companies in the tech industry. ^{[1] [undefined]} He has been featured in Forbes 30 under 30 along with his collaborator Henrique Dubugras. ^{[undefined] [undefined]}

Pedro was born and raised in his home country of Brazil and grew up in Rio de Janeiro for most of his upbringing. ^[undefined] When he was kid at the age of 9 years old he became passionate about Software engineering and by the time he was 12 years old, he was able to unlock the iPhone 3G. Years later he helped design features for Siri to speak in Portuguese. ^[undefined]

He would meet his future collaborator and co-founder, Henrique Dubugras, on Twitter over a debate regarding whether Emacs or vim is the better editor. ^[undefined]

He briefly attended Stanford University before dropping out to embark on his mission to build his next project Brex, which was accepted into Y Combinator's batch for Winter of 2017. ^{[1] [undefined]}

Franceschi has been a Software engineer of several projects since he was teenager. He worked Brainjuice, Sync Mobile, and M4U. ^[1]

As a teenager, he also created an app called Quasar.

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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 Dubugras. The

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

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After moving to Silicon Valley with Dubugras 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.

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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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