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🌱 Brex’s 2025 Spring Release is here! It brings a whole new level of customization and control to how you manage spend. Discover custom fields that bring your own data into Brex, custom roles with granular permissions, AI-assisted vendor management, and a new AI policy engine that can make any rule a reality. You’ll also find a new invoicing product built into our banking solution, a new admin home page, and more. Customize anything. Control everything. See what’s new in Brex’s Spring Release: https://bit.ly/4it0SJ2

We just wrapped our first-ever Brex Customer Meetup in San Francisco, and what a night it was. ✨ A big thank you to our co-hosts, SeatGeek and Planful, for helping make it a meaningful and memorable evening. These meetups are designed to bring our community together—to create space for real conversations, shared insights, and new connections. We’re walking away energized by the dialogue and already looking ahead to next week’s event in New York. If you’re joining us there, we’re looking forward to seeing you!

Send. Track. Get paid—faster. 💸 With invoicing now built right into your Brex business account, it's easier than ever to send invoices, track payments, and get paid even quicker when customers pay from their own Brex business account.

As a founder, you don’t have to do it all—nor should you. The key to success is recognizing your weaknesses and hiring strategically to turn them into strengths. That’s the biggest lesson Sophia Goldberg, founder of Ansa, learned on her entrepreneurial journey. Interested in learning more? Tune into the FinTech Mavericks podcast hosted by Nicole Casperson and Drew Glover: https://spoti.fi/3E2uKgY

Miami Tech Week 2025: Hosted by Traded: Venture Capital, Litquidity, and Brex, we are bringing together Miami Tech Week's VIPs: top investors, founders, executives, influencers, and builders. There will be lots of media, fun surprises, and special guests. Only a few spots left, apply to join us: https://lu.ma/33hzm0vk | Thursday, April 10th Michael Morgenstern Colton Cray

Seeing your company’s billboard light up NYC? Bucket list material.🌟 Just ask founder Zoya Lehrer—she and her team at Orgo shared an unforgettable moment as their ad took center stage in Times Square. With Brex rewards, we helped turn that vision into reality, and want to do the same for founders everywhere.

Fraud attempts are getting more sophisticated, but the right safeguards make all the difference. Brex approval workflows helped catch this one for the Arcade team before it cost thousands—proof that strong processes matter.

For our first Upstarts Media newsletter, I dug into Granola, the AI meeting notes app that's become a favorite tool of VCs and founders, growing 10% weekly. Granola CEO Christopher Pedregal spoke to me about his plans for a "tool for thought" and the crowded AI note-taking startup field. Why start with Granola? For weeks, I was hearing about the product from VCs and startup testers. So in the weeks leading up to launching Upstarts, I tested out the product across 25+ audience feedback calls. It was the first note-taker I actually enjoyed using. Granola raised a $20M Series A in October but is in a crowded category, with a number of better-funded, larger startup peers. Building a lasting business is its upcoming challenge. Thanks to Olivia Moore, Grace Isford, Nabeel Hyatt, Laura Kinder, Crunchbase and Similarweb for their thoughts and data for the story! And a big thank you to our launch partner Brex for helping ensure this newsletter post is free for all Upstarts subscribers. https://lnkd.in/eBG9X7rc

A lot can happen in a month—March was no exception. Let’s break down the latest releases and updates from the past few weeks. ⤵️

Tax season got you repeating, “this is fine”? 😅 Use Brex—then you can say “this is fine” and mean it. Automate the tedious stuff like W-9 collection and 1099 prep with AI, and turn chaos to calm.