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Brex | Engineer - Frontend/Full Stack/Backend/Infra | Onsite | Full-Time | SF, NYC, Vancouver Brex is building the next generation of B2B financial services with better tech and wi…

Thanks for the questions! To your first point, there's definitely some potential interaction between our customers. We're not quite sure what that will look like right now, but we …

We handle fraud in-house through a joint effort of a variety of teams (customer experience, operations, engineering, etc.) and even have a webpage dedicated to it https://brex.com/…

Thanks for the feedback and totally understand where you're coming from. We're working on adding these security measures in the near term. We care a lot about security too - one of…

We leverage merchant level data that's provided by the networks as an input into our auto categorization system, which uses Google Places API and some simple machine learning. We t…

Great question! 1.) 7x on rideshare is a lot but if you think about the portfolio of spend for a company, most of it is not on rideshare. Since our offering is superior, people usu…

Hi HN, Henrique here from Brex. We just launched a corporate card specially tailored for life sciences companies ( https://brex.com/industry/life-sciences ), and every time we laun…

Hey HN - Brex is excited to bring you our podcast on startups and founders: The Foundry with Chris Read. The podcast focuses on how leading startups are building the future, and th…

Hey, thanks for reading. Yes we should have been more clear that generalizing our data implies that "61% of startups use Copper", but as we don't have universal coverage across eve…

Exactly.

Sure, it might be interesting to compare rounds this way, on how long each round is planned to last.

Thanks, we'll make that clearer in our next iteration.

We can definitely add a runway / months to exhaustion to our next analysis.

Obviously belongs on every real HN thread

Great data here, thanks! Yes, part of the difficulty of this analysis is the low number of graduates makes it hard to see what's causal.

Thanks! Burn rate is inclusive of payroll, yes. Everything that eventually hits the bank account will be included in the burn rate.

Yes, all worthwhile normalizations!

Agreed that from a data perspective, it would be fascinating to see how an investment regime shift would change these benchmark indicators, which should also be useful to startups.…

But startups don't just raise money because they need it, they also have to be given it. That said, there is a question of what parts of this are causal that we plan to tease apart…

Right, we would define what you're pointing to as a subset of cash flow - you are specifically highlighting "liquidity" when you talk about the lag there, but I agree we could have…