Awards & Recognition
★Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance (2019/2021)
★Forbes Brazil 30 Under 30 (selected as one of most promising Brazilians)
★Pagar.me won Best in Show award and $25,000 prize by PYMNTS at Harvard
★Selected by Endeavor for promises program (top 20 startups)
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and CEO of Brex (valued at $12.3B at peak, now $3.7B)
→First person to jailbreak iPhone 3G in Brazil at age 12
→Co-founded Pagar.me at 15, sold for tens of millions after processing $1.5B in transactions
→Stanford dropout who pivoted from VR startup to Brex in Y Combinator
→Board member at Coupang (major Korean e-commerce company)
→Raised over $1.2B in funding for Brex from top VCs
→Brazilian immigrant who became a billionaire briefly in 2022
→Transitioned from co-CEO model to sole CEO in 2024