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Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

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<ul><li>In Latin America's volatile business environment—currency fluctuations, shifting trade tariffs, and unpredictable interest rate cycles— Kapital has adapted to monetize in any economic condition, generating revenue from deposits when rates are high, financing "buy now, pay later" through Kapital Flex when rates fall, and providing stablecoin options when local currencies destabilize.</li><li>Starting in Mexico, Kapital initially expanded to Colombia over Brazil, looking to expand into large markets first in LatAm and then globally that lack competition to servicing SMEs (less than 250 employees, ~50% of global employment), particularly where incumbent banks consider them too small for relationship banking and fintechs focus on consumer.</li><li>The lack of competition in these markets has given Kapital a head start to roll up the bank account (Mercury), corporate card (Brex), expense management (Ramp), AP/AR (Bill.com), and treasury (Meow) into an all-in-one, with line of sight into rolling up the entire SME backoffice including HR, payroll, and employee benefits.</li></ul>

In Latin America's volatile business environment—currency fluctuations, shifting trade tariffs, and unpredictable interest rate cycles— Kapital has adapted to monetize in any economic condition, generating revenue from deposits when rates are high, financing "buy now, pay later" through Kapital Flex when rates fall, and providing stablecoin options when local currencies destabilize.Starting in Mexico, Kapital initially expanded to Colombia over Brazil, looking to expand into large markets first in LatAm and then globally that lack competition to servicing SMEs (less than 250 employees, ~50% of global employment), particularly where incumbent banks consider them too small for relationship banking and fintechs focus on consumer.The lack of competition in these markets has given Kapital a head start to roll up the bank account (Mercury), corporate card (Brex), expense management (Ramp), AP/AR (Bill.com), and treasury (Meow) into an all-in-one, with line of sight into rolling up the entire SME backoffice including HR, payroll, and employee benefits.

Fernando Sandoval, co-founder Of Kapital, On Tropicalizing Brex For LatAm

<ul><li>Sacra estimates Airbase hit $70M in revenue in 2023, growing 27% year-over-year, with a current valuation of $641.5M.</li><li>The company&#39;s growth has been driven by strong product adoption among mid-market finance teams seeking comprehensive spend management solutions.</li><li>Airbase&#39;s customer base includes dozens of public companies and organizations with 1000+ employees.</li></ul>

Sacra estimates Airbase hit $70M in revenue in 2023, growing 27% year-over-year, with a current valuation of $641.5M.The company&#39;s growth has been driven by strong product adoption among mid-market finance teams seeking comprehensive spend management solutions.Airbase&#39;s customer base includes dozens of public companies and organizations with 1000+ employees.

<ul><li>Brex is directly integrated with Mastercard.</li><li>Going global shifts Brex’s competitive set to multinational banks like Citi and HSBC.</li><li>Our goal with having a global focus is to satisfy customer needs for one global limit for all of their employees around the world.</li></ul>

Brex is directly integrated with Mastercard.Going global shifts Brex’s competitive set to multinational banks like Citi and HSBC.Our goal with having a global focus is to satisfy customer needs for one global limit for all of their employees around the world.

Art Levy, Chief Business Officer At Brex, On The Strategy Of Brex Embedded

<ul><li>Business intelligence (BI) tools like Looker (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Tableau (NYSE: CRM) are where financial analysts create dashboards, formalize their reasoning, and establish a source of truth—but for deeper analysis, analysts revert to Excel.</li><li>Both finance analysts and financial analysis are becoming horizontal across the org, integrating data—not just from QuickBooks and Stripe—but through Salesforce, HubSpot, Amplitude, your production database, and more.</li><li>Modern FP&A tools Equals (Andreessen Horowitz, $22.6M raised), Sigma Computing (Sutter Hill, $652M raised), Runway (Initialized Capital, $33.5M raised) and Causal (Coatue, $26M raised) vertically integrate integrations & the data layer (where you connect live data), spreadsheets (where you analyze the data) and dashboards (where you display the data) into a collaborative finance platform.</li></ul>

Business intelligence (BI) tools like Looker (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Tableau (NYSE: CRM) are where financial analysts create dashboards, formalize their reasoning, and establish a source of truth—but for deeper analysis, analysts revert to Excel.Both finance analysts and financial analysis are becoming horizontal across the org, integrating data—not just from QuickBooks and Stripe—but through Salesforce, HubSpot, Amplitude, your production database, and more.Modern FP&A tools Equals (Andreessen Horowitz, $22.6M raised), Sigma Computing (Sutter Hill, $652M raised), Runway (Initialized Capital, $33.5M raised) and Causal (Coatue, $26M raised) vertically integrate integrations & the data layer (where you connect live data), spreadsheets (where you analyze the data) and dashboards (where you display the data) into a collaborative finance platform.

Bobby Pinero, CEO Of Equals, On Bringing Joy To Finance Teams

<ul><li>Our solution was to offer a crypto wallet paired with a card that allows companies to store funds in a stablecoin like USDC.</li><li>Kapital launched a product that lets SMEs deposit their funds into Kapital and get access to stablecoins alongside local currency.</li><li>Crypto comes into play for executing the cross-border payment to the vendor seamlessly.</li></ul>

Our solution was to offer a crypto wallet paired with a card that allows companies to store funds in a stablecoin like USDC.Kapital launched a product that lets SMEs deposit their funds into Kapital and get access to stablecoins alongside local currency.Crypto comes into play for executing the cross-border payment to the vendor seamlessly.

Fernando Sandoval, co-founder Of Kapital, On Stablecoins For cross-border Payments

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Fernando Sandoval, co-founder Of Kapital, On Tropicalizing Brex For LatAm

I'd like to begin by framing everything - what were the things that really gave you momentum last year? And which areas of the business did you...

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Primer: Airbase - 17 Nov 2024

Software for mid-market finance teams to manage procurement, expenses, and vendor payments

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Art Levy, Chief Business Officer At Brex, On The Strategy Of Brex Embedded

What is Brex Embedded, who are its customers, how do they (and their end customers use it), and why did you build it...

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Bobby Pinero, CEO Of Equals, On Bringing Joy To Finance Teams

So before you founded Equals, you spent 8 years as a finance leader at Intercom. Tell us about that experience and then what you learned that...

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Fernando Sandoval, co-founder Of Kapital, On Stablecoins For cross-border Payments

There's two basic types of stablecoin products in the Kapital context: the customer-facing stablecoins that SMEs want to hold their funds in, and...

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