Pleo

Business spend management

Pleo handles business spending — company cards, expenses and the reconciliation work that follows — for more than 40,000 customers. Messy spend management is a shared problem rather than a finance-department one: the tedious parts fall on everyone who has to submit, chase or approve something, which is why the failure mode is non-compliance rather than complaint. The company's name means more than you would expect, which it treats as an operating standard rather than branding. It is a team of over 850 people from more than 100 nationalities, built over ten years.