Tech Edge hosted a fireside chat on at Money20/20 USA 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Claurelle Rakipovic, Chief Executive Officer at Pipe. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-at-Large Jarrett Banks and they discussed how the company is leveraging AI-powered credit underwriting, fraud detection and embedded financing to expand small-business access to capital, accelerate international growth, and improve operational efficiency while maintaining human oversight and regulatory compliance.
About Claurelle Rakipovic
Claurelle is CEO of Pipe, an embedded finance company that has funded $0.5B over two years to small businesses across five countries, through the platforms they run on, including Uber Restaurants. She has built businesses across B2B payments, lending, cross-border, and wealthtech, including as a front-to-bank business GM and Group Product leader at Amazon, where she grew and scaled two multi-billion dollar businesses in six countries, and as VP of Product at Capital Group, where she built new investment funds for the world’s 10th largest asset manager. Earlier, she developed products at BlackBerry.
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About Pipe
Pipe makes customer-friendly capital and smart financial tools accessible to growing businesses inside the software they use every day. Pipe’s embedded solutions are built to scale and give business builders across industries the power to grow on their own terms. To learn more, visit www.pipe.com, or follow us on X @pipe.
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