The Claude Partner Network launches as Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, and doubles down on the commercial relationships that matter most.

There is a particular kind of defiance in the timing. On the same week that Anthropic was seeking an emergency stay from a US appeals court over the Pentagon’s decision to label it a national security risk, the company quietly announced something far more commercially significant: a $100 million commitment to a new partner programme designed to make Claude the default AI platform for the world’s largest enterprises.

The Claude Partner Network, launched on 12 March 2026, is a formalisation of the web of consulting and professional services relationships Anthropic has been quietly assembling over the past year. Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant, and Infosys are among the anchor partners.

The network offers training, dedicated technical support, joint go-to-market investment, and a new technical certification, all free to join for any organisation bringing Claude to market.

The $100 million investment is for 2026, with Anthropic signalling it expects to spend more in subsequent years. A significant portion flows directly to partners as support for training, sales enablement, and co-marketing. The company is also scaling its partner-facing headcount fivefold, adding dedicated Applied AI engineers for live customer deals, technical architects for complex deployments, and localised go-to-market support across international markets.

“Anthropic is the most committed AI company in the world to the partner ecosystem, and we’re putting $100 million behind that this year to prove it. Our partners are instrumental in getting enterprises from proof of concept to production with Claude, and we’re making sure they have everything they need to do it.”

So said Steve Corfield, Anthropic’s head of global business development and partnerships, in the launch announcement. Corfield, who joined Anthropic from Salesforce where he was executive vice president for global alliances, has spent the past year building an enterprise channel from near-scratch, and the scale of some of the commitments now attached to it is striking.

Accenture, which formalised a dedicated Anthropic Business Group in December 2025, is training 30,000 of its professionals on Claude. Cognizant has opened Claude access across its entire global workforce of roughly 350,000 associates and is embedding it into client modernisation engagements.

Infosys integrated Claude and Claude Code into its agentic AI platform in February. Deloitte joined the network as an enterprise AI deployment partner. Together, these firms represent much of the global consulting infrastructure through which large organisations adopt new technology platforms, a channel that OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft have each spent years cultivating.

Anthropic’s pitch is that it is catching up fast, and investing to catch up faster. The company claims its enterprise market share grew from 24% to 40% between the formation of its Accenture partnership and earlier this year, though this figure appears in Anthropic’s own communications and has not been independently verified.

Partners joining the network now gain access to a Partner Portal with Anthropic Academy training materials and internal sales playbooks, and can be listed in a publicly searchable Services Partner Directory for enterprise buyers.

A first technical certification, Claude Certified Architect, Foundations, is available immediately for solution architects building production applications with Claude. Additional certifications for sellers, architects, and developers are planned for later in 2026.

Anthropic has also released a Code Modernisation starter kit targeting what it describes as one of the highest-demand enterprise workloads: migrating legacy codebases and addressing accumulated technical debt. It is a deliberate focus.

Claude Code, Anthropic’s agentic coding product, has become the fastest-growing part of the company’s commercial portfolio, and the starter kit gives partners a structured entry point for exactly the type of engagements that tend to grow into larger deployments.

The backdrop to all of this is the Pentagon dispute, an extraordinary set of circumstances that has seen Anthropic become, as of early March 2026, the first American company ever to be designated a national security supply-chain risk, a label historically reserved for foreign adversaries.

The designation followed the collapse of negotiations over whether the US military could use Claude for fully autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance, two uses Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei has said he cannot in good conscience permit.

Anthropic has filed two lawsuits challenging the designation and sought an emergency stay from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing the action is ‘unprecedented and unlawful’ and risks hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in lost revenue.

Corfield acknowledged the dispute directly to CRN, noting that the supply-chain risk designation’s narrow scope means the vast majority of Anthropic’s commercial customers, including those working with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft, remain unaffected.

All three cloud providers have confirmed they can continue offering Claude through their platforms for non-defence work. ‘For us, outside of the DoD stuff, it’s very much business as usual,’ Corfield said.

That framing matters, because the Claude Partner Network is precisely about building the non-government commercial relationships that constitute Anthropic’s long-term moat. Claude is currently the only frontier AI model available across all three major cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft, a distribution advantage that rivals have not yet matched.

The partner programme is an attempt to translate that infrastructure position into embedded enterprise deployments: the kind that are expensive to move, produce recurring revenue, and make the underlying AI platform structurally difficult to displace.

Whether the $100 million is enough to close the gap with competitors who have years of channel-building behind them is an open question. But the timing, launched into the teeth of a federal legal battle, on the same day Anthropic’s Pentagon litigation was generating global headlines, suggests a company that is betting the commercial story is bigger than the political one.

from the ranch-dressing-ass-immigration-policy dept

Roughly a year ago — as Trump was trying to turn anti-genocide protests into deportable antisemitism — his administration made it clear it was only willing to support white people with antisemitic views. The administration threw some anti-Israel filters into the mix for DHS vetting of incoming migrants, blending them with the anti-Trump filters that equated opposing Trump and his open bigotry with hating America.

But the administration gave some antisemites a free pass… if they were white enough.

One of the white Afrikaners brought into the US as refugees by the Trump administration this week has a history of antisemitic social media posts, despite the White House using alleged antisemitism as a rationale for deporting pro-Palestinian protesters.

Charl Kleinhaus posted on X in 2023 that “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.” In another post last fall, he shared a rightwing, nationalist YouTube video that was later removed, titled: “‘We’ll shoot ILLEGAL Immigrants!’ – Poland’s Illegal Islamic immigrant solution,” with clapping emojis.

A number of Kleinhaus’s posts also promote the conspiracy theory that white people in South Africa are being particularly persecuted.

Advertisement

Trump apparently believes white South Africans are so extremely persecuted (after decades of subjugating Black South Africans), they deserve to avail themselves of everything offered by the Land of the Free. Trump wants incoming whites so badly he’s willing to rewrite the rules to flood the zone with new bigots.

The U.S. aims to process 4,500 refugee applications from white South Africans per month, far above President Donald Trump’s stated refugee program cap, and is installing trailers on embassy property in Pretoria to support the effort, a U.S. contracting document said.

The new target, contained in a previously unreported document from the U.S. State Department dated January 27, signals a push to ramp up admissions from South Africa, while refugee applications from other areas have been severely curtailed.

Notably, this isn’t a free pass for any South African. The document apparently extends this to whites only, which is a hell of a thing to do in this day and age. I have to imagine even the most racist of Afrikaners might balk a bit at boarding a plane where non-whites are being ejected over whatever country the plane flies over on its way to Land of Opportunity.

No one ever said this administration is clever. But it’s not accurate to call it stupid. It’s something else entirely: a collection of shitbirds who are so contemptuous of everyone else in the nation that it will stroke itself off publicly and shrug off complaints with non-sequiturs liberally peppered with phrases like “leftist media” or “activist judges.”

This administration will not only piss down your leg and tell you it’s raining, but swing by later to bitch about people “illegally” benefiting from the uninvited precipitation. It’s shit stacked on shit stacked on shit topped off by wedding cake figurines standing on the necks of fallen lawn jockeys.

If you want this to be your nation, please get the fuck out. Get your Fourth Reich on elsewhere, you absolute mooks. And I dare you explain how THIS isn’t pure racism, especially when you’ve gone all in on the “get the foreigners out” purge this government has been engaged in since Trump returned to the Oval Office.

Filed Under: bigotry, immigration, mass deportation, racism, south africa, trump administration, white nationalism

It’s been a whirlwind for NanoClaw creator Gavriel Cohen. 

About six weeks ago, he introduced NanoClaw on Hacker News as a tiny, open source, secure alternative to the AI agent-building sensation OpenClaw, after he built it in a weekend coding binge. That post went viral.  

“I sat down on the couch in my sweatpants,” Cohen told TechCrunch, “and just basically melted into [it] the whole weekend, probably almost 48 hours straight.”  

About three weeks ago, an X post praising NanoClaw from famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy went viral.  

About a week ago, Cohen closed down his AI marketing startup to focus full-time on NanoClaw and launch a company around it called NanoCo. The attention from Hacker News and Karpathy had translated into 22,000 stars on GitHub, 4,600 forks (people building new versions off the project), and over 50 contributors. He’s already added hundreds of updates to his project with hundreds more in the queue. 

Now, on Friday, Cohen announced a deal with Docker — the company that essentially invented the container technology NanoClaw is built on, and counts millions of developers and nearly 80,000 enterprise customers — to integrate Docker Sandboxes into NanoClaw. 

Scary security of OpenClaw 

It all started when Cohen launched an AI marketing startup with his brother, Lazer Cohen, a few months ago. The startup offered marketing services like market research, go-to-market analysis, and blog posts through a small team of people using AI agents.  

The agency started booking customers, and was on track to hit $1 million in annual recurring revenue, the brothers told TechCrunch. 

“It was going really well, great traction. I’m a huge believer in that business model of AI-native service companies that have margins and operate like a software company but are actually providing services,” said Cohen, a computer programmer who previously worked for website hosting company Wix.

He had built the agents the startup was using, largely using Claude Code, each designed to do specific tasks. But there was “a piece” missing, he said. The agent could do work when prompted, but the humans couldn’t pre-schedule work, or connect agents to team communication tools like WhatsApp and assign tasks that way. (WhatsApp is to most of the world what Slack is to corporate America.) 

Cohen heard about OpenClaw, the popular AI agent tool whose creator now works for OpenAI. Cohen used it to build out those final interfaces, and loved it. 

“There was this big aha moment of: This is the piece that connects all of these separate workflows that I’ve been building,” he said and immediately decided, “I want more of them: on R& D, on product, on client management,” one for every task the startup had to handle. 

But then OpenClaw scared the bejesus out of him. 

In researching a hiccup with performance, he stumbled across a file where the OpenClaw agent had downloaded all of his WhatsApp messages and stored them in plain, unencrypted text on his computer. Not just the work-related messages it was given explicit access to, but all of them, his personal messages too.  

OpenClaw has been widely panned as a “security nightmare” because of the way it accesses memory and account permissions. It is difficult to limit its access to data on a machine once it has been installed.  

That issue will likely improve over time, given the project’s popularity, but Cohen had another concern: the sheer size of OpenClaw. As he researched security options for it, he saw all the packages that had been bundled into it. It included an “obscure” open source project he himself had written a few months earlier for editing PDFs using a Google image editing model. He had no idea it was there — he wasn’t even actively maintaining that project.  

He realized there was no way for him to validate all OpenClaw’s code and its dependencies, which, by some estimates, sprawled across 800,000 lines of code. 

So he built his own in just 500 lines of code, intended to be used for his company, and shared it. He based it on Apple’s new container tech, which creates isolated environments that prevent software from accessing any data on a machine beyond what it is explicitly authorized to use.

Going viral

At 4 a.m., a couple of weeks after sharing it on Hacker News, his phone started ringing non-stop. A friend had seen Karpathy’s post and was urging Cohen to wake up and start tweeting, which he did, setting off a public discussion with the well-known AI researcher.  

Attention to NanoClaw followed like a landslide. More tweets, YouTube reviews from programmers, and news stories. A domain squatter even snagged a NanoClaw website URL. The correct one is nanoclaw.dev. 

Then Oleg Šelajev, a developer who works for Docker reached out. Šelajev saw the buzz and modified NanoClaw to replace Apple’s container technology with Docker’s competing alternative, Sandboxes.

Cohen had no hesitation about pushing out support for Sandboxes as part of the main NanoClaw project. “This is no longer my own personal agent that I’m running on my Mac Mini,” he recalled thinking. “This now has a community around it. There are thousands of people using it. Yeah, I said, I’m going to move over to the standard.” 

For all the changes these weeks have brought Cohen and his brother Lazer, now CEO and president of NanoCo, respectively, one area still needs to be figured out: how NanoCo will make money. 

NanoClaw is free and open source and, as these things go, the Cohens vow it always will be. They know they would be strung up as villains if they ever betrayed the open source community by changing that. Currently the Cohens are living on a friends-and-family fundraising round, they said.  

While they are cautious about announcing their commercial plans — in large part because they haven’t had a chance to fully formulate them — VCs are already calling, they say. 

The game plan is to build a fully supported commercial product with services including so-called forward-deployed engineers — specialists embedded directly with client companies to help them build and manage their systems. This will likely focus on assisting companies in building and maintaining secure agents. That is, however, a crowded field growing more crowded by the hour. 

But given the giant community of developers that NanoClaw just unlocked with Docker, we’re sure to hear more about this soon.

Pictured above from left to right, Lazer and Gavriel Cohen.

Contrary to popular belief, The Madison is not another Yellowstone spinoff. The neo-Western drama, which stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell as Clyburn family matriarch Stacy and patriarch Preston, was created by Taylor Sheridan and is set predominantly in Montana, but that’s where the similarities end.

You can watch The Madison season 1 online from anywhere with a VPN.

Amazon is the price of its ad-free Prime Video subscription and locking 4K UHD streaming behind this new tier. Starting April 10 for US customers, a rebranded Prime Video Ultra subscription will cost $5 per month, up from $3 per month.

For that extra $2, you get a download capacity increase from 25 to 100, and you can now run five streams concurrently instead of three. Whether those “Ultra” upgrades are worth the $24 annual hike will probably depend on how many boxsets you like to plough through on a long flight, or how many devices are using your Prime Video account.

The changes are most galling for Prime members who automatically qualify for Prime Video with ads through their membership, as Amazon has decided to remove 4K streaming from the standard tier. That means that, despite already paying $15 per month or $139 per year for Amazon Prime, you’ll be stuck with 1080p shows and movies unless you sign up to Prime Video Ultra.

Amazon has thrown in Dolby Vision support for the first time, as well as upping the concurrent stream and download count on its free tier as well, but you’re losing the privilege of UHD content that has been available to all Prime Video members for years. Dolby Atmos remains exclusive to the $5 tier too.

Amazon is the latest streamer to put its prices up, following similar recent hikes to , and . If you don’t want to give the company any more of your hard-earned, you have just under a month to binge your way through the second season of  in all of its irradiated UHD glory.

Two years after a brutal restructuring gutted Motional’s workforce and halted its commercial operations, the Hyundai-backed AV company is back on the Strip, still with a safety operator for now, but promising to remove one by the end of 2026.

Uber and Motional have relaunched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas, making all-electric Motional IONIQ 5 vehicles available to riders across key locations on and around the Strip from 13 March 2026.

The service marks a significant milestone for Motional, which two years ago paused its commercial operations entirely, cut roughly 40% of its workforce, and was left fighting for its survival after co-founder Aptiv pulled its funding.

The relaunch is not yet fully driverless. Initially, Motional’s IONIQ 5 robotaxis will carry a human vehicle operator monitoring the road from the driver’s seat.

The company says it expects to remove the safety operator and begin a fully driverless service by the end of 2026, delivering on the target it set during its 2024 restructuring.

How the service works

Riders who request an UberX, Uber Electric, Uber Comfort, or Uber Comfort Electric may be matched with a Motional IONIQ 5 at no additional cost. When matched, a notification appears in the app giving riders the option to accept the autonomous vehicle or switch to a conventional ride.

Users who want to maximise their chances of getting an AV can opt in via the Ride Preferences section in their Uber app settings.

Once a robotaxi arrives, the vehicle can be unlocked and the trip started entirely through the Uber app.

Inside, audio cues prompt riders to close doors and fasten seatbelts. If support is needed at any point, a human assistance team is reachable through the Uber app.

At launch, the service covers designated rideshare zones along Las Vegas Boulevard at Resorts World Las Vegas and Encore at the Wynn, plus Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, curbside locations in Downtown Las Vegas, and the Town Square shopping district near the airport.

Both companies say they plan to expand the operating area but did not give specifics.

The vehicle: SAE Level 4, FMVSS-certified

The IONIQ 5 robotaxi was co-developed by Motional and Hyundai Motor Group and is custom-built for ride-hail operations. According to Uber, it is one of the first SAE Level 4-capable autonomous vehicles to be certified under US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), the federal regulatory framework for motor vehicle equipment.

SAE Level 4 means the vehicle can handle all driving functions within a defined operational design domain without human intervention, though it does not require the capability to operate in all conditions everywhere.

“This milestone reflects our shared commitment to introduce autonomous vehicles in a way that prioritizes safety, increases reliability, and expands access to more ride options for our customers,” said Sarfraz Maredia, President of Autonomous Mobility & Delivery, Uber

Motional’s road back: from near-collapse to relaunch

The relaunch is the culmination of a turbulent two-year recovery. Motional was founded in 2020 as a $4 billion equal joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and automotive technology company Aptiv.

It ran pilot rides in Las Vegas via Uber and Lyft and deliveries in Los Angeles via Uber Eats, all with a human safety operator present, and accumulated more than 130,000 autonomous rides through those programmes.

The company’s troubles crystallised in early 2024, when Aptiv announced it would stop allocating capital to the venture, citing the high cost of commercialising robotaxi technology and an uncertain path to profitability. Aptiv had forecast a non-cash equity loss of around $340 million for 2024 alone.

With Aptiv’s withdrawal threatening to destabilise the entire company, Hyundai stepped in with a near-$1 billion commitment: $475 million invested directly into Motional and $448 million to buy out 11% of Aptiv’s common equity interest. The restructuring left Hyundai with approximately 85% of Motional’s common equity and Aptiv with 15%.

The funding came with painful conditions. Motional halted all commercial rides and deliveries, paused plans to launch its second-generation driverless service, and cut approximately 550 staff, around 40% of its total workforce, across teams in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, California, and Massachusetts. T

he company pivoted to focus exclusively on improving its underlying autonomous technology, including a shift toward a more neural network-driven approach to autonomy, before attempting any new commercial deployment.

Motional returned to fundraising in August 2025 with a $550 million Series B round led by Aptiv and joined by Hyundai and Nuance Investments, which boosted its valuation to $6.5 billion. That capital, combined with the technology rebuild, underpins today’s relaunch.

A busy week for Uber’s autonomous ambitions

The Las Vegas launch is not a standalone announcement. In the same week, Uber confirmed a deal with Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, to deploy Zoox’s purpose-built robotaxis on the Uber platform, initially in Las Vegas from summer 2026, followed by Los Angeles in mid-2027.

Uber and Wayve also announced a collaboration with Nissan on a robotaxi pilot in Tokyo, targeted for late 2026, which would be Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan.

Uber says it is currently working with more than 25 autonomous vehicle partners across its Mobility, Delivery, and Freight divisions. The company announced earlier in 2026 that it plans to invest more than $100 million in charging infrastructure for autonomous vehicles.

Its autonomous solutions division, launched in February 2026 under Maredia’s oversight, is focused on helping AV technology companies commercialise their deployments faster by providing demand generation, rider experience, customer support, and fleet management services.

For Motional, the Las Vegas service is both a proof point and a pressure test. The company’s technology, rebuilt and retrained in the background since 2024, now faces its first sustained real-world commercial deployment with paying riders. 

Right now, deleting a couple of public listings of your personal information is hardly enough to reduce your digital presence in any significant way. What’s more, your data circulates not only across people-search sites but also in marketing networks, analytics firms, recruitment databases, or risk-profiling systems, and many of these sources you’re incapable of reaching on your own.

That’s why it’s worth investing in a reliable data removal service with its automation, recurring requests, and the breadth of broker coverage.

Incogni and Onerep are two established providers in the data removal service field. To help you decide, we compare them below, clarifying where each company stands today.

Quick Comparison (2026)

Onerep vs Incogni: Service Snapshot & Core Positioning

Onerep vs Incogni: Pricing & Plans (March, 2026)

Incogni

Incogni starts at $7.99 per month when billed annually. If paid monthly, it’s from $15.98 per month. All its plans include automated removal across 420+ brokers and recurring processing by default. Higher tiers provide expanded support options or add prioritization.

Incogni is also bundled with other data protection ecosystems: with NordProtect or included in Surfshark One+ subscription. This allows users to expand their privacy toolkit and integrate data removal into a unified, broader suite.

Incogni doesn’t offer any free tiers or trials, but there’s a 30-day money-back guarantee. Family and enterprise options are available.

Onerep

Onerep’s cheapest plan is $8.33 per month if billed annually. Billed annually, the prices start at $14.95 per month. It offers a 5-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Family and enterprise plans are available.

Onerep is a standalone subscription, not available combined with larger privacy suites.

Broker Coverage

As such, the difference between Incogni and Onerep when it comes to coverage lies less in whether removals occur at all and more in how broadly data sources are covered.

Transparency, Verification & Public Trust

Incogni

Incogni provides a clear dashboard with request logs and their statuses that you can track, but don’t have to for the system to work efficiently. 

The company has also undergone a Deloitte Limited Assurance Assessment that evaluated and confirmed different aspects of Incogni’s removal processes.

Incogni has received Editors’ Choice recognition from both PCMag and PCWorld and multiple positive reviews from industry experts.

Along with its excellent Trustpilot rating, reviews praise the provider’s ability to actually reduce spam with minimal user involvement.

Onerep

Onerep provides a clear, visible listing tracking within its supported directories. It allows its users to see exactly which sources were identified and what was removed. 

However, the company hasn’t published any independent third-party verification comparable to Incogni’s limited assurance assessment.

What’s more, the privacy and security industry has also been influenced by information from Krebs on Security about Onerep’s CEO, who was reported to be creating public people-search sites. It has certainly shaped public discourse on transparency.

While Onerep’s Trustpilot rating is high, it isn’t based on many reviews.

Final Words: Choosing the Right Level of Protection in 2026

Incogni and Onerep were both designed to solve similar digital privacy problems. 

Onerep is more about removing personal data from publicly visible directory listings, which helps users reduce exposure in search results.

Incogni, on the other hand, is built for broader suppression. It engages both public directories and private data brokers. It also repeats requests on recurring cycles, addressing not only what’s on the surface but also in the behind-the-scenes databases that actually fuel marketing, profiling, and data trading.

As data circulation becomes more complex and concerning in 2026, broker coverage matters more than ever. If your goal is long-term, vast privacy control, Incogni currently offers a more comprehensive solution.

FAQ

The $32 billion US spend management platform acquires a licensed payments provider to launch corporate cards and finance tools in the UK and EU this summer.

The corporate spend management market just shifted its centre of gravity. On 13 March 2026, Ramp, the New York-based financial operations platform valued at $32 billion, announced the acquisition of Billhop, a Stockholm and London payments firm licensed to operate across the European Economic Area and the UK.

The deal gives Ramp the regulatory infrastructure it needs to onboard European and British businesses directly, something it plans to begin doing this summer.

The timing is not subtle. In January, Capital One announced a $5.15 billion deal to acquire Brex, Ramp’s long-time US rival and once the defining name in startup corporate cards.

The 💜 of EU tech

The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol’ founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!

That deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2026. Ramp’s move into Europe lands while Brex is navigating an acquisition by a traditional bank, and while the question of what happens to Brex’s product roadmap and founder-friendly positioning under Capital One remains unanswered.

The acquisition of Billhop is primarily a licensing and infrastructure play. Billhop, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Stockholm, is a payments infrastructure provider that enables businesses to pay invoices by credit card, even to suppliers that do not ordinarily accept card payments.

It holds a Swedish Payment Institution licence from Finansinspektionen, Sweden’s financial regulator, and is separately authorised and regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority.

Those licences give Ramp what it could not quickly build itself: the regulatory standing to process payments across EEA member states and the UK as two distinct jurisdictions.

As part of the acquisition, Ramp will open its first international offices in London and Stockholm. The company currently serves nearly half its customers with some form of international payment capability, it supports transactions in over 180 countries and offers local currency cards in Canada, Australia, Japan, Mexico, and Singapore, but all of those customers are US-headquartered businesses.

The Billhop acquisition makes it possible, for the first time, to sign up companies based in the UK and EU as primary customers.

“We’ve spent years building Ramp into something the most ambitious US companies rely on. This summer, for the first time, companies headquartered in the UK and EU will be able to use Ramp directly. In their first year, the median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16%. Europe is home to extraordinary companies. We can’t wait to get to work.”

That was Eric Glyman, Ramp’s co-founder and CEO, in the company’s announcement.

Niklas Bothén, CEO of Billhop,  who was appointed to the role in a planned leadership transition in late 2024, having joined the company as COO in 2020, framed the deal as a scale-up of Billhop’s core mission.

“Our mission at Billhop has always been to remove friction from B2B payments and make it easier for businesses to manage their spend. Joining Ramp allows us to realise that vision at a much larger scale.”

Ramp’s broader platform, which combines corporate cards, expense management, vendor payments, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping, processes over $100 billion in purchases annually and is used by more than 50,000 customers.

The company says its customers have collectively saved over $10 billion and 27.5 million hours since its founding in 2019. It raised a $312 million Series E round in November 2025, which brought its valuation to $32 billion.

The context for all of this is a market in transition. Brex, which was valued at $12.3 billion in 2022, agreed to sell to Capital One for $5.15 billion, less than half its peak valuation, in January 2026.

The markdown reflects a period in which Brex’s core customer base of venture-backed startups sharply reduced spending as funding dried up, while Ramp, with a broader customer mix and a stronger focus on cost savings and efficiency tools, continued to grow.

Ramp surpassed $1 billion in annualised recurring revenue in October 2025. Brex’s exit leaves Ramp as effectively the dominant independent spend management platform in the US market.

The European market Ramp is entering is materially different from the one it has built its US business on. Corporate card penetration in Europe is lower, B2B payment infrastructure is more fragmented across national markets, and the regulatory requirements for operating as a payment institution vary significantly by jurisdiction.

Billhop’s model, specifically designed to bridge the gap between card-paying buyers and non-card-accepting suppliers across European markets, addresses exactly the structural friction that has historically made it difficult for US-centric spend management platforms to gain traction in the region.

Financial terms of the Billhop acquisition were not disclosed. No acquisition price has been published by either party.