# Emburse

> Emburse provides cloud software for business travel, employee expenses, accounts payable, payments and spend analytics. Its portfolio includes Emburse Spend, Professional and Enterprise, serving businesses, public agencies and nonprofits with configurable controls and accounting integrations.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Dallas, United States
- **Founders:** Peter Lai (Founder and CEO of the original Emburse card startup), Roger Gu (Founder of the original Emburse startup, as listed by Y Combinator)
- **Products:** Emburse Spend, Emburse Professional, Emburse Enterprise, Emburse Travel, Emburse AP
- **Notable:** Elsevier’s published customer case reports a 75% reduction in expense categories., Garmin’s published customer case reports eight AP hours saved per week., Emburse announced Leader placement in three 2026 IDC MarketScape reports covering AI-enabled AP and embedded payments.

## Products & services

- **Emburse Spend** — Expense management for growing teams, with receipt matching, approvals, corporate card feeds and accounting integrations.
- **Emburse Professional** — Formerly Certify; travel, expense and invoice management with configurable approval routing and ERP connections.
- **Emburse Enterprise** — Formerly Chrome River; configurable expense and invoice workflows for complex organizations.
- **Emburse Travel** — Travel booking, re-shopping, benchmarking, auditing and sourcing tools; includes technology acquired with TRIPBAM.
- **Emburse AP** — Invoice processing, purchase-order matching, approvals, vendor enablement and payments for Professional and Spend; announced September 16, available September 30, 2026.
- **Emburse Pay** — Payment execution for vendor payments and employee reimbursements using licensed financial-services partners.
- **Emburse Cards** — Physical and virtual corporate cards with spending controls; card issuance is provided by banking partners.
- **Implementation and managed services** — Setup, training, administration and reporting support alongside software subscriptions.

## Achievements

- Elsevier’s published customer case reports a 75% reduction in expense categories.
- Garmin’s published customer case reports eight AP hours saved per week.
- Emburse announced Leader placement in three 2026 IDC MarketScape reports covering AI-enabled AP and embedded payments.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Announced Direct Travel partnership and expansion of its travel partner ecosystem.
- **2026-09** — Announced Spend expansion into Australia, with availability beginning September 15.
- **2026-09** — Announced Emburse AP, available September 30 for Professional and Spend.
- **2026-10** — Announced Leader placement in three IDC MarketScape assessments for AP automation and embedded payments.

## Links

- Website: https://www.emburse.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emburse/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/emburse
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXAK_opRNScOFADAhgPHcCA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emburse/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emburse/

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Last updated: 2026-10-16