Case Study: Startle achieves an empowered remote culture and streamlined expense management with Pleo

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Startle is a UK-based technology company that supplies background music and other in-store experiences to retail and hospitality. As a remote, lean business scaling in the UK and US, Startle needed a way to give employees controlled spending freedom without adding manual overhead — so early on they trialled and adopted Pleo’s expense cards and management platform.

Pleo provided company cards and an automated expense workflow that Startle rolled out from team leaders to everyone. The platform became part of Startle’s culture, cut out the CEO’s expense admin, improved accounts efficiency and let developers test card payments instantly (versus a three‑day wait with a bank), delivering faster processes and less manual work for the team.

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Adam Castleton

Startle