Emburse has signed a multi-year partnership with TGR Haas F1 Team, becoming the Formula 1 team's official travel and expense solution partner.
Under the deal, Emburse will provide travel, expense, spend management and accounts payable tools across the team's international operations. Its branding will appear on the VF-26 car, replica cars, support vehicles, team equipment, garage areas, team communications and digital channels.
TGR Haas F1 Team operates across race events, logistics, travel planning, engineering, supplier relationships and cross-border business activity. The team is headquartered in Kannapolis, United States, and also has operations in Banbury and Maranello.
The partnership brings together a finance software provider and a racing team whose staff and suppliers move constantly between countries during the Formula 1 season. For Haas, that creates significant administrative demands around travel, expenses and payments as it competes at more than 20 venues each year.
The collaboration will also include digital content and executive engagement focused on the operational demands of running a global organisation. The companies plan to explore how modern finance systems, artificial intelligence and operational technology can improve visibility and coordination.
The arrangement reflects a wider push by business software groups to align with elite sport to showcase their products in complex, fast-moving environments. Formula 1 teams in particular have become attractive partners for technology, cloud, data and finance providers because of the sport's heavy reliance on logistics, engineering and international supplier networks.
Emburse serves more than 20,000 organisations across 200 countries and territories. Its customer base includes large enterprises, smaller businesses, public sector bodies and non-profits.
Marne Martin, Chief Executive Officer of Emburse, linked the agreement to the pressures facing finance departments in global organisations. "Formula 1 is one of the most operationally demanding environments in the world, requiring teams to make fast, informed decisions across people, travel, suppliers, and spend on a global scale," Martin said.
She added: "TGR Haas F1 Team represents exactly the kind of organization that is pushing the limits of efficiency and performance. As Emburse leads the shift from automation to agentic AI, this partnership demonstrates what's possible when finance teams are equipped with intelligent systems that don't just process transactions, but actively help organizations operate with greater speed, visibility, and control. Through Emburse AI and our Expense Intelligence vision, we're helping modern organizations transform travel, expense, and spend management into a strategic advantage."
Team operations
For Haas, the agreement comes as the team continues to position itself as a lean competitor on the Formula 1 grid. It has built its identity around operating with a smaller structure than many of its rivals while relying on technical partnerships and careful planning.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal of TGR Haas F1 Team, said the team's operating model made the partnership especially relevant. "I'm very happy to welcome Emburse to TGR Haas F1 Team as our 'Official Travel & Expense Solution Partner'," Komatsu said.
He added: "We're the smallest team on the Formula 1 grid, yet our efficiency and planning have enabled us to compete consistently at a high level. Emburse's expertise in travel and expense management makes them a natural fit for our organization as we continue to strengthen and evolve the team both on and off the track."
Alan Chan, Chief Financial Officer of TGR Haas F1 Team, outlined the financial case for the partnership in operational terms. He described the challenge of supporting a team with staff, suppliers and technical partners spread across multiple countries and continents.
"We race in over 20 locations each year, our team is based in three countries across two continents, and our supply base and technical partners are spread across the world, too," Chan said.
He added: "This inherently increases the complexity of how we operate as a finance team. In finance, our core values are precision, pace, collaboration and ownership. It's tremendously exciting to be partnering with Emburse and using their innovative technology across expense management and accounts payable, as it will enable us to significantly scale our capabilities while remaining efficient, streamlined, and delivering a significant ROI to our team."
Finance focus
The tie-up also gives Emburse a high-profile example for its broader strategy around what it calls Expense Intelligence, a model that combines travel booking, reimbursements, accounts payable and payments with artificial intelligence tools. The company says finance teams are under pressure to improve oversight of spending while helping organisations move faster.
That pitch is aimed at businesses with dispersed workforces, international travel demands and more complex procurement structures. In that sense, a Formula 1 team offers a visible test case for the kinds of operational conditions finance software providers increasingly want to address.
TGR Haas F1 Team has been on the Formula 1 grid for a decade and has recorded more than 200 grand prix starts. It was founded by Gene Haas, whose wider motorsport interests include NASCAR team ownership in the United States.
The agreement gives Emburse official partner status across the team's travel and expense functions, bringing a back-office discipline into one of sport's most visible global series.