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Kontigo

Summer 2024Active

USDC-Smart Neobank for Latinos.

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Kontigo

Summer 2024Active

USDC-Smart Neobank for Latinos.

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We’re building Kontigo, a USDC Smart Neobank for Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America.

We launched our Peer-to-Peer onramp 20 days ago and we’ve already had $540k in deposits, 10k active users and a +300k waitlist.

The founding team has built and scaled fintechs in Latam, and it’s ex-Venmo, Nubank, Rappi, MercadoLibre, Ualá, Platzi, and Yuno.

We’re already backed by DST Global, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, Transpose + 10 YC alums.

Sending money to Latin America is just as painful as holding it due to the region's fragmentation into 33 countries with 39 different currencies.

On one hand, cross-border payments to Latam are absurdly expensive (up to 20% per transaction). Conversely, over the past decade, currency depreciation across the region has become unsustainable. (some countries surpassing the trillion percent ).

Kontigo solves this with a USDC global wallet & a BTC savings account.

Like Venmo, but on-USDC. Like Zelle, but for cross-border payments. No limits. Like Nubank & Revolut, but without inflationary currencies. Bitcoin-backed.

User wallets are connected to an AI-private banker on WhatsApp to execute international USDC transactions.

Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
Unknown
YC Directory Pagekontigo.lat
Founders
  • JF
    jesus alberto Castillo ferrer
    CEO & Co-founder
    X / TwitterLinkedIn
  • GG
    Gino Guatavita
    Founder
    X / TwitterLinkedIn

We’re building Kontigo, a USDC Smart Neobank for Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America.

We launched our Peer-to-Peer onramp 20 days ago and we’ve already had $540k in deposits, 10k active users and a +300k waitlist.

The founding team has built and scaled fintechs in Latam, and it’s ex-Venmo, Nubank, Rappi, MercadoLibre, Ualá, Platzi, and Yuno.

We’re already backed by DST Global, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, Transpose + 10 YC alums.

Sending money to Latin America is just as painful as holding it due to the region's fragmentation into 33 countries with 39 different currencies.

On one hand, cross-border payments to Latam are absurdly expensive (up to 20% per transaction). Conversely, over the past decade, currency depreciation across the region has become unsustainable. (some countries surpassing the trillion percent ).

Kontigo solves this with a USDC global wallet & a BTC savings account.

Like Venmo, but on-USDC. Like Zelle, but for cross-border payments. No limits. Like Nubank & Revolut, but without inflationary currencies. Bitcoin-backed.

User wallets are connected to an AI-private banker on WhatsApp to execute international USDC transactions.

Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
Unknown
YC Directory Pagekontigo.lat
Founders
  • JF
    jesus alberto Castillo ferrer
    CEO & Co-founder
    X / TwitterLinkedIn
  • GG
    Gino Guatavita
    Founder
    X / TwitterLinkedIn
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