Kontigo

USDC-Smart Neobank for Latinos.

Y CombinatorSummer 2024ActiveFintechBanking and Exchange

What they do

Problem

Latinos in the U.S. and Latin America face expensive, fragmented cross-border money transfers and unstable local currencies that make it hard to send, hold, and use money.

Solution

Kontigo offers a USDC-based smart neobank with onramps and peer-to-peer payments to move and store value cheaply across Latin America.

Who it's for

Latino consumers in the U.S. and Latin America who need to send, receive, and hold money across borders.

Founders

jesus alberto Castillo ferrer

CEO & Co-founder

I'm a Venezuelan founder obsessed with closing the financial inclusion gap for 1.7 billion humans. - Previously built the largest micro-lending platform in Venezuela, reaching over 500k SMBs in low-income communities with no financial history, implementing Muhammad Yunus methodology powered by ML. - Co-founded the first LLM marketplace in LatAm using micro-payments instead of subscriptions. - Founder at Bicuye, the most exotic Agave-Based Liquour with an Ultra-Premium membership club.

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Gino Guatavita

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Kontigo. Tackling one of the biggest challenges in the region, access to credit and the financial system. Currently 500M+ people on Latam are under-banked, we are solving this with alternative data, AI and Web3.

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