# Nicolás Jaramillo

> Nicolás Jaramillo is a Chilean engineer turned serial fintech founder who wants to be the BlackRock of web3. After helping build MACH, Chile's first widely adopted digital bank, and scaling the cross-border payments company Global66 across Latin America, he co-founded Arch in 2020 to make crypto investing as boring and accessible as an index fund. Arch packages the chaos of DeFi into tokenized, risk-rated portfolios, raised $5M in seed funding from Digital Currency Group and Upload Ventures, and aims to bring traditional-market discipline to the decentralized economy.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Arch
- **Organizations:** Arch (arch.finance), Global66, MACH (Banco Bci), Política Stereo, CreceChile
- **Nationality:** Chilean
- **Education:** Ingeniero Civil Industrial (Industrial Engineering), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, MBA, IESE Business School, Diplomado in Leadership and Competitiveness, Georgetown University
- **Known for:** Co-created MACH, one of Chile's first mass-adopted digital banking products, reaching 1M+ users in its first year., Scaled Global66's MAUs, transactions and USD volume roughly 10x in a single year as CEO., Co-founded Arch and raised $5M in seed funding from top crypto and fintech investors.

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Helped create MACH, the Bci-owned digital account that became one of Chile's first widely adopted digital banking products, surpassing 1 million users in its first year. Met future Arch co-founders Christopher Storaker and Diego Larraín.
- **2018** — Became CEO of Global66, a cross-border payments and remittance fintech operating across seven Latin American countries; grew monthly active users, transactions and USD volume roughly 10x in one year.
- **2020** — Co-founded Arch, pivoting from an earlier credit-focused idea (Smash) toward crypto portfolio management after user research revealed gaps in crypto investing.
- **2022** — Arch raised a $5M seed round (July 2022) from Digital Currency Group, Upload Ventures, Soma Capital, Genesis Block Ventures, Techstars, Devlabs and Ripio Ventures; launched its platform and crypto index products in September.
- **2023** — Spoke at Miami NFT Week; advocated publicly for regulatory clarity in crypto and for ETF-style, risk-rated crypto products.

## Achievements

- Co-created MACH, one of Chile's first mass-adopted digital banking products, reaching 1M+ users in its first year.
- Scaled Global66's MAUs, transactions and USD volume roughly 10x in a single year as CEO.
- Co-founded Arch and raised $5M in seed funding from top crypto and fintech investors.
- Built and shipped a family of 16 tokenized crypto indices, including Arch Ethereum Web3 and Arch Blockchains.
- Grew Arch to thousands of clients across the US and Latin America.

## Latest updates

- **2023-03** — Featured as a speaker at Miami NFT Week 2023, described as Co-Founder of Arch leading a distributed team across the US and Latin America.
- **2023-08** — Gave an interview with Chócale arguing for greater crypto regulatory clarity and against treating cryptocurrencies as securities.

## Links

- Website: https://arch.finance
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/najarami
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Arch_Finance_ES
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archfinance_es

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Last updated: 2026-06-21