One API. 100+ local payment methods. 15 currencies. Rebill is the plumbing that lets global companies collect money across LATAM without opening a single local entity.
Above: the Rebill wordmark. A five-letter promise to every developer who ever watched a Colombian card decline for no reason at all.
It is a Tuesday, and somewhere a checkout button is quietly saving a business. A student in Bogotá taps to pay for a coding bootcamp with a local card. A subscriber in São Paulo settles up with PIX. A shopper in Lima reaches for Yape; a buyer in Mexico City picks SPEI. Six countries, six habits, one invisible layer catching them all. None of these customers has heard the name Rebill. That is exactly how Rebill likes it.
Infrastructure has a funny relationship with fame. The better it works, the less you notice it. Rebill - founded in Buenos Aires in 2020 and now straddling a Miami business address - has spent its short life building the least glamorous, most necessary thing in modern commerce: a way to actually get paid. In Latin America, that turns out to be a much harder problem than building the product you are trying to sell.
Ask any founder who has tried to "expand into Latin America" what happened next. They will tell you about currencies that swing, regulators who differ by border, and a customer base that abandons checkout the instant it does not see its preferred way to pay. In the United States you can get away with cards. In LATAM, cards are just the beginning - there is PIX in Brazil, Boleto and cash vouchers, PSE and Nequi in Colombia, Yape in Peru, SPEI and bank transfers in Mexico, plus wallets like Mercado Pago and Ualá.
Each one is a separate integration, a separate contract, a separate headache. Most companies look at that thicket and either give up or spend a year hacking through it. Rebill's founders looked at it and saw a company.
Integrate in under an hour and accept payments like a local in Latin America's main markets.— Rebill's promise to developers
In 2018, Nahuel Candia was consulting for an insurance company in Argentina that could not cleanly collect recurring payments. It was the kind of dull, expensive problem that companies quietly bleed money on. Candia - a developer since the age of 14, who had built three companies before turning 30 - kept turning it over. By 2020 he had teamed up with Ariel Diaz Ailan, and the annoyance had a name: Rebill.
Candia's résumé reads like a builder who never sits still. Before Rebill he founded Shovel Apps and served as CTO of Ando.la, later acquired by Moova. He is MIT-recognized and, by his own account, stubbornly hands-on across product, engineering, and execution. That instinct shows up in the product: Rebill is unmistakably built by people who have felt the pain of a failing integration at 2 a.m.
Rebill is not a single button - it is a toolkit for anyone who needs money to move across a border and land in the right account. Here is what teams actually reach for:
Smart, shareable links that auto-detect a customer's country and currency, then show the right local methods.
A drop-in checkout that adapts to local payment methods - integrated in roughly five lines of code.
Flexible recurring billing with customizable cycles and automatic charging across LATAM currencies.
Country-configurable financing plans - a near-mandatory expectation across much of the region.
Automated recovery logic that reattempts failed charges intelligently, recovering up to 71%.
Collect from and pay out to customers, contractors, and partners with unified settlement.
Real-time payment-status alerts over WhatsApp, SMS, and email - where LATAM customers actually are.
Reconciliation and analytics that benchmark your performance against industry standards.
The point is not any single number - it is that no single method wins. A merchant who only accepts cards is turning away a third of the market before the conversation even starts. Rebill's job is to make sure the answer to "can I pay this way?" is always yes.
Coding since 14, three companies before 30, MIT-recognized. Founded Shovel Apps; was CTO of Ando.la (acquired by Moova). Stays deep in product and engineering.
Joined Candia in 2020 to turn a recurring-payments headache into a company. Helped steer Rebill through Start-Up Chile, where it was named fastest-growing.
In August 2022, Rebill announced roughly $3.6M - a $3M seed led by Tiger Global, on top of a $600K pre-seed. The cap table reads like a who's-who of people who understand infrastructure: the co-founder of Dropbox and the founder of Vercel among them.
Rebill's customers skew toward digital-first businesses scaling into the region - edtech bootcamps, healthtech platforms, SaaS tools, and marketplaces. When your growth depends on frictionless recurring revenue in six currencies, the payments layer stops being a detail.
Nahuel Candia hits a recurring-payments wall while consulting for an Argentine insurer. The problem sticks with him.
Candia and Ariel Diaz Ailan launch the company in Buenos Aires to unify LATAM payments behind one API.
Rebill goes through Start-Up Chile (named its fastest-growing company) and joins Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.
Seed round led by Tiger Global, with SV Angel, Soma Capital, and the founders of Dropbox and Vercel joining in.
Rebill expands its cross-border payment gateway, deepening reach across the region's local methods and currencies.
There is an old piece of wisdom about gold rushes: the people who reliably get rich are the ones selling shovels. Latin America's digital economy is one of the fastest-growing on earth, and everyone wants a piece. Rebill decided not to prospect - it decided to sell the tools. Payment infrastructure is unglamorous, capital-efficient, and sticky. Once a company's revenue flows through your rails, you become very hard to remove.
That is the quiet ambition here. Not to be a household name, but to be the layer no one has to think about - the reason a subscription renews cleanly across a border, in a currency you have never held, using a method you have never heard of.
Global payments infrastructure in LATAM and US - process payments, payouts, and financial operations without establishing local entities.— How Rebill describes itself
So return to that Tuesday. The student in Bogotá, the subscriber in São Paulo, the shopper in Lima, the buyer in Mexico City. A year ago, half of those checkouts might have failed - wrong currency, missing method, a card that declines for reasons no one can explain. Today they clear in a second, and the businesses on the other end never see the machinery. The button just works. That is the whole point of Rebill: it changed the scene by making itself disappear from it.
Profile compiled from public sources. Figures such as revenue and transaction-recovery rates are company-stated or third-party estimates and are approximate.