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Hapi
Hapi is a Peruvian-founded, YC-backed fintech that lets people across Latin America invest in U.S. stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies from their phones - with zero commissions, no minimums and an account you can open in about five minutes. Built to knock down the high fees and paperwork that historically kept Latin Americans out of the U.S. markets, Hapi has grown from 10,000 users in 2022 to a reported 500,000-plus clients across roughly 20 countries.
Ola Guild Games
Ola Guild Games (OLA GG) is the largest Web3 gaming community in the Spanish-speaking world, operating as a regional subDAO of Yield Guild Games. Founded by lifelong Hispanic gamers, it onboards players across Latin America and Spain into blockchain games through NFT scholarships, Web3 education, and a shared-rewards model that lets people play and earn without upfront cost. In 2022 it raised $8 million in seed funding from investors including Galaxy Interactive, BITKRAFT, and Arca.
Pana
Pana is a Miami-based, Y Combinator-backed neobank building a stablecoin-native dollar account for Latinos and immigrants in the United States and their families across Latin America. It powers a closed-loop remittance network - borderless USD balances that move money instantly between users with zero fees, backed by USDC and settling to more than 5,000 banks across 27 countries. Founded in 2021 by Piero Nunez del Risco and Luis Pena, Pana pairs a consumer app (US checking-style accounts opened with a passport, a Mastercard debit card, direct deposit, and free peer transfers) with an emerging embedded-finance layer that lets banks and platforms serve the US diaspora.
Nico del Pino
Nico del Pino is the co-founder and CEO of Ola Guild Games (OLA GG), the largest web3 gaming community in the Hispanic world. A subDAO of Yield Guild Games, OLA GG sets out to turn play into financial inclusion for the 500-million-plus Spanish-speaking market across Latin America and beyond. A crypto and fintech operator for more than a decade, del Pino co-founded Liquid Meta (the first publicly traded liquidity-mining company), ran fintech at Endeavor, and led sales at NASDAQ-listed dLocal before betting his career on the idea that owning your in-game economy could change a household's bottom line.
Preston Hopkin
Preston Hopkin is an enterprise sales leader at Adobe, currently serving as AVP of Enterprise Sales for Adobe's Content Supply Chain practice. Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, he has built his career bridging financial services and enterprise software — progressing from business banking at Wells Fargo to leading global sales teams across Latin America and Asia-Pacific at Workfront before its acquisition by Adobe. Today he drives client growth for Adobe's AI-powered content operations platform, helping large organizations orchestrate the end-to-end lifecycle of marketing content at scale.
Ilan Bajarlia
Ilan Bajarlia is the CEO and co-founder of nocnoc, a Montevideo-based cross-border e-commerce facilitator that connects more than 2,500 global brands and sellers from the U.S. and China with shoppers across Latin America's fragmented marketplaces. A former dLocal and AstroPay business developer, he built nocnoc from a $300,000 friends-and-family seed into a company that has raised roughly $22 million, led by PayPal Ventures, and operates the largest cross-border stores in the region across Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.
Calii
Calii is a full-stack grocery delivery app rebuilding Latin America's food supply chain from the producer to the doorstep. Founded in Monterrey, Mexico, the company sources directly from farmers and brands, runs its own micro-fulfillment centers, and ships orders in under two hours.
Félix
Félix (Félix Pago) is a Miami-based fintech that lets Latin Americans in the U.S. send money home through a WhatsApp chat. Under the hood, it routes transfers over stablecoin rails (USDC) and uses AI to handle compliance and customer service in Spanish. Founded in 2020 by Manuel Godoy and Bernardo García, the company has moved more than $1 billion across nine LatAm corridors and raised a $75M Series B led by QED Investors in April 2025.
David Arrambide
David Eduardo Arrambide Montemayor is the co-founder and CEO of Calii, a full-stack grocery delivery platform disrupting the $1 trillion Latin American grocery market. A Stanford-trained engineer and Y Combinator alum (W19), he co-founded Calii in 2019 alongside Maurizio Caló Caligaris to deliver ultra-fresh produce and 5,000+ products in under two hours via a network of micro-fulfillment centers in Mexico. By cutting out middlemen and automating the food supply chain end-to-end, Calii offers prices at or below Walmart while reducing food waste by up to 3x. The company raised a $22.5M Series A in January 2022, co-led by Dalus Capital and JAM Fund, with backing from Forerunner Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Y Combinator, and Base10 Partners, bringing total funding to nearly $35 million.
Simetrik
Simetrik is an AI-powered, no-code reconciliation platform that automates transaction matching, exception management, and compliance workflows for enterprises operating at high transaction volumes across 40+ countries.
Truora Inc.
Truora is a Latin America-focused identity and customer engagement platform that helps companies verify users, run background checks, and onboard customers - largely through WhatsApp. Founded in 2018 by Twilio and McKinsey alumni and backed by Y Combinator, Accel, and Propel, it powers KYC and fraud prevention for Rappi, Bancolombia, Mercado Libre, Didi, and hundreds of other LatAm businesses.
Rosalba Reynoso
Rosalba Reynoso is the co-founder and CEO of Blue Trail Software, a San Francisco-based benefit corporation delivering custom software, AI/ML, IoT, and QA solutions for enterprises and scale-ups across the Americas and Europe. Coming from a human resources background rather than a technical one, she built a nearshore Pan-American IT company with teams across Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, and Spain, serving Fortune 100 clients including Samsung, Cartier, Hewlett Packard, and Logitech. A proud Latina leading a women-founded and women-led firm, Reynoso champions diversity and inclusion, stakeholder empowerment, and social impact - from funding coding bootcamps for women in Mexico to creating the My Luna menopause-tracking app.
Dusko Kelez
Dusko Kelez is the Peruvian founder and CEO of Hapi App (YC W21), a San Francisco-based fintech that lets anyone in Latin America invest in U.S. stocks and crypto with no broker commissions and no minimums. After leading operations at Grin Scooters across seven countries and noticing that Latin Americans had no easy way to access global markets, he co-founded Hapi in 2020 with engineers Piero Sifuentes and Billy Caballero. Today the platform serves over 500,000 users in 20 countries, has raised $4.3M from Y Combinator and leading investors, and is celebrating milestones on the NASDAQ tower in Times Square.
Angela Strange
Angela Strange is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads investments in fintech infrastructure, insurance, and AI applications in financial services. A mechanical engineer by training and elite marathon runner by heart, she coined the widely-cited thesis 'Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company' - arguing that new financial infrastructure will enable any company to embed financial services the way AWS democratized software. She joined a16z in 2014 after stints at Google (where she launched Chrome for Android and iOS) and travel startup Ruba.com (acquired by Google). She has board seats at companies including Moov, Sardine, Jeeves, Valon, and hyperexponential, and is co-chair of C100, which connects Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley.
Pete Flint
Pete Flint is a British-born serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Trulia, the real estate search platform that sold to Zillow for $3.5 billion in 2015. Before that, he was part of the founding team at lastminute.com, which IPO'd in London and sold for $1.1 billion. He is now General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage VC firm built around the thesis that network effects drive 70% of all technology value creation. He was awarded an OBE in 2021 for services to entrepreneurship.