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Aron Schwarzkopf Is Building the Rails Nobody Sees
The Kushki co-founder has spent his career making money move more easily. His second act began with a return to Latin America - and a wager that the region's invisible financial plumbing could become its most consequential technology.
Carolina Mondragón Romero Learned to Make Invisible Payment Systems Legible
A graphic designer entered the machinery room of Latin American finance. More than a decade later, she is still translating switches, security and interoperability into decisions people can understand.
Kevin Charles Built a Wallet for the Distance Between Home and Home
A Venezuelan migrant turned an expensive ritual - sending help home - into a decade-long experiment in practical digital money. Coco Wallet is the latest chapter, but the story began with two brothers, a bolívar and an open-source exchange.
Pablo Orlando Keeps Building Bridges for Money
From a borrowed San Francisco apartment to the plumbing of Latin American payments, Pablo Orlando has spent his career connecting people, currencies and ideas that were waiting to meet.
Julián Colombo
Julián Colombo is the founder and CEO of N5 Now, a multinational technology company that builds AI-driven software for banks, insurers and financial firms. After 20 years inside Banco Santander - ending as Global Managing Director of CRM and Business Intelligence in Madrid - he left in 2017 to start N5 with a USD 100 idea. Today N5 works across 18 countries with clients including Santander, Mastercard and Itaú, and in February 2025 raised a USD 20 million Series A to accelerate its banking AI products. An economist and journalist by training, and a former member of Argentina's parliament, Colombo is a frequent voice on how AI will reshape finance over the next decade.
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.