venezuelan-founder
(4)
Jesus Castillo Is Turning Venezuela's Money Workarounds Into a Fintech Playbook
The Venezuelan founder behind Kontigo learned finance from the neighborhood san, built through microlending and AI, and now wants a stablecoin wallet simple enough for his grandmother.
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.
He Spent a Decade Installing Turbines. Then He Tried to Make Venezuelan Commerce Click.
Alejandro Flores-Hernández took a field engineer’s appetite for systems into Maracaibo’s messy mix of payments, delivery and online shopping. QUIK is his attempt to make the whole machine run from one tap.
Daniela Sichel Rebuilt Her Career Twice - Then Turned Culture Into the Product
A Venezuelan psychologist rebuilt her practice across three cities, discovered that language was only half the problem, and designed Opción YO around the harder thing to copy: cultural understanding.