Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America
Hey HN, Pablo and Oriol here, founders of Belvo ( https://belvo.co/ ), a financial data API platform for Latin America. Think Plaid for Latam. We were previously building a payments startup (something like Venmo) in Europe and when expanding to Latam realised how hard it is to connect to legacy infrastructure, whether it is to access data, validate bank accounts or process payments. We’ve also been working in fintech in Europe for the past few years (at companies like Revolut) and one of us comes from a traditional financial services background. We’ve seen the impact open banking technology, which has become common in Europe, has had on providing end-users with more transparent and fair offerings and on lowering barriers for fintech developers to get started and launch innovative new products. But this technology hasn't made it into Latam yet, so we saw a big opportun
Why it failed
Hey HN, Pablo and Oriol here, founders of Belvo ( https://belvo.co/ ), a financial data API platform for Latin America. Think Plaid for Latam. We were previously building a payments startup (something like Venmo) in Europe and when expanding to Latam realised how h
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- viguerapablo
- Ended
- 2020
- Source
- hackernews