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Rio

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LATAM’s largest stablecoin FX and liquidity provider

Summer 2022Founded 202210 peopleMexico City, CDMX, Mexico
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Rio is the premier stablecoin liquidity provider for the LATAM market. We enable access to stablecoins for financial innovators to scale their products.

Founders Β· 3

Eudelio Garza
Eudelio GarzaFounder

Eudelio is the CEO of Rio. Prior to Rio, he was a Product Manager at BlockVigil, a dev platform that provides Matic nodes as a service. He onboarded 30 developers and helped the company reach 1 billion API calls/day. When talking to web3 devs, he realized the need for better on-and-off ramping infrastructure in emerging markets.

Javier Roberts
Javier RobertsFounder

Building Rio

Ricardo Villarreal Chapa
Ricardo Villarreal ChapaFounder
πŸŽ“ Boston University

Co-founder of Rio (YC S22). Studied Computer Engineering at Boston University. Ex engineering product manager (for banks) and private equity analyst. Enjoys training BJJ, rockclimbing, and tennis.

FintechPaymentsFintechCrypto / Web3PaymentsLatin America

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