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BlindPay

blindpay.com

BlindPay provides a unified API connecting stablecoins, fiat, local payment rails, accounts, and compliance for global payments.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 6h ago
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Business
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Market
Financial Services
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Enterprisesand 1 more customers values
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Commercial Company
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Business
Software Applications
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Market
Financial Services
Customers
Enterprises, Developers
Delivery models
API
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Seed
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About

BlindPay builds a unified stablecoin and global-payments API that connects fiat currencies, blockchain networks, local payment rails, business accounts, and compliance. It sells primarily to fintechs, neobanks, payroll and remittance providers, wallets, marketplaces, and other software businesses that need embedded cross-border payments; its differentiation is abstracting multiple rails and regulatory workflows behind one integration.

Market

BlindPay competes in stablecoin-enabled global payments and embedded financial infrastructure, positioning itself as a developer-first API that combines stablecoins, local payment rails, virtual accounts, and compliance in one integration. Its differentiation is a focused, low-cost LATAM offering with deep local-rail coverage—especially Pix, SPEI, and PSE—alongside multi-chain support and increasingly AI-native developer tooling, whereas competitors such as Bridge, Conduit, Crossmint, and BVNK generally emphasize broader global, enterprise, or full-stack stablecoin infrastructure.

Target Customers

BlindPay primarily serves developer-led fintechs, crypto-native companies, neobanks, payroll platforms, payment service providers, and remittance businesses that need cross-border money movement. Its core buyers are engineering, product, finance, and operations teams at startups, growth-stage companies, and larger platforms seeking low-cost local-rail access—particularly in Latin America—without building payment, blockchain, and compliance infrastructure themselves.

At a Glance

Problem

BlindPay addresses the friction and cost of cross-border business payments, particularly across Latin America. Traditional correspondent-bank transfers can cost 1.5–6% for B2B payments, take two to five business days or longer, and sometimes involve multiple intermediaries and costs of hundreds of dollars. Currency volatility, high inflation, fragmented local payment systems, and jurisdiction-specific compliance requirements make international money movement unpredictable and operationally expensive. The clearest use case is enabling fintechs, payroll and remittance providers, wallets, marketplaces, and other platforms to send and receive money across borders without separately integrating every local rail and compliance workflow.

Product / Service

BlindPay provides API-first stablecoin payment infrastructure. Through one integration, companies can orchestrate fiat and stablecoin transfers across multiple blockchains, convert USDC or USDT into local fiat, connect to instant domestic rails such as Pix, SPEI, PSE, SEPA, and Transfers 3.0, and support virtual accounts and payment tracking. Its REST API, public OpenAPI documentation, and multi-language SDKs are designed to let product teams add fiat gateways and global payment functionality with minimal code.

The platform combines payment execution with compliance services, including blockchain screening, tiered KYC/KYB, and transaction monitoring. BlindPay says this model provides faster settlement, 24/7 payments, lower transaction costs, and reductions in payment times of up to 80%. Regulated money transmission is performed through authorized financial-institution partners rather than by BlindPay itself, allowing the company to provide the technical and orchestration layer while relying on partner licenses for regulated activities.

Market

BlindPay competes in the fintech payments infrastructure, payments API, and stablecoin-as-a-service markets, with an apparent emphasis on Latin America and global fiat–stablecoin connectivity. Its alternatives include traditional correspondent banking, country-by-country local payment integrations, and other stablecoin payment APIs. The available research does not name specific direct competitors, so it supports identifying the competitive categories and substitutes but not a reliable named competitor list.

BlindPay was founded in 2024, is an active Y Combinator Winter 2025 company, and is listed with a team size of nine. PitchBook reports that it has raised $3.8 million, while its 2026 changelog shows continued expansion of supported blockchain networks. The supplied evidence demonstrates an active, funded product and a broad target customer set, but does not establish BlindPay’s own revenue, payment volume, or customer count; it therefore should not be confidently labeled either pre-revenue or revenue-generating from this evidence alone.

Founders & Leadership

Bernardo SimonassiFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Joao BorgesFounder
Co-Founder
Gustavo MarinhoFounder
Co-Founder & CPO

Funding History

2025-03
Pre-Seed (reported as Seed by Tracxn and other databases)$500K

Y Combinator

2025-08
Seed$3.3M

Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Circle Ventures, Bitso Business (Bitso), Transpose Platform, Acacia Venture Capital Partners, Jawed Karim, Raphael Dyxklay, Caetano Lacerda

Recent News

2026-08-11other
BlindPay reportedly surpasses $2.5B in annualized TPV

BlindPay reportedly crossed $2.5 billion in annualized transaction processing volume with a 10-person team. The milestone was publicly shared on August 11, 2026, alongside a claim that each team member is substantially more productive than employees at comparable companies.

2025-12-26other
JPMorgan Chase Freezes Accounts of 2 Stablecoin Companies Doing Business in Venezuela

PYMNTS reported that JPMorgan froze accounts used by BlindPay and Kontigo after flagging business activity in Venezuela and other sanctioned or legally risky locations. BlindPay said regulated activities were conducted through authorized financial-institution partners and emphasized its compliance and governance controls.

2025-08-01funding
BlindPay Raises $3.3M Seed Round

BlindPay announced a $3.3 million seed round. Reported backers included Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Bitso Business, Transpose Platform, Acacia Venture Capital Partners, and angel investors including Jawed Karim.

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Business Model

BlindPay's specific pricing schedule is not disclosed in the available corpus. Based on its API infrastructure, business customer base, and payment-rail orchestration, it most plausibly monetizes API access and payment activity through usage- or transaction-based fees, while regulated money movement is performed through licensed financial institution partners.

Products

Unified global payments API connecting fiat bank rails and stablecoinsStablecoin payment infrastructure for payins, payouts, wallet operations, and fiat conversionVirtual business and customer accountsLocal-rail payment connectivity, including ACH, wire, SWIFT, Pix, SPEI, and PSEDeveloper tooling, including REST API documentation, webhooks, CLI, MCP Server, and Agent Skills

Tech Stack

REST APIStablecoins, primarily USDC and USDTMulti-chain blockchain connectivity, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Solana, and StellarLocal fiat payment rails and virtual accountsWebhooksAI-agent developer tooling, including CLI, MCP Server, and Agent Skills

Competitors

Bridge
Conduit
Crossmint
BVNK
MuralPay