About
Infinia builds compliance-first financial infrastructure that connects traditional clearing networks, digital ledgers, stablecoins, and local payment rails for fintechs, businesses, banks, marketplaces, and digital wallets. Its differentiator is a unified API combining real-time cross-border payments, multi-currency virtual accounts, local regulatory support, and emerging-market expertise.
Market
Infinia competes in B2B financial infrastructure for cross-border money movement, specifically the market connecting local banking and instant-payment rails with stablecoins and digital-ledger settlement across emerging markets. It positions itself as a compliance-first, unified-API provider with local regulatory and banking connectivity, multi-currency virtual accounts, and real-time rails such as PIX and SPEI; this differentiates it from broader stablecoin platforms and payment providers that may offer global orchestration but do not emphasize the same emerging-market last-mile infrastructure.
Infinia targets enterprise fintechs, banks, digital wallets, marketplaces, payment service providers, and corporate platforms that need cross-border collections, payouts, treasury, and stablecoin-to-fiat connectivity across Latin America and other emerging markets. The likely buyers are payments, treasury, product, and compliance leaders at companies expanding across multiple countries; named customers include Stripe/Bridge, OpenFX, Kast, and Despegar.
At a Glance
Problem
Infinia addresses the fragmentation and cost of moving money across Latin America and other emerging markets. Unlike Europe, where open-banking standards are more consistent, each Latin American country has different regulations and payment rails; card acceptance is also difficult, with the company citing roughly a 35% card-decline rate in the region. For fintechs, marketplaces, merchants, and other platforms, the result is lost conversions, expensive intermediary payments, trapped liquidity, and significant operational work to manage local banking and compliance requirements.
The main use case is enabling a business that operates across emerging markets to collect local currency and make real-time payouts without building a separate banking and legal infrastructure in every country. Infinia is particularly focused on bridging stablecoin or digital-asset settlement with local fiat networks such as Brazil’s Pix and Mexico’s SPEI, solving the “last mile” between global digital money and domestic payment systems.
Product / Service
Infinia provides B2B financial infrastructure through a unified API. The platform connects traditional clearing rails with digital-ledger technology, allowing customers to collect payments, convert currencies, perform KYC, manage accounts, and send payouts. Its infrastructure connects local instant-payment networks, multi-currency virtual accounts, and automated on- and off-chain FX netting so customers can move money across markets programmatically.
The delivery model is developer-oriented: customers integrate Infinia’s API and use its account, pay-in, payout, FX, transfer, onboarding, and compliance capabilities rather than assembling separate local providers. The platform can issue virtual accounts, hold and segment local balances, and execute real-time disbursements to merchants, suppliers, partners, or end users. Infinia claims this lets companies expand in weeks rather than years, avoid establishing standalone local entities, reduce correspondent-banking delays and hidden fees, and operate with continuous settlement and built-in local regulatory controls.
Market
Infinia competes in fintech and embedded-finance infrastructure, specifically cross-border payments, account infrastructure, virtual accounts, real-time payment connectivity, and stablecoin-to-fiat settlement for emerging markets. Its closest functional peers are global payment platforms such as Rapyd and Airwallex, which also offer combinations of local payment methods, global payouts, multi-currency transactions, and business accounts; however, the cited materials do not present a formal competitor list from Infinia itself.
The company appears commercially active rather than pre-revenue. Its website claims coverage of more than nine markets with named virtual accounts and more than 200 payout countries, while its July 2026 Series A announcement says it has active clients including Stripe/Bridge, OpenFX, Kast, and Despegar. Founded in 2023, Infinia raised $13.5 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital and Variant Fund, with the stated intention of obtaining additional regulatory licenses and expanding across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The available sources do not disclose revenue, payment volume, or customer-count figures, so the scale of traction cannot yet be quantified beyond these customer, coverage, and funding signals.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Bain Capital, Variant Fund
Recent News
This Week in Fintech reported that Infinia raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to expand infrastructure linking traditional banking networks with stablecoin rails in emerging markets.
This Week in Fintech featured Infinia co-founder and CEO Ianai Urwicz discussing the company’s strategy of building independent infrastructure connecting traditional financial systems with digital-asset networks.
iLifeBelt covered Infinia’s $13.5 million funding and its focus on cross-border payments in emerging markets. The article identifies Ianai Urwicz as CEO and Alejandro Rettig as CTO.
Europa Press coverage reported that Uruguay-based fintech Infinia raised $13.5 million, equivalent to approximately €11.8 million, in a financing round.
Infinia announced a $13.5 million Series A led by Bain Capital and Variant Fund to connect traditional banking with digital assets across emerging markets.
LatamList reported that the Uruguayan financial-infrastructure startup raised a $13.5 million Series A led by Bain Capital and Variant Fund.
Lattice published an investment-focused article on Infinia, describing the structural demand for stablecoin infrastructure in emerging markets and the company’s API-based capabilities for collections, currency conversion, payouts, and stablecoin settlement.
Active Roles
1Business Model
Infinia operates a B2B infrastructure model, selling fintechs, businesses, banks, marketplaces, and wallets access to payment APIs, cross-border payouts, collections, FX, and multi-currency virtual accounts. Public evidence does not disclose a standard price list; the available evidence supports a negotiated, usage-based model involving payment, transfer, FX, and account-service charges.