Bitso is a currency exchange offering a bridge for participants to connect between novel financial platforms, like Bitcoin and Ether, and the Mexican Peso.

Bitso offers the highest level of professionalism and security to Bitcoin trading and can be accessed directly at bitso.com. Bitso exchange operates as a traditional currency exchange with a central limit order book.

Bitso was founded in 2014 by Ben Peters, Daniel Vogel and Pablo Gonzalez. The company is based in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Bitso' Advanced APIs allow our consumers to programmatically interact with our systems, automate their operations, and build applications on top of our services.

Bitso may already be the dominant cryptocurrency platform in Latin America boasting 1 million users (primarily in Mexico and Argentina) and is one of the only platforms to be licensed under the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).

 

Bitso is already processing $1.2 billion in remittances for customers, enabling transactions for financial services partners like cryptocurrency-enabled money transmitters.

 

Bitso is backed by QED Investors, Kaszek Ventures, Tiger Global, Coatue, Digital Currency Group, BOND, Pantera Capital, and others. The company raised $250M in a Series C round on May 05, 2021. This brings Bitso's total funding to $316.4M to date. The latest round valued the company at $2.2B post-money.

 

 

  • Year founded: 2014
  • Funding Info: $316.4M over 5 Rounds (Latest Funding Type: Series C)
  • Yearly Revenue: NA
  • Employee Size: 201-500
  • Business Valuation: Valued at $2.2B as of May 05, 2021
  • City/Town: Mexico City
  • State: Distrito Federal
  • Country: Mexico
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