Top 10 Payments Startup Investors in Costa Rica (October 2026)

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• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
• Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.

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• IMPESA — PCI-DSS certified. #MonibyteApp is the only app with a CryptoWallet and card controls! Kipo partnership with #PayPal. Monibyte for Business for corporations.
• Levita Magnetics — As a medical device start up, Levita Magnetics is passionate about developing innovative magnetic surgical platforms that serve as a catalyst in the continued evolution of less invasive surgery.The company's mission is to enhance patient outcomes by minimizing the footprint of surgical procedures across multiple indications and broadpatient populations. It's innovative magnetic surgical platform, called Magnetic Surgery®, is the next step in the evolution of less invasive surgery.

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• NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs has closed. After three years, we have made the decision to close Reforged Labs.

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• Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.

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• WECO Protocol — WECO Protocol turns real-world assets into opportunities, empowering peopl as stakeholders. With AI and blockchain, we make ownership simple and rewarding

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• Cashaa — Receive, earn, borrow, and send crypto easily with 0% interest loans and high returns on digital assets. Manage your crypto effortlessly today!
• Defi11 — Defi11 is a new-gen true decentralized fantasy gaming platform.

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• Cashaa — Receive, earn, borrow, and send crypto easily with 0% interest loans and high returns on digital assets. Manage your crypto effortlessly today!

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• Movii — Movii aims to reduce inequality by providing access to financial services to the unbanked population through the use of new technologies.
• Tienda Pago — Tienda Pago is the merchant support platform that facilitates your weekly merchandise purchase to distributors. It is the result of years of experience of a team of experts whose objective is to promote ecosystems where all participants, both distributors and traders, benefit from the service and proactively motivate other participants to join thesystem.
• VU — Sebastián Stranieri, is CEO and founder of VU Inc, a multinational company that provides secure and frictionless digital experiences for more than 350 million people over the world. Passionate about technology, he has more than two decades of experience in the cybersecurity industry. His career has always been driven by the desire to innovate insafer solutions that improve the quality of life of citizens and companies, and that is how VU was born. VU focuses on the new concept of “online persona” providing robust identity verification for its users, which allows a more holistic authentication paradigm. Through the combination of traditional cybersecurity controls with geolocation, biometrics and user behavior analysis based on machine learning, VU enables a continuous authentication process where the user is seen as a whole, rather than a set of credentials. In July 2021, VU announced a $12 million Series B funding round with investors such as Globant and Telefonica. Sebastian, is also an Endeavor entrepreneur, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2013 and selected by Forbes Argentina as one of the 30 Promises in 2017. His passion for what he does led him to win the Sadosky Award for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Chamber of the Argentine Software Industry (CESSI) in 2019. VU received several recognitions, such as: Cybersecurity Ventures ranking 500, Santander’s X100 and VISA - La Nación’s Innovation Award, in the category of payment methods and cybersecurity for developing new business models in financial services through the use of technology that mark socioeconomic trends, changes in consumption habits and payment methods and also improve the security of transactions, among many acknowledgments from Microsoft as partners and for our technology, such as: AI Latam Partner of the Year (2021), Global Finalists in IA and Government (2021) and Country Partner of the Year (Argentina, 2019 and Bolivia, 2020)

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• Cashaa — Receive, earn, borrow, and send crypto easily with 0% interest loans and high returns on digital assets. Manage your crypto effortlessly today!

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• Dehurdle — Practice high-stakes conversations with real-time AI. Instant speaking pace and competency feedback. No voice recordings are kept after the session.
• Vireo Capital — Vireo provides software for deal diligence, fund administration, and portfolio monitoring at private market investment firms.
• Hyperbond Studio — An AI-native entertainment company building games, anime and the engines behind them.