Takenos Raises $7 Million to Build Latin America’s Stablecoin Financial System, Expanding to 15+ Countries in 2027

The seed extension was led by North Island Ventures and Road Capital Management, with participation from existing investors Variant, Lattice, and Reverie. This round brings Takenos’ total funding to $12 million.

BUENOS AIRES, November 4, 2026 — Four years after its founding, Takenos now processes more than $5 billion in volume per year and serves millions of users across operations in six countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and Guatemala. Global brands such as LATAM Airlines run payments and financial services on its infrastructure, and in Bolivia its corporate clients include energy and mining companies, among them oil producers. In 2027, Takenos will be providing services to more than 15 countries across the region.

The Latin America that global fintech skipped

Beyond Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina, Latin America has 19 markets that collectively have more than $1 trillion per year in cross-border flows. Incumbents lack the technology and know-how to move money the way people and businesses in the region now demand: instantly, in dollars, across currencies and borders. Takenos was built to fill this gap. 

A vertically integrated finance stack

Takenos develops the entire stack: local rails and licensing in every market it serves; a consumer app with cards and dollar accounts; a platform for SMEs; corporate APIs for payroll, payouts and treasury; and an institutional trading desk, with partners including Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. In Bolivia, Takenos became the first company incorporated and regulated by ASFI, the country’s financial supervisory authority, under its new fintech framework. Owning every layer allows Takenos to serve a freelancer in La Paz, an exporter in Guayaquil and a global airline’s crew on the same infrastructure. The perfect moment for stablecoins in Latin America is now: as the United States and other jurisdictions bring stablecoins under regulation, consumer trust and use of stablecoins are exploding.

“The next great financial company in Latin America will be stablecoin-native. This is the future of the financial system,” said Lucas Posada, CEO and co-founder of Takenos. “We didn’t put an app on top of someone else’s rails. We built the rails: the licenses, our own stablecoin, local on- and off-ramps in every market. That’s why we are live in six countries today and will be in more than 15 next year, while the incumbents are still scoping their first pilot. This round is fuel. The rest of the region is next.”

“Takenos is doing the hard thing: building regulated stablecoin infrastructure in the markets everyone else overlooks, and the numbers prove that users in those markets were waiting for them,” said Travis Scher at North Island Ventures. “We invested in the seed, watched the team execute at a super high level across six countries, and wanted to support them even more deeply. We believe that Takenos can become the leading financial network for Latin America.”

What the capital funds

The new capital will fund Takenos’ expansion to more than 15 countries in 2027, including licenses and local rails in each new market; the scaling of its enterprise API business with global corporations; the launch of new products; and hiring across engineering, compliance and go-to-market.

About Takenos

Founded in 2022 by Lucas Posada, Joaquín Herrera, Francisco Goulu and Simón Bouché, Takenos is the stablecoin financial platform for Latin America. The company operates a fully integrated stack — licenses, its own stablecoin, a consumer app, an SME platform, corporate APIs and a trading desk — to move money instantly across currencies and borders for individuals, businesses and global enterprises. Takenos is live in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and Guatemala, processes more than $5 billion per year, and is backed by North Island Ventures, Road Capital Management, Variant, Lattice, and Reverie, among others.