Cumbuca
Bare-metal access to Brazil's Open Finance and Pix systems
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About Cumbuca
Cumbuca is an infratech bank for developers to build financial products with direct Central Bank connectivity. Instead of working around unreliable middleware, you get bare-metal access to Pix, payment initiation, and data APIs under our license, so you ship products faster and we handle the compliance. There's no vendor lock-in, and your service will never be disrupted by us.
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Cumbuca: questions
Which YC batch was Cumbuca in?
Cumbuca was in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch (S21).
Is Cumbuca still active?
Y Combinator lists Cumbuca as active.
Where is Cumbuca based?
Cumbuca lists São Paulo, SP, Brazil as its location on YC's directory.
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