Flinto

Flinto was a Mexican digital wallet and mobile payment platform founded in 2017 that enabled users to send money to friends, pay at merchants, and manage bills through their mobile phones, even without a bank account. The company was based in Mexico City and participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2018 cohort. Co-founded by Tiago Sada, Carlos Eugenio Sánchez Rabiella, Paolo D'Amico, and Alonso Garcia Molina, Flinto targeted Latin America's unbanked and underbanked populations by allowing users to deposit cash at local shops and restaurants to fund their digital accounts. The platform provided peer-to-peer payment functionality, merchant payment capabilities, and bill payment services designed specifically for the financial inclusion challenges in Mexico and the broader Latin American market. In June 2019, Flinto merged with Grow Mobility, the micromobility company formed from the merger of electric scooter startups Grin and Yellow. The acquisition aimed to integrate Flinto's payment technology into Grow Mobility's transportation platform to create a super-app combining payments and mobility services for the Latin American market. Following the merger, Flinto's standalone brand was gradually phased out as its payment infrastructure was absorbed into Grow Mobility's broader ecosystem. The company had completed seed-stage funding and served tens of thousands of users before the acquisition. Co-founder Tiago Sada later went on to become head of product, engineering, and design at Tools for Humanity, working on the Worldcoin project.