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Celcoin

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Can a modular Brazilian financial infratech become the single regulatory and technology layer that any company — fintech, ERP, retailer or bank — needs to embed banking, credit, and payments under its own brand?

Founded2016
HQBarueri, SP, Brazil
FoundersMarcelo França
Total raisedR$ 735M+
Latest roundSeries unknown, July 2024
IndustryInfrastructure / BaaS
The story

Founded in 2016 as a payment-access layer for unbanked Brazilians paying bills at lottery kiosks, Celcoin quickly became the infrastructure enabling fintechs and ERPs to embed financial services. The company pivoted from a consumer-facing bill-payment app to a full B2B financial infratech ('infratech financeira') offering modular BaaS, credit, and payments APIs. After two major funding rounds totalling R$ 735M+ and five M&As, Celcoin positioned itself as the backbone of Brazil's embedded-finance ecosystem, serving 6,000+ clients with R$ 30B+ in monthly transaction volume.

Last 12 months
2026-07
2026-05
2026-04
Product timeline
2016
Founded by Marcelo França with the vision of democratizing access to financial services for the ~70 million unbanked Brazilians paying bills at lottery shops.· pivot
2016
Launched payment infrastructure enabling micro and small businesses to accept bill payments via app.· banking
2022
Received R$ 85M investment from Innova Capital, BTG, Vox Capital and Sinqia to accelerate M&A strategy.· acquisition
2022
Repositioned as a financial infratech (BaaS platform) offering modular APIs for banking, credit and payments.· pivot
2024
Received R$ 650M growth equity round led by Summit Partners, targeting product development and M&A.· banking
2025
Announced ambition to become Latin America's leading financial services infrastructure provider after completing five M&As.· acquisition
2026
Launched MCP (Model Context Protocol) server connecting AI coding agents directly to Celcoin's technical documentation, first infratech to do so.· banking
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by Celcoin
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
7 layers disclosed in Celcoin’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Celcoin Gateway de Pagamento (self-operated)Celcoin Subadquirência / AaaS (self-operated)
Money movement
in the full report
Banking / BaaS
in the full report
Card issuing
in the full report
Card network
in the full report
Lending
in the full report
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
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