“Can a Latin American non-bank acquirer own the regional payments stack end-to-end across five countries with one integration?”
Founded 2017 in Ecuador as an online payment gateway for LATAM, Kushki has progressively built its own regional acquiring infrastructure rather than reselling banks' rails — making it a non-bank acquirer across Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Ecuador. After back-to-back Series B rounds ($186M total) that vaulted it to unicorn status in 2022, the company expanded from PSP-style gateway services into payouts, in-person devices, and merchant-financing partnerships (Anticipa, HayCash). The strategic identity today is 'paytech omnichannel acquirer for LATAM' rather than a single-country gateway.