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Hello. I'm Lalo García.
Co-founder of Bando & Espacio. Before that: Bitso, MOVii, KillB.
I build products, partnerships, and revenue at the intersection of fintech and AI.
ABOUT
I'm Lalo García, co-founder of Bando and Espacio. I trained in finance, studied business and entrepreneurship in the United States, and have spent the last nine years in crypto: first as a trader, then building products for millions of users.
At Bitso, the largest crypto exchange in Latin America, I led web3 products for 6M+ users and built liquidity trading bots for its main books. At MOVii, a Colombian neobank backed by Square, I worked hand-in-hand with regulators to secure Colombia's first crypto sandbox and launched the country's first regulated crypto offering. At KillB, I took a cross-border payments product from zero to $1B a year in volume, in one year.
Today I split my time between Bando, where we build API infrastructure for on-chain financial products and where I closed partnerships with Bridge and Privy (both now part of Stripe), Binance, Base, World App, and Minipay, and Espacio, one of the largest Spanish-language media brands for crypto and AI. Everything I do runs AI-first: research, prototyping, content, and operations.
PARTNERSHIPS CLOSED: BRIDGE · PRIVY · BINANCE · BASE · WORLD APP · MINIPAY
I closed both partnerships for Bando's on-chain product stack. They're also core Espacio clients: three events produced for Bridge across Mexico and Argentina, invitations to Stripe Sessions, and a close working relationship with the Stripe ecosystem, including the Tempo team.
Strategic integrations that put Bando's rails inside the wallets and super apps reaching hundreds of millions of users, negotiated end-to-end: pricing, SLAs, and integration scope.
Worked extensively with regulators to secure the sandbox behind the country's first regulated crypto offering, inside a neobank backed by Square.
Activations, events, and university programs across LATAM. The distribution side of every alliance I build: media becomes community, and community becomes reach.
ESPACIO
One of the largest Spanish-language media brands for crypto and AI. Not just content: distribution infrastructure for companies entering Spanish-speaking markets, built over five years of podcasts, events, and education.
CLIENTS & PARTNERS: BRIDGE · PRIVY · BASE · UNISWAP · ETH FOUNDATION · SOLANA FOUNDATION · MONAD AND MORE
Data-driven insights on crypto, AI, and building companies. No hype — just what matters.
Espacio: media becomes community, and community becomes distribution.
Bando: API infrastructure so fintechs, wallets, and apps can launch investment products, built with partners like Bridge and Privy.
Content, community, and product: the same loop, feeding itself.
The important conversation about AI is no longer about the model. It is about a company's ability to turn that intelligence into execution.
Lo que revela el estudio de Anthropic sobre millones de conversaciones reales con IA y el futuro del empleo.