Gustavo Marinho

Gustavo Marinho is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at BlindPay, a stablecoin API for global payments based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Founded in 2024, the Y Combinator-backed startup recently raised $3.8 million from investors including Jawed Karim and Bitso, scaling its monthly transaction volume to $10 million within 14 months. Previously, he served as a product leader at PicPay, where he directed the design of a loans marketplace and instant payment initiatives that processed $1.2 million in daily loans during its minimum viable product phase. Before his tenure in consumer finance, Marinho co-founded Dropull, a social gaming platform that he successfully scaled to over 1 million users across the Latin American market. Educated at Universidade Positivo, his professional career centers on developing scalable user interface designs and advancing blockchain-based financial infrastructure for emerging markets.