In this Lightning Ventures Quick Pitch, Felipe, founder of Sati, shares how his company is breaking barriers to #bitcoin and #stablecoin adoption in emerging markets. By leveraging WhatsApp’s 3 billion-strong user base, Sati enables instant, non-custodial crypto payments on even the most basic smartphones. Felipe discusses the unique technical challenges of building on WhatsApp, the company’s rapid growth past 20,000 users, and innovative use cases like mining pool payouts and partnerships. With a modular architecture and white-label solutions, Sati is positioning itself to bring financial access to the next billion users.
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Sati’s mission: bring Bitcoin and stablecoins to emerging markets
- Leveraging WhatsApp as a payments platform (3B users)
- Solving challenges of app storage limitations on low-capacity smartphones
- Non-custodial wallet design using phone numbers and PINs
- Modular architecture: Spanish bot, English bot, white-label wallet solutions
- Key backers: Tim Draper, Ricardo Salinas, Outlier Ventures, Boost VC
- Target markets: countries w/ unstable economies, high WhatsApp adoption
- Growth milestones: 10K users → 20K users in 4 months
- Mining pool payouts via Sati: auto-wallet creation and BTC airdrops
- Partnership to onboard 1.5M users into Lightning
- Meta (WhatsApp & Instagram) testing stablecoin payments- Projections: 100K → 250K users by end of year
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