Spain-based crypto fintech startup Atani has successfully completed a funding round, securing $6 million in investment. The round was led by Cometa, a prominent Mexican venture capital fund, and featured participation from JME Ventures, Conexo Ventures, CDTI, and a group of Web3 experts, including Neil Cunha-Gomes, Head of FinTech & Crypto for EMEA at Softbank.
Atani, which boasts over 300,000 traders from around the world, has positioned itself as a comprehensive crypto broker, offering a one-stop solution for users to securely buy and sell thousands of tokens across the world’s leading exchanges, analyze market data, and manage their portfolios.
Atani’s Co-founder & CEO, Haydée Barroso, added, “We founded Atani back in 2019 driven by a long-term vision of making investing in crypto markets simple, efficient, and secure. Over the years, our team has proven its unique ability to deliver high-performing regulated financial infrastructure. In the current market context, we are more committed than ever to building the next generation of financial technology.”
Bridging the Gap in the Crypto Ecosystem
The company, founded in 2019, serves users in more than 200 countries and processes over 1,500 million in trading volume. Notably, it recently received regulatory authorization from the Bank of Spain to operate as a Virtual Assets Service Provider. This authorization has paved the way for Atani to launch its own exchange service with robust regulatory guarantees.
Paul Barroso, Co-founder & CPO of Atani, emphasized, “Before Atani existed, crypto traders had to open multiple accounts with different exchanges, devote countless hours to learn how to use each of them, and get frustrated trying to do things as basic as executing an order or checking their balance. The crypto ecosystem was missing an experience similar to that of digital stock brokers.”
The successful funding round underscores the faith investors have in Atani’s mission. As Pepe Bolaños, Managing Partner at Cometa and an early backer of Bitso, Latin America’s first crypto unicorn, noted, “Atani has built infrastructure for the foundational use cases of Web3, transacted volumes, and user activity validates the need for such a platform. Going forward, we are particularly excited about how they will enable crypto use cases for businesses: allowing them to expand their financial products offering to end users.”
Shaping the Next Era of Cryptocurrency Trading
Atani’s innovative approach involves consolidating liquidity and assets from various crypto exchanges, automatically routing each trade to the platform offering the best price. This allows their clients to access all cryptocurrencies in the market from a single account. With a presence in over 200 countries, Atani is poised to use the newly acquired funding to accelerate the growth of its exchange brokerage service and expand its global footprint.
Atani was founded by siblings Paul and Haydée Barroso, both of whom have been involved in the crypto space since 2013. The platform has effectively addressed the issue of fragmentation in the blockchain ecosystem. Today, more than 300,000 traders trust Atani to buy and sell thousands of cryptocurrencies on the world’s largest exchanges, all from a single account, and always at the best price.
In addition to trading, Atani provides users with portfolio management tools, the ability to monitor accounts across different exchanges and wallets, advanced trading and technical analysis tools, price alerts, and automation for reporting. It has emerged as a top-tier developer of regulated financial infrastructure in Europe, authorized as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) by the Bank of Spain, and enjoys the support of leading venture capital funds such as JME Ventures, Cometa, Conexo Ventures, and Encomenda Smart Capital.
Atani’s success in securing $6 million in funding demonstrates the growing demand for simplified and regulated crypto trading platforms in an evolving financial landscape. As the company continues to innovate and expand, it is well-positioned to play a significant role in shaping the future of cryptocurrency trading and investment.
