IBEX: Building Bitcoin Infrastructure ⚡️ Globally

IBEX: Building Bitcoin Infrastructure ⚡️ Globally

Author: Lightning Ventures February 6, 2023 Duration: 54:51

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Lightning⚡️Ventures Syndicate Q&A with IBEX CEO Jose Lemus (poweredbyibex.io). Their seed round was led by Stillmark and had participation from Ten31 Ventures, Hivemind (Max Webster), and Lightning Labs. Also, notable folks like Greg Foss joined the round.  Doubling down again is Ten31 with new investors El Zonte Capital (Max Keiser, Stacy Herbert, and Cory Klippsen), Ridewave Ventures, and HCM Capital. We're lucky and excited to participate, and you can too..... hit us up to learn more! 👇

‘A modular API platform to build Lightning fast payment and remittance applications like never before.’

IBEX is a Bitcoin infrastructure-as-a-service company that builds Lightning infrastructure for enterprise clients. It is focused on making Lightning technology ‘scalable, secure, and reliable’ for businesses that are looking to use the Bitcoin network and integrate it into its operations and services. 

IBEX is in its first stages of integrating Lightning at Grupo Salinas, one of LATAM’s largest conglomerates with 18K+ employees that ‘handles nearly 50% of remittances into Mexico.’ IBEX has already reached 5M of its users via its retail operations.  

IBEX has already connected millions of users to the Lightning Network with existing clients including Starbucks, Dominos, KFC, Subway, Wendy’s, and Pizza Hut in El Salvador. If you heard about El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin, and its Chivo wallet ecosystem, IBEX’s infrastructure was an important piece of the puzzle in setting that up. In fact, at its peak, IBEX was processing 10k+ transactions/day with 99% uptime. We love it. 

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