Company · Fintech

Bit2Me

bit2me.com ↗ ·Elche ·Series C

Bit2Me is a Spanish cryptocurrency exchange and digital-asset platform offering trading, a self-custody wallet, a crypto payment card, staking/earn products, and blockchain education (Bit2Me Academy) to retail and institutional users across more than 100 countries. Founded in 2014 in Elche, Spain, it became the first Spanish crypto exchange to receive a MiCA license and has raised over $88M across multiple rounds, most recently a Series C led by Tether in August 2025.

Founded

2014

Founders

News

Rounds

Investors

SectorsFintech, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Payments Start-up MapFintech › Crypto & blockchain infrastructure

Profile updated 31 Jul 2026

Founders

Andrei Manuel

COO & Co-Founder

Leif Ferreira

CEO & Founder

Global models 5

FTX

United States · ftx.com ↗

Retail-focused crypto trading platform that raised massive VC rounds before its 2022 collapse, the largest VC-funded comparable to Bit2Me's exchange model.

$1.73BComparable

Kraken

United States · www.kraken.com ↗

Global retail and institutional crypto exchange offering trading, staking, and a card product, closely matching Bit2Me's product suite.

$1.33BComparable

Coinbase

United States · www.coinbase.com ↗

Retail crypto exchange and wallet platform that, like Bit2Me, built trading, custody, card, and earn products for mainstream users.

$847MComparable

Bitpanda

Austria · www.bitpanda.com ↗

European retail crypto exchange with wallet and card offerings targeting similar Southern/Central European markets as Bit2Me.

$530MComparable

Gemini

United States · www.gemini.com ↗

Regulated retail crypto exchange with wallet, card, and earn products, comparable in regulatory-first positioning to Bit2Me's MiCA licensing strategy.

$424MComparable

Investors 8

BBVA

Investor Spain

Cecabank

Investor Spain

Investcorp

Investor Bahrain

Tether

Investor El Salvador

Unicaja Banco

www.unicajabanco.es ↗

Investor Spain

Funding rounds 6

Other · €30M

Stablecoin issuer Tether led a €30M investment round in Spanish crypto exchange Bit2Me, taking a minority stake to accelerate its EU expansi…

2025-08-07

Debt · €1M

Elche-based crypto platform Bit2Me signed a venture debt financing agreement with BBVA Spark worth around €1M, backed by the EU and the Euro…

2024-01-12

Other · €14M

Spanish digital-asset exchange Bit2Me, registered with the Bank of Spain, closed a €14 million investment led by Bahrain-based Investcorp to…

2023-06-15

Other

Telefónica, through Telefónica Ventures, said at its Metaverse Day on 29 September 2022 that it had invested in the crypto exchange Bit2Me. …

2022-09-29

Seed · €2.5M

The Madrid crypto exchange and wallet platform raised a €2.5M seed round from private investors and business angels. The money funds R&D, ex…

2021-08-02

Seed · €1M

Bit2Me is a cryptocurrency exchange and platform. This was its first outside funding, after six years in business and reaching profitability…

2020-12-01

News & media 1

Published	Article
2026-07-17	Bit2Me se convierte en una app de inversión tradicional: su oferta de acciones y fondos es diez veces mayor que la de criptos ↗ elEconomista