Dakota

Dakota is building regulated infrastructure for the next generation of digital money. We power fintechs, payment service providers, marketplaces, and enterprises through a stablecoin platform that enables compliant money movement, custody, and cross border settlement. Our API abstracts the complexity of banking partnerships, regulatory obligations, and digital asset orchestration into infrastructure designed for institutional use.

Dakota has raised $16.5M from CoinFund, 6th Man Ventures, and Triton Ventures. We operate as a FinCEN registered Money Services Business, are pursuing Money Transmitter Licenses across the United States, and are building toward Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licensing and Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization in Europe. We issue our own fully collateralized USD backed stablecoin, DKUSD, backed 1:1 by cash and cash equivalents held in segregated accounts.

Our founding team has built regulated financial infrastructure before. Ryan Bozarth previously led Coinbase Custody, helping scale it into the largest crypto custodian in the world. Dakota’s technical co-founder built core infrastructure at Airbnb, bringing deep experience in designing resilient, high-scale systems. Compliance and engineering have been tightly integrated from day one, we build infrastructure to withstand scrutiny, not retrofit it later.

We are a remote first team across North America and Europe. We value high quality work, clear thinking, and ownership.