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This Week In Fintech - Africa (01/29)

This Week In Fintech - Africa (01/29)
Top 10 Fintech equity Fundraises in Africa 2023

Hi Fintech friends 👋, 

Here are the highlights of what happened in African Fintech this week;

  • A Nigerian fintech startup processed $150 billion in 2023.
  • Y Combinator added a banking-as-a-service African startup to its portfolio.
  • An African VC ran a "stay default alive" masterclass for its portfolio.
  • A Buy Now Pay Later African startup pivoted its business model to focus on cross-border payments.
  • A fintech startup shut down despite having one year of runway.
  • Opportunity to work at one of four amazing African fintech companies.

💸 Fundraise and Exits

  • Miden raised $500K from Y-Combinator for it’s Banking as a Service to enable African companies build and launch financial products such as virtual card programs, credit systems, reconciliation, and expense management systems.
List of African “Banking as a Service” startups

💰 Venture Funds

  • Here are the key insights African VC Ventures Platform shared with it’s portfolio companies.

🚀 Partnerships & Product Launches

  • Interswitch and OPay partnered for secure payments, following reported fraud cases.
Fraud data on most attacked ID documents Across Africa
  • Visa and Pesaflow partnered to improve digital payments in Kenya.
  • Zilla discontinued its buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) service to focus on Zillawire, it‘s newly launched cross-border payment.
Africa’s BuyNow Pay Later market projections(2021-2028)
  • Raise launched an AI powered tool to Clean up cap tables and corporate structures for African startups.
  • Honeycoin launched the “everything app” for users anywhere in the world.

📰 News of the Week


Moniepoint (previously TeamApt) processed more than 5 billion transactions worth over $150 Billion in 2023 .

MoneyPoint key products

In 2023, Moniepoint(previously TeamApt) one of Nigeria's largest payments startups, processed an impressive 5.2 billion transactions (~433 million transactions monthly) worth over $150 Billion. It represents a 205% increase from 2022, when the startup processed 1.7 billion transactions worth over $100 billion.

MoniePoint funding rounds

Moniepoint currently boasts over 2 million business accounts and 800,000 active POS terminals used daily nationwide. Its business clientele spans various sectors, with the majority coming from retail (38.29%), followed by food and drinks (17.77%), oil and gas (9.11%), IT and electronics (6.12%), beauty and personal care (4.5%), and agriculture (4%).

📑 Read of the week

  • Fintech and energy illuminate DR Congo’s nascent startup ecosystem.  (Techcabal)
  • Global interest, local impact: Seedstar’s Cyrine Ben Fadhel's outlook for African VC. (Benjamindada)

📖 Other News, Reads, and Media

  • Nigerian fintech startup, Cova shut down after two years.
African startups that shutdown in 2023
  • Access HoldCo finalized stages of regulatory approval to acquire ARM Pensions.
Largest Banks in Nigeria by total assets: Access Bank being the Top
  • Livestock Wealth’s lead investor stated that it did the requisite due diligence before investing $530,000) into the company.
  • Nigerian Banks and fintech joined forces to tackle soaring fraud.
  • OPay planned to enforce KYC requirements in March 2024 to prevent fraud and impersonation.
Opay’s journey; from launch to $2 Billion in valuation
  • M-PESA faced another outage in January for undisclosed reasons.
How big is M-PESA by figures

🎥 VIDEO INTERVIEWS/DISCUSSIONS

In Conversation with Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede who is one of the most successful and esteemed businesspeople on the continent. In 2002, he led the acquisition of Access Bank, which under his 11-year leadership grew into the largest bank in Nigeria and one of the largest in Africa.

🦉 Tweet of the Week

🎯 Fintech Opportunities

  • FairMoney is hiring for Vertical Lead - Merchant Acquiring .
  • Yassir is hiring for Product Manager(Financial Services)
  • Flutterwave is hiring for Product Manager, SMB
  • M-Kopa is hiring for Product Manager - Portfolio Management.

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