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Yellow Card joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
Yellow Card enables anyone to buy and sell cryptocurrency in emerging markets. Simply sign up, deposit your local fiat via bank transfer or cash at our many store locations and buy Bitcoin. Or, sell your crypto to us, and pick up cash at any store. With active customers in Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe...
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WiPay joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
WiPay was created in 2016 as a direct result of a persistent problem. The Caribbean faced challenges with digital payments and the lack of ‘financial inclusion' for the majority of persons. WiPay, developed a uniquely ‘inclusive’ platform that is secure, flexible and simple to use. WiPay allows anything connected to the Internet to move money quickly, safely...
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Workpay joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
We’re all about efficiency and productivity at the workplace. While running our software company a few years back, the Workpay founders saw an opportunity in the people space that would enable companies in Africa to hire, manage and pay their teams efficiently. An opportunity to enable employers to handle HR, payroll and compliance across multiple...
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Veend joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
The idea that gave birth to VeendHQ was sparked while building automation problems for financial institutions. They realised that the biggest problem financial institutions encounter is the inability to collect loan repayments effectively. This significantly increases the risk of running a lending business. Hence in 2021, they set out with their automation tools to provide...
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Celo joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
Celo is a mobile-first open source ecosystem of technologies, organizations and individuals that share a common mission of building a financial system to create the conditions for prosperity for everyone. The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), three stablecoins (cUSD, cEUR, and cREAL) and the Celo...
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QoreID joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
QoreID provides an easy to integrate, trouble-free and dependable products delivered as APIs, SDKs or Workflows to help customers focus on building their business. They make it super easy for people to securely onboard and get to know their customers intimately, laying a good foundation for businesses to build products and connect with their customers...
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Zeepay joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
Zeepay is the fastest growing wholly Ghanaian-owned fintech in Ghana focusing on digital rails to connect digital assets such as mobile money wallets, cards, ATMs, Bank Accounts and Digital tokens to International Money Transfer Operators, Payments, Subscriptions, International Airtime and Refugee payments. This is an effort to promote and improve financial inclusion which in turn...
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Cellulant joins Africa Money and Defi Summit, Ghana 2022
Cellulant is a leading Pan African payments company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional, and local merchants. We provide a single API payments platform that enables businesses to collect payments online and offline while allowing anyone to pay from their mobile money, local and international cards or directly from their...
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Bitmama raises additional $1.65 million in pre-seed funding
Blockchain payments startup, Bitmama Inc., has raised an additional $1.65 million in pre-seed funding. This brings its total funding for this round to $2 million, having raised $350,000 10 months ago. The latest round is led by Unicorn Growth Capital and Launch Africa Ventures, with participation from Adaverse and follow-on from Flori Ventures, which led...
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Web 3 needs to be mobile-ready: A case for mass adoption
Article by Brian Kimotho, Chief Marketing Officer, Kotani Pay The internet as imagined by Tim Barnes in the late ’80s was a world wide web that is open, decentralized, and allowed information sharing across the globe. With this knowledge, the journey from Web 1 which was a read-only internet, Web 2, a read-and-write internet, towards...
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