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Aella (YC W17) — Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across africa

Aella appears in Y Combinator's company directory in the Winter 2017 batch, listed 2016-11-08. Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa..

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Aella: Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2017

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New accelerator entry · 2016-11-08 · the record

Winter 2017
batch
60
people
Early
stage
Nigeria
region
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Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion and empowerment of the underbanked. Aella’s Debt-as-a-service model ensures that agents across Africa are able to have quick and easy access to funding through its partnerships with leading agency banks across the continent.

What the record says

BatchWinter 2017
Announced2016-11-08
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size60
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Credit and Lending
SectorsBanking as a Service, Fintech, Microinsurance
RegionsNigeria, Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedLagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria
HiringNo
Sitehttp://www.aellaapp.com
Previously known asAella Credit

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