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Boya (YC W22) — Corporate expense cards and spend management for businesses in africa

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending.

Boya is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Corporate Expense cards and Spend management for businesses in Africa. The founders listed are Alphas Sinja (Founder), Robert Nyangate (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 15, 2022).

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Boya

New accelerator entry · 2022-02-15 · the record

Winter 2022
batch
9
people
Early
stage
Kenya
region
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BatchWinter 2022
Announced2022-02-15
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size9
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech
SectorsFinOps, Fintech, Payments, B2B, Neobank
RegionsKenya, Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedNairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
HiringNo
Sitehttps://boyahq.com/
Founded2021

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Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows

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