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Cowrywise (YC S18) — Digitizing wealth management in africa

Cowrywise is a FinTech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply. We are leveraging technology and investment management to re-imagine how financial planning, savings and investment products are delivered to people.

Cowrywise is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2018 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Digitizing wealth management in Africa. The founders listed are Razaq Ahmed (Founder/CEO), Edward Popoola (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 16, 2018).

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Cowrywise

New accelerator entry · 2018-05-16 · the record

Summer 2018
batch
40
people
Early
stage
Nigeria
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2018
Announced2018-05-16
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size40
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Asset Management
SectorsFintech
RegionsNigeria, Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedLagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria
HiringNo
Sitehttps://cowrywise.com
Previously known asCowryWise

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Cowrywise is a FinTech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply. We are leveraging technology and investment management to re-imagine how financial planning, savings and investment products are delivered to people. We do this by helping our customers achieve their savings and investments goals in a simple, secure and affordable manner.

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