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Fingo Africa (YC S21) — A neobank for Africa's 500 million youth

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Fingo is building a pan-African digital bank. Today, most Africans pay 5-15% fees to transfer money to friends, family, or businesses - with Fingo these fees will be 90% cheaper.

Fingo Africa is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: A neobank for Africa's 500 million youth. The founders listed are Kiiru Muhoya (Founder), Ian Njuguna (Founder), Gitari Tirima (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, August 28, 2021).

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Fingo Africa

New accelerator entry · 2021-08-28 · the record

Summer 2021
batch
8
people
Early
stage
Kenya
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2021
Announced2021-08-28
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size8
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech
SectorsNeobank
RegionsKenya, Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedNairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
HiringNo
Sitehttps://fingo.africa
Founded2020

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Fingo is building a pan-African digital bank. Today, most Africans pay 5-15% fees to transfer money to friends, family, or businesses - with Fingo these fees will be 90% cheaper. In 240 seconds, any young person will be able to access a full suite of financial services including personal, business, investment and savings accounts.

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