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Flutterwave (YC S16) — Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in africa

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers.

Flutterwave is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2016 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa. The founders listed are Adeleke Adekoya (Founder), Olugbenga GB Agboola (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 28, 2016).

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Flutterwave

New accelerator entry · 2016-04-28 · the record

Summer 2016
batch
500
people
Growth
stage
Nigeria
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2016
Announced2016-04-28
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size500
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Payments
SectorsFintech
RegionsNigeria, Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedLagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria
HiringNo
Sitehttps://flutterwave.com

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At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Angela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $20 billion in payments and 100 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

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