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Grey (YC W22) — Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads

Grey provides US, EU, and UK accounts for remote workers in emerging markets. For the first time, western companies feel comfortable recruiting skilled workers from anywhere and Grey is making it easy for these workers to receive their salary, save in foreign currency, convert to local currency and spend.

Grey is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2022 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads. The founder listed is Idorenyin Obong (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 8, 2022).

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Grey

New accelerator entry · 2022-02-08 · the record

Winter 2022
batch
15
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2022
Announced2022-02-08
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size15
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech
SectorsFintech, Consumer, B2B, Neobank
RegionsUnited States of America, Nigeria, America / Canada, Africa, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedSan Francisco
HiringNo
Sitehttps://grey.co
Founded2020
YC group partnerBrad Flora
Previously known asAboki Africa, Grey, Grey (formerly Aboki Africa)

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Grey provides US, EU, and UK accounts for remote workers in emerging markets. For the first time, western companies feel comfortable recruiting skilled workers from anywhere and Grey is making it easy for these workers to receive their salary, save in foreign currency, convert to local currency and spend.

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