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peopleCQ (YC W21) — Employer backed payroll advances for employees in egypt

NowPay, a FinTech startup founded by ex-employees of IBM, Microsoft, Orange and Amazon, is building a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets. Saving, spending, budgeting and borrowing.

peopleCQ is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Employer backed payroll advances for employees in Egypt. The founders listed are Mostafa Ashour (Founder), Ahmed Abuelenien (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 6, 2021).

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peopleCQ

New accelerator entry · 2021-03-06 · the record

Winter 2021
batch
85
people
Early
stage
Egypt
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2021
Announced2021-03-06
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size85
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Asset Management
SectorsRecruiting, HR Tech
RegionsEgypt, Middle East and North Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedCairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.peopleCQ.com
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NowPay, a FinTech startup founded by ex-employees of IBM, Microsoft, Orange and Amazon, is building a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets. Saving, spending, budgeting and borrowing. Those are the 4 pillars of financial-wellness. NowPay aims to improve every aspect of those for employees by building products that tackle every vertical. NowPay enables employees to get their salaries in advance at any point in time during the month and also pay their bills instantly. NowPay is backed by 500 Startups, Beco Capital, Endure, Plug and Play, MSA Capital, 4dx, Foundation Ventures, EFG and Beltone and has raised 3.7m USD so far.

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