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Verto (YC W19) — Cross-Border payments and FX simplified

Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies.

Verto is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2019 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Cross-Border Payments and FX Simplified. The founders listed are Anthony Oduwole (Founder), Ola Oyetayo (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, December 6, 2018).

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Verto

New accelerator entry · 2018-12-06 · the record

Winter 2019
batch
170
people
Early
stage
United Kingdom
region
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2019
Announced2018-12-06
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size170
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Payments
SectorsBanking as a Service, Fintech, Payments, B2B, API
RegionsUnited Kingdom, Europe, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedLondon, England, United Kingdom
HiringYes
Sitehttp://www.vertofx.com
Previously known asVerto FX, VertoFX

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Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies. By connecting Businesses, Liquidity providers, FX Brokers, and Payment Institutions, and banks through our marketplace, companies can choose their foreign exchange rates at the time that suits them, therefore, providing a constant liquidity flow cheaply.

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