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WaystoCap takes the pain out of working internationally for businesses all over the African continent, improving their ability to trade. They help them find partners internationally, and regionally; sourcing the most competitive prices; offering better payment terms; and supporting the entire trade.

WaystoCap is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: We are Alibaba of Africa. We are building a marketplace for African…. The founders listed are Niama El Bassunie (Founder/CEO), Aziz Jaouhari (Founder/CTO), Anis Abdeddine (Founder/CSO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 8, 2016).

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WaystoCap

New accelerator entry · 2016-11-08 · the record

Winter 2017
batch
38
people
Growth
stage
Morocco
region
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BatchWinter 2017
Announced2016-11-08
StageGrowth
StatusAcquired
Team size38
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Office Management
SectorsMarketplace, E-Commerce
RegionsMorocco, Middle East and North Africa, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedCasablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
HiringNo
Sitehttps://waystocap.com
Founded2016

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WaystoCap takes the pain out of working internationally for businesses all over the African continent, improving their ability to trade. They help them find partners internationally, and regionally; sourcing the most competitive prices; offering better payment terms; and supporting the entire trade. WaystoCap is a technology driven trading platform focused on Africa. We are backed by some of the best early stage US and international investors including Battery Ventures (investors in Google), 4DX Ventures (investors in Flutterwave) and Y Combinator (Airbnb and Dropbox).

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