Waza (YC W23) — B2B payments platform for emerging markets
Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.
Waza is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: B2B payments platform for emerging markets. The founders listed are Maxwell Obi (Founder), Emmanuel Igbodudu (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 10, 2023).
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Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.
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Waza | Global Payments & Treasury Management for Emerging Market Businesses
We help emerging market businesses, multinational corporates and fintechs to manage their liquidity challenges, invoices & global payment needs through our APIs and web platform
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Maxwell Obi
Founder
Maxwell is a 2x founder and experienced FinTech entrepreneur. Before Waza, he served as the Global Head of Business at Sendwave (W12) - which got acquired by Worldremit for $500M. While there he navigated partnerships and regulatory relationships in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder of Amplify, a Nigeria-based FinTech which got acquired by Carbon in 2019. Maxwell has a background in Software Engineering and holds a Degree in Computer Science.
Emmanuel Igbodudu
Founder
Emmanuel is a software engineer with strong experience building financial technology products. Betore Waza, he was a senior engineer at Revolut in London helping to build the vaults product. Prior to Revolut he had held leading roles at Fairmoney, Carbon and TeamApt (now Moneypoint)
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