Launch Africa Ventures

Happy Pay is a company focused on developing a credit scoring system that offers consumers a responsible alternative to traditional credit options. It operates a Buy Now Pay Later platform that allows users to make purchases and pay for them over time. To enhance the shopping experience, Happy Pay integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with merchants' platforms, aiming to increase their average basket size and improve customer conversion rates. By leveraging this innovative technology, Happy Pay seeks to provide a seamless and efficient service that benefits both consumers and merchants.

Cauri Money is a financial services provider offering users the ability to exchange, save, manage, and send money. It features a wallet with a BG IBAN, peer-to-peer payment capabilities, virtual and physical Mastercards, and dedicated financial supervision.

Kredete is a fintech platform serving African immigrants and global businesses in North America. It offers competitive foreign exchange rates, low-fee remittances to over 20 countries, and digital banking services, aiming to boost users' credit scores.

Balad is an open banking platform that serves migrant communities worldwide. It offers cross-border remittance services, mobile banking apps, and prepaid debit cards to connect migrants abroad with their family members at home.

Peach Payments is a company that specializes in providing payment solutions for online and mobile businesses, facilitating the acceptance of payments from consumers worldwide, with a strong emphasis on emerging markets, particularly in Africa and the BRIC countries. The company has developed an online payment platform that offers a variety of electronic payment services. This platform features a well-documented API for easy integration, allows payment collection through email and SMS, and includes secure tokenization for storing card data. Additionally, it enhances user experience by enabling one-click checkouts, ensuring a safe and efficient transaction process across all digital channels.

Founded in 2017, WorkPay Technologies offers a cloud-based platform for managing payroll, benefits, HR, and employee self-service needs. Its solution caters to small and medium-sized businesses across Africa.

Kredi is a neo bank building Africa's one-stop shop for digital financial services. Kredi is a platform that eliminates all the challenges of using multiple applications and allows users to manage all aspects of their financial lives. We are fully licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. We provide access to digital financial services such as savings, credit, payment, investments, and insurance to all consumers in Nigeria in one place.

SmartWage Pty Ltd. is a financial technology company based in Johannesburg, South Africa, that provides innovative payday solutions aimed at enhancing financial wellness for employees. Founded in 2019, SmartWage offers services that allow employees to track their earnings and access their earned salaries on demand. The company also provides salary-packaging administration services to both employers and employees, making it one of the most affordable and accessible options in the South African market. Through its offerings, SmartWage seeks to improve the overall financial well-being of individuals by enabling timely access to earned wages.

Djamo is a fintech company offering a mobile application that enables users to use their cards fee-free across various services. The app provides free physical and virtual cards, automatic savings features, salary reception options, expense tracking, and withdrawal controls.

Bitmama facilitates trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and other digital assets in Africa. Users can create wallets, connect bank accounts or mobile money services to buy or sell cryptocurrencies.

Zazuu is a fintech company that provides a platform for sending money across borders, specifically aimed at making remittances more equitable for Africans. The application enables users to search and compare various reputable money transfer providers, ensuring they find the best deals and save money on each transaction. Additionally, Zazuu allows customers to manage multiple currencies, enhancing the flexibility and convenience of cross-border money transfers.

Founded in 2017, WorkPay Technologies offers a cloud-based platform for managing payroll, benefits, HR, and employee self-service needs. Its solution caters to small and medium-sized businesses across Africa.

Founded in London in 2017, PayQin operates an e-wallet platform with a mobile application featuring a built-in virtual debit card for online payments. It specializes in facilitating cross-border payments for individuals and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), offering low fees, real-time processing, and a user-friendly experience.

Cauri Money is a financial services provider offering users the ability to exchange, save, manage, and send money. It features a wallet with a BG IBAN, peer-to-peer payment capabilities, virtual and physical Mastercards, and dedicated financial supervision.

Happy Pay is a company focused on developing a credit scoring system that offers consumers a responsible alternative to traditional credit options. It operates a Buy Now Pay Later platform that allows users to make purchases and pay for them over time. To enhance the shopping experience, Happy Pay integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with merchants' platforms, aiming to increase their average basket size and improve customer conversion rates. By leveraging this innovative technology, Happy Pay seeks to provide a seamless and efficient service that benefits both consumers and merchants.

Credrails provides infrastructure that unifies bank, mobile money, and offline data through a single API, enabling fintech developers and financial institutions to build interoperable services. The platform supports open banking rails by connecting banks and other financial data sources into one programmable interface, facilitating movement of money across multiple channels and African markets.

Elevate Pay is a financial technology company developing a digital banking platform that provides regulated banking services and consumer financial products. The platform enables online account opening, fee-free SDG and USD bank accounts, a free USD Mastercard, and transfers within Sudan as well as free international transfers from several countries, supporting accessible and inclusive financial services.

Maxicash is a developer of a payment and remittance application designed for diaspora members to support their loved ones back home financially. The company's application is a financial support ecosystem to cater to untapped markets, enabling users to send money, buy electronic vouchers, buy airtime vouchers, pay for schools and hospitals, and also donate money to churches and NGOs.

Ceviant Finance specializes in cloud-based treasury and payment automation solutions. The company provides a comprehensive platform designed to enhance cash and treasury management for businesses. Its offerings include services such as cash liquidity management, virtual accounts, receivables management, electronic invoicing, and working capital loans aimed at facilitating international trade. By enabling businesses to manage multiple bank accounts and centralize their payment processes, Ceviant Finance helps streamline financial operations and improve efficiency in cash forecasting and trade financing.

WayaMoney is a digital banking platform that specializes in providing payment and money transfer solutions across Africa. The platform enables users to send and receive payments instantly and seamlessly, catering to both individuals and businesses. WayaMoney facilitates a range of services, including payments for utility bills, digital satellite television subscriptions, online purchases, and airline ticket bookings. By offering low-cost money transfers, WayaMoney addresses the needs of an increasingly unbanked population and supports small and medium-sized enterprises engaging in cross-border trade. The company's goal is to simplify payment processes and enhance financial inclusion throughout the continent.

Cauri Money is a financial services provider offering users the ability to exchange, save, manage, and send money. It features a wallet with a BG IBAN, peer-to-peer payment capabilities, virtual and physical Mastercards, and dedicated financial supervision.

Stax is all of your bank accounts, mobile wallets, crypto in a single app that works without mobile data.

Kalpay operates a mobile payment platform that enables users to scan, transfer money, pay bills, and purchase phone credit via a secure electronic wallet. It offers financial institutions, merchants, and businesses digital payment solutions for sending and receiving payments online.

Fingo Africa is a fintech startup that offers a digital banking platform aimed at young customers. The service includes current accounts, real‑time money transfers, bill and utility payments, link‑based payments, and savings goal tools. The platform enables users to send money to friends, family, or businesses through a mobile interface, providing a convenient and comprehensive digital banking experience.

Fingo Africa is a fintech startup that offers a digital banking platform aimed at young customers. The service includes current accounts, real‑time money transfers, bill and utility payments, link‑based payments, and savings goal tools. The platform enables users to send money to friends, family, or businesses through a mobile interface, providing a convenient and comprehensive digital banking experience.

Zazuu is a fintech company that provides a platform for sending money across borders, specifically aimed at making remittances more equitable for Africans. The application enables users to search and compare various reputable money transfer providers, ensuring they find the best deals and save money on each transaction. Additionally, Zazuu allows customers to manage multiple currencies, enhancing the flexibility and convenience of cross-border money transfers.

Julaya is a fintech company empowering African businesses with digital financial solutions. It offers services such as mobile money transactions for employees and suppliers, virtual and physical prepaid cards, utility bill payments, and access to digital loans.

Boya develops a mobile application that allows users to add cards to their phones and pay directly from the application. They enable the user to create a virtual card that can be loaded with e-cash and helps to manage the expenses on a single dashboard.

Peach Payments is a company that specializes in providing payment solutions for online and mobile businesses, facilitating the acceptance of payments from consumers worldwide, with a strong emphasis on emerging markets, particularly in Africa and the BRIC countries. The company has developed an online payment platform that offers a variety of electronic payment services. This platform features a well-documented API for easy integration, allows payment collection through email and SMS, and includes secure tokenization for storing card data. Additionally, it enhances user experience by enabling one-click checkouts, ensuring a safe and efficient transaction process across all digital channels.

Afriex Inc. is a mobile payment application developer based in Oakland, California, specializing in overseas money transfer services. Founded in 2019, the company offers a digital wallet application that allows users to send and receive money globally, utilizing stablecoins to ensure fast and cost-effective remittance solutions. Afriex supports transactions to over 30 countries, enabling users to make payments and manage their finances more efficiently at current exchange rates, while also providing various withdrawal options to enhance the user experience.

FinAccess provides a cloud-based core banking platform and related services for microfinance institutions in growth markets. Its software enables MFIs to send personalized payment reminders, manage arrears, issue transaction notifications, and deliver marketing messages, while generating detailed reports and supporting debit card issuing. The platform integrates with third-party mobile money providers and offers end-to-end IT services—from concept and deployment to ongoing maintenance—to help microfinance institutions reduce costs, improve efficiency, and scale operations, particularly for rural populations. FinAccess is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kaoun is a software platform dedicated to promoting financial inclusion. It offers electronic identification, payment, and credit-related services to transform traditional financial systems sustainably.