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Cameroonian Fintech Is Building Africa's Payment Rails
Led by CEO Dr. Nkwenti Azong-Wara, Maviance PLC is a Cameroonian digital financial-services company modernising how money moves across Central Africa. Its flagship platform, Smobilpay, connects banks, microfinance institutions, mobile-money operators, businesses and service providers through one digital ecosystem supporting bill payments, collections, bulk disbursements, e-commerce transactions, agent banking and cross-border payments. Since launching in Cameroon in 2012, Mav
Spotlight In Africa
Sep 161 min read
PiggyVest, West Africa's Pioneer in Online Savings and Investment
PiggyVest is a Nigerian fintech company transforming how people save, invest, and manage their money. The company was co-founded by Somto Ifezue (CEO), Odunayo Eweniyi (COO), and Joshua Chibueze (Chief Marketing Officer), who launched the platform in 2016 as Piggybank.ng before rebranding to PiggyVest in 2019. As West Africa’s first online savings and investment platform, PiggyVest enables users to automate savings, invest in curated opportunities, and build long-term financi
Spotlight In Africa
Aug 111 min read
Zambian Platform Enables Africans to Connect, Transact, and Do Business
ChitChat is a Zambian social-commerce and fintech platform designed to make digital transactions as simple as sending a message. The platform was developed by Union54, the fintech company co-founded by Perseus Mlambo (CEO) and Alessandra Martini (COO), which first gained prominence for building payment infrastructure across Africa. ChitChat combines messaging, payments, wallets, and commerce into a single experience, enabling users to communicate, send money, make purchases,
Spotlight In Africa
Aug 111 min read
Kenyan Agri-fintech Using AI, Satellite Data, and Mobile Tech to Help Farmers
Apollo Agriculture is a Kenyan agri-fintech company transforming how smallholder farmers access the tools and capital needed to grow. The company was co-founded by Benjamin Njenga, alongside Eli Pollak and Catherine Berman, to address one of agriculture’s biggest challenges: the lack of affordable financing for small-scale farmers. By combining satellite imagery, machine learning, mobile technology, and agronomic data, Apollo assesses farm-level risk and provides farmers with
Spotlight In Africa
Aug 111 min read
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