Paystack’s connection with banks was critical for early success,” Adedeji Olowe, founder of Lendsqr and a Trustee of Open Banking Nigeria, shared in a text with TechCabal Teamapt grew out of Fidelity Bank and Wema Bank. For example, Flutterwave grew out of Access Bank. “Nigerian banks were the incubators or early supporters of Fintechs in Nigeria.
The success achieved by these startups lies a great deal in the path created by commercial banks in the country in the last two decades. Buoyed by the successful acquisition of local startup Paystack by payment giant Stripe in 2020, fintech startups in the country received over 60% of the $1.3 billion raised by Nigerian startups last year. They leverage technology to increase access to financial services to previously underbanked and unbanked segments of the population. This data is exclusive of estimated grants from accelerators like Techstars or Y Combinator.Īcross the globe, the financial services industry is faced with competition from fintech startups. Raises are often announced later than when the deals are actually made. Note: This data compiles only funding deals announced in September 2022. Nigerian fintech NowNow’s $13 million seed round.South African biometrics platform iiDENTIFii’s $15 million raise.Nigerian digital procurement platform Vendease’s $30 million raise.
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Nigerian crypto exchange startup Yellowcard’s $40 million Series B raise.Bboxx’s $200 million acquisition of Ghana-based cleantech PEG Africa.The top five disclosed deals of September 2022 are North Africa brought in the lowest funding from September with $16,650,000 in disclosed funding. Next is East Africa with $27,220,000, while South African startups came a close third with $26,650,000.
Per region, West Africa led with $313,045,000 of the funding. Per sector, the top three sectors in September are energy, fintech and e-commerce. This month’s raise was led by Bboxx’s $200 million acquisition of PEG Africa. So far, this total is the highest amount raised in a month by African startups since June 2022, a 75.9 % increase from August’s $218,000,000. The data presented on this page does not represent the view of Cleantech Open and its employees or that of Zippia.Ĭleantech Open may also be known as or be related to CLEANTECH OPEN and Cleantech Open.In September 2022, African startups made 36 fully disclosed* raises totalling $383,465,000. None of the information on this page has been provided or approved by Cleantech Open. While we have made attempts to ensure that the information displayed are correct, Zippia is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of this information. Sources of data may include, but are not limited to, the BLS, company filings, estimates based on those filings, H1B filings, and other public and private datasets. The data on this page is also based on data sources collected from public and open data sources on the Internet and other locations, as well as proprietary data we licensed from other companies.
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