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Home » Visa Shortlists 20 Startups for its Africa Fintech Accelerator Program Cohort 2

Visa Shortlists 20 Startups for its Africa Fintech Accelerator Program Cohort 2

Joan Aimuengheuwa by Joan Aimuengheuwa
May 18, 2024
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Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Program
Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Program

Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator Program

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  • The Visa Fintech Accelerator program provides startups in Africa with valuable 1:1 mentorship, personalized training, and networking opportunities.
  • The fintech companies have been selected from 28 African countries – of these, 65% are female-led.
  • Start-ups will participate in a 12-week program designed to uplift innovation across Africa.

Visa, a world leader in digital payments, has announced the startups shortlisted from across Africa to participate in the second cohort of its Africa Fintech Accelerator program.

As part of Visa’s work to unlock financial innovation across the continent, the biannual program offers 12 weeks of 1:1 mentorship and personalized training, providing seed to series A startups with exclusive opportunities to access funding, development, and resources.

Cohort 2 startups operate across 28 African countries, a 55% increase from Cohort 1 where the representatives operated across 18 countries. 65% of them feature female leadership, rising from 43% in the inaugural edition.

The selected startups offer a range of solutions, such as neo-banking, merchant payments, credit scoring, risk and identity management, embedded finance, social commerce, escrow services, and more.

They aim to address the challenges and opportunities in the African fintech landscape, such as financial inclusion, access to credit, cross-border payments, and digital transformation.

Aida Diarra, vice president, and head of Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa remarked: “At Visa, we believe in uplifting innovation while driving access and inclusion across the financial ecosystem. Today, we are proud to say that our second cohort of Accelerator participants represents more than 50% of countries across Africa, up from a third during our first cohort. Not only that–but women are in leadership roles across most of these cutting-edge startups. We have a robust, diverse selection of innovators seeking to shape the future of commerce and finance – and Visa is happy to help them take the next step to where they need to be.”

The Accelerator program, launched in June 2023, is reflective of Visa’s ongoing efforts to help uplift the digital economy in Africa, including a pledge to invest $1 billion in the continent by 2027 to help revolutionize the payments ecosystem.

The 12-week virtual Accelerator program will conclude with an in-person Demo Day, where startups will have the opportunity to pitch their innovations to key ecosystem players, funding partners, angel investors, and venture capitalists, enabling them to take small steps towards unlocking their full potential.

The program builds on the success of the first cohort, who graduated in February 2024 with an investor week in Nairobi that saw the participation of more than 250 attendees including banking and fintech partners, investors, and venture capital firms.

The first cohort startups have since reported positive outcomes from the program, such as increased user growth, product enhancements, funding opportunities, and strategic partnerships with Visa and other industry players.

Dolapo Adejuyigbe, co-founder and Co-CEO of Traction, a Nigerian startup, and developers of the Traction App, a one stop platform for small businesses to accept payments, run their businesses and access capital for growth, who participated in the first cohort, commented:

“The Visa Accelerator Program has been very engaging infused with practical learnings across all parameters required to build and scale our business. We have also been able to involve some of our team members in these programs, which we believe will expedite our path to execution. Grateful to also be part of a community of founders who are looking for similar outcomes for their startups, acting as peer mentors through the process. Lastly, we are very excited on the initiatives we are partnering with Visa on, some of which we have started executing on even during the accelerator program.”

The Sub-Saharan Africa startups shortlisted for the second cohort of the Visa Fintech Accelerator program for Africa are:

East Africa

  • Chapa – Ethiopia – Merchant Solutions
  • CheckUps Medical Hub – Kenya – Embedded Finance (Health)
  • AzamPay – Tanzania – B2B Marketplace
  • Beem – Tanzania – Social Commerce

Western & Central Africa

  • Bizao – Ivory Coast – Merchant Payments Solution
  • Hub2 – Ivory Coast – Enabler Infrastructure
  • Iwomi Technologies – Cameroon – Money Movement
  • Proboutik – Cameroon – Merchant Payments Solution
  • Vaultpay – Democratic Republic of Congo – Merchant Payments Solution
  • Aku – Nigeria – Neo-banking
  • Cleva – Nigeria – Money Movement
  • Curacel – Nigeria – Insurance Management
  • E-doc Online – Nigeria – Open Banking
  • Raenest – Nigeria – Money Movement
  • Bridgecard – Nigeria – Enabler Infrastructure

Southern Africa

  • Ordev – South Africa – Merchant Value Add Solutions
  • Truzo – South Africa – Escrow Services
  • Lupiya – Zambia – Neo-banking

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year.

Its mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

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