📸 NumerisMedia/ Anne Agbakoba
Visa has announced the startups shortlisted from across Africa to participate in the second cohort of its Africa Fintech Accelerator program.
The Sub-Saharan African startups shortlisted for the second cohort of the Visa Fintech Accelerator program for Africa are:
Chapa (Ethiopia)
CheckUps Medical Hub (Kenya)
AzamPay (Tanzania)
Beem (Tanzania)
Bizao | Payment hub in Africa (Ivory Coast)
HUB2 (Ivory Coast)
IWOMI TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Cameroun)
PROBOUTIK (Cameroun)
VaultPay (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Aku (Nigeria)
Cleva (YC W24) (Nigeria)
Curacel (YC 22) (Nigeria)
E-Doc Online (Nigeria)
Raenest (Nigeria)
Bridgecard (YC S22) (Nigeria) and
Truzo™ (South Africa)
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.
The Visa accelerator program offers 12 weeks of 1:1 mentorship and personalised training, providing seed to series A startups with exclusive opportunities to access funding, development, and resources.