pawaPay
Secure mobile money payments across Africa
- 101-200 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- SaaS
- Westminster, London, UK
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Company mission
To connect every mobile money wallet in Africa to each other and to the world.
Our take
Outside of Nigeria and South Africa, using mobile money is the easiest and most common way for people in African countries to send and receive money. But because mobile money systems are run by different telecom companies, they sometimes don't work well together, making it not only hard, but expensive for businesses to handle payments across multiple countries.
pawaPay is a UK-based company fixing this problem by building one simple system that connects all these different mobile money networks. So, instead of dealing with several telecom companies separately, businesses can use pawaPay's API to make payments easily across countries. The company handles the difficult parts, like working with local operations, and is already active in places like Kenya, Ghana, and Uganda.
Recently, it raised significant funding too, so it's ready to help grow its team and expand into even more African countries. Operating in 18 markets and processing over 10M transactions every week, pawaPay has set its sights on a major milestone: 1B total transactions. Its success shows just how big the need for better mobile money tools across Africa is and how much potential still exists in a market that other companies often ignore.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Working from home: Or from wherever suits you best whilst aligning to European and African core working hours
- Taking time off: 35 days of annual leave (inclusive of public holidays), paid parental and medical leave for everyone + other leave opportunities
- Team budgets: To ensure your training & development needs are met and everyone has the chance to bond with the team
- Staying healthy: To ensure your training & development needs are met and everyone has the chance to bond with the team
- Team events: Take some time off to play and mingle via virtual team events and on site activities
- Working equipment: We ensure your remote office is set up with top-notch equipment and the best tools out there. Yes, even Chat GPT-4 and Copilot are considered work tools here
- Employee referral bonuses: Because we believe our people are great and contributing to building our success should be rewarded
Company values
- Autonomy & Responsibility
- Transparency
- Reflection
Leadership
Nikolai Barnwell
(CEO)Nikolai joined pawaPay in 2020 as CEO. Prior to this, they spent 4 years at 88mph.ac as a Program Manager.