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Mobile money payments API for Africa
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Mobile money payments API for Africa
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify business for companies and consumers in Africa by ensuring that payments simply work, at scale, despite fragmentation and complexity that exists on the Continent.
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Company mission
To simplify business for companies and consumers in Africa by ensuring that payments simply work, at scale, despite fragmentation and complexity that exists on the Continent.
Our take
Outside of Nigeria and South Africa, using mobile money is one of 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 companies, they often don't work well together, making it difficult and expensive for businesses to handle payments across multiple countries.
pawaPay is 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 across countries. The company handles the difficult parts, like working with local operations, so that its users can operate with ease.
The company has raised significant funding as it prepares to grow its team and expand into more countries. Operating in 18 markets already, and processing over 10 million transactions every week, pawaPay's success is evident. In 2024, it surpassed 1 billion total transactions, and there's still vast potential for expansion in this market that other companies often ignore.
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Benefits
- Salary benchmarking
- Working from home
- Annual leave (35 days), parental & medical leave
- Team budgets for training & development
- Health & wellbeing initiatives and benefits
- Team events & activities (virtual/on site)
- Remote working equipment & tools
- Employee referral bonuses
Company values
- Autonomy & Responsibility
- Transparency
- Reflection
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2021
$9m
SEED
Total funding: $9m
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.