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Exploring the rumour and benefits of a potential Moniepoint acquisition of Payday

Moniepoint may acquire Payday last valued at $20 million. If the acquisition goes through, both parties could benefit from leveraging each other's infrastructure. Here is our analysis.

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Payday raises $3 million Seed funding to drive product expansion

Payday, with over 330,000 users and 40,000 daily transactions, has raised a $3 million Seed round led by Moniepoint Inc., a later-stage financial services holding company.

What you need to know about Nigeria’s $618M iDICE fund to invest in startups

The Nigerian government in collaboration with local and international partners have launched a $618 million fund to invest in the country's digital and creative industries.

Starlink’s website recommends Payday for payments from Nigeria. So I tried it out.

I used my virtual dollar Mastercard from Payday to order for Starlink to Nigeria and the transaction was smooth.

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An objective analysis of seven payment gateways in Nigeria

We compared seven payment gateways using five metrics to determine the best. The seven payment gateways are Interswitch Webpay, Paystack, Flutterwave, Remita, Seerbit, Fincra and Monnify.

National IDs are important for KYC, but frequent downtimes hinder their reliability, reports Smile Identity

Smile Identity, a leading digital KYC provider in Africa, was founded in 2017 by Mark Straub (CEO) and William Bares. Leveraging anonymised data from nearly 50 million KYC checks, the company has put together its second report on the state of KYC in Africa.

BD Funding Tracker 2023

Filter through our curated list of African startup deals since the start of the year 2023.

TeamApt’s evolution from a tech provider to a startup doing over $14 billion TPV in a month

In this article, I examine TeamApt's evolution and draw parallels for how tech companies and startups typically operate.

BD Insider, Letter 145: USSD in Nigeria, M-Pesa in Kenya, who should pay?

Read our analysis on the Safaricom lawsuit by a Kenyan on M-Pesa charges, alongside our report on Ethiopia's internet shutdown woes and MTN Ghana's $773 million tax fine.

Soyombo’s Voltron Africa invested in one startup every week of 2022. Here is our analysis

Could Olumide Soyombo's Voltron Africa have been the most prolific local VC firm on the continent for 2022? Here is a list and an analysis of all the 53 startups that Voltron invested in.