Sponsors

Lead Fintech Sponsor

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $2 billion in payments and 25 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates.

Platinum Sponsor

TeamApt is digitizing Africa’s economy by building financial platforms for businesses; providing them with all the payment, banking, credit and business management tools they need to succeed. We have Nigeria’s largest payments distribution network, with over 300,000 businesses onboarded on our platforms – Moniepoint and Monnify, processing north of $7bn monthly.

Gold Sponsor

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (‘ETI’) is the parent company of the Ecobank Group, the leading independent pan-African banking group. The Ecobank Group employs over 14,000 people and serves about 20 million customers in the consumer, commercial and corporate banking sectors across 33 African countries. The Group offers a full suite of banking products, services and solutions including bank and deposit accounts, loans, cash management, advisory, trade, securities, wealth and asset management.

Silver Sponsor

Alerzo Limited is the leading business-to-business e-commerce platform in Nigeria. Our mission is to leverage technology to empower retailers in the informal sector, so they are equipped to run profitable & sustainable businesses.

Silver Sponsor

Established in 2014 as Nigeria’s first licensed private commodities exchange, AFEX’s infrastructure and platforms drive capital to build a trust economy in Africa’s commodity markets. We provide solutions in trading, financing and market system development.

Collaborating Sponsor

Yellow Card Financial is the fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchange on the African continent.  The company, founded by Chris Maurice and Justin Poiroux, launched in Nigeria in 2019. Since then, the U.S. and Africa-based team has sought to make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT Stablecoins accessible to anyone in Africa. Yellow Card has the largest geographical footprint on the continent, with a presence in 16 countries and growing. In 2022, Yellow Card announced its Series B fundraise of $40M Series, bringing their total raised to $57M—the most by any African cryptocurrency company.

Collaborating Sponsor

Banks, digital banks and fintechs, around the world, trust us to issue and process all forms of cards and transactions, at scale, through our unrivalled Cloud-based Platform, rich data, unequalled global footprint, and 24 years’ experience.

Collaborating Sponsor

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s legacy closely traces the birth and evolution of Silicon Valley. For more than six decades, Wilson Sonsini has represented the technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation. Today, the firm is synonymous with ushering promising, innovative companies through their business life cycle.

Happy Hour Sponsor

Our vision is to be the leader for exceptional client service and this means a laser focus on quality in all of BDO’s 1,658 offices in 167 countries and territories, in order to ensure the consistent delivery of exceptional service worldwide. For us, exceptional client service is based on five key components that define BDO today: client needs, communication, commitment, people and value.

Women in Fintech Happy Hour Sponsor

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

Ecosystem Tour Sponsor

Paystack builds technology to help Africa’s best businesses grow – from new startups, to market leaders launching new business models.

We make it easy for businesses to accept secure payments from multiple local and global payment channels, and then we provide tools to help you retain existing customers, and acquire new ones.

Curated Exhibition Sponsor

Cellulant is a leading Pan African payments company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional and local merchants.

Cellulant provides a single digital payments platform – named Tingg- addressing the complex payments needs of businesses. Tingg makes it easy to collect and make payments across multiple payment methods in different currencies, with the best customer experience for any business looking to digitise their payments.

Workshop Sponsor

OurPass is Africa’s fastest one-click checkout for digital commerce. We empower businesses by transforming the online shopping experience. We’re on a mission to solve for faster and seamless payments in the African digital marketplace.

Workshop Sponsor

TalentintheCloud launched in 2016 with the vision of helping founders and investors to build scalable FinTechs across Emerging Markets.

Our deep market expertise and the talent we have hired for our customers have significantly contributed to generating over $600m in funding, created over 20 multi-millionaires, helped FinTechs expand across 30 countries, and gave women a true voice in the sector.

Refreshments Sponsor

Chipper Cash is a venture-capital-backed Financial technology company that builds software to enable free and instant Peer-to-peer Cross-border payments in Africa and Europe; as well as solutions for businesses and merchants to process online and in-store payments.

Refreshments Sponsor

Fonbnk is a new distributed finance company enabling a frictionless, financial onramp for emerging markets. Leveraging the existing network of mobile phone accounts, anyone with a prepaid mobile SIM card can now have access to the global digital economy. We are driving financial inclusion through digital access for the nearly 2-billion humans who are unbanked.

Exhibit Sponsor

DPO Group allows you to get paid by shoppers worldwide, in any currency of their choice. Let your shoppers choose from multiple payment methods, growth-focused products, and intelligent payment features designed to help you grow. Get paid online with peace of mind knowing that our ultra-modern fraud protection engines monitor your payments around the clock.

Exhibit Sponsor

Today, we are developing tools and software that will revolutionise the way millions of Africans prove and authenticate their identities online. Our artificial intelligence and identity verification tools have been specially designed for African faces and have a 99.8 percent accuracy rate.

Our technology is used by fast growing companies in a wide range of industries across Africa including Chipper Cash, Paga, Paystack, Twiga, Opay and many more.

Exhibit Sponsor

Fivewest OTC Desk (PTY) Ltd. is an authorised Financial Service Provider (FSP no. 51619) as well as a registered accountable institution with the FIC and holds a mandate from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to facilitate international payments. We currently facilitate international payments on behalf of our clients as well as hedging capabilities for Forex positions that arise from business operations involving foreign markets.

Exhibit Sponsor

Launch your remittance, business payment, US-Domestic peer-to-peer Payment, global bill payment application with our single banking as a service API.

Core Banking Infrastructure Sponsor

We help you deliver a complete banking system that enables you to speed up your go-to-market and scale your business with absolute flexibility and at lower operational costs.

Build, manage and extend APIs to design better customer experiences with WoodCore. 60+ APIs available for a broad range of banking functionalities.