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Flutterwave

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Angela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in

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Y Combinator
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At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Angela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in

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Flutterwave is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Companies similar to Flutterwave

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Verto

match 86

Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies. By connecting Businesses, Liquidity providers, FX Brokers, and Payment Institutions, and banks through our marketplace, companies can choose their foreign exchange rates at the time that suits them, therefo

shared product terms: mission, payment, infrastructure, connect; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, finance and payments; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

HitPay

match 75

HitPay is a full stack payments infrastructure platform designed for growing businesses in APAC. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, HitPay unifies e-commerce, point of sale, and B2B payments into a single platform. The company is regulated in 6 APAC jurisdictions and backed by leading global investors, including Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, and HOF Capital.

shared product terms: payment, infrastructure, global, businesse; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, finance and payments, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

MixRank

match 70

MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawls, Google Play Store, Apple App Store, social media, and dozens of other sources. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Adobe, across industries Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Security.

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: customer, finance, google, other; shared product theme: finance and payments, sales and marketing, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Whirl

match 68

Whirl's proprietary payment terminal allows customers to pay with a fingerprint in just 1 second. It is the fastest and most secure method of payment on the market, offering the security of a chip card with a nearly invisible payment experience. Just a single press to the payment terminal, and payment is complete.

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: payment, secure, experience, customer; shared product theme: finance and payments, sales and marketing, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Topship

match 68

Topship is the easiest way for African businesses to export/import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors and customers. We are building Flexport for Africa. Our goal is to build a Global Distribution System that makes delivery of parcels, cargo and freight easy for African businesses.

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: africa, global, businesse, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Raba

match 42

Building Lease-to-Own Infrastructure for African Businesses

shared extracted concept terms: african; shared product terms: infrastructure, african, businesse; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools