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Payhippo

Payhippo provides loans to small businesses in Africa in under 3 hours. We made $42k in revenue in Nigeria in July 2021, growing 25% m/m with a 97% repayment rate.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #1940

Payhippo provides loans to small businesses in Africa in under 3 hours. We made $42k in revenue in Nigeria in July 2021, growing 25% m/m with a 97% repayment rate.

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High Signal interpretation

Payhippo is classified as Fintech 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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small businessessmall businesses
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Payhippo

Fintech · 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.

Vittas

match 55

Vittas is an Africa-based company that provides loans to small and medium-sized businesses.

shared extracted concept terms: small, businesse; shared product terms: loan, small, businesse, africa; same category: Fintech

nobuk.africa

match 52

nobuk is a mobile-first SaaS product that enables the consolidation of financial and business records for micro and small businesses. Nobuk offers an automated transaction tracking and customer engagement solution.

shared extracted concept terms: small, businesse; shared product terms: small, businesse, africa; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: Fintech

Numida

match 51

Numida provides working capital loans to African micro businesses. Instead of borrowing from informal lenders or family, micro business owners download the Numida app, apply in minutes, and receive capital within a day. We have figured out how to score and disburse unsecured loans to cash-based businesses that have no digital transaction history, while maintaining excellent collection rates. Since 2021 we have provided $23M in working capital to 32,000 businesses in East Africa.

shared extracted concept terms: businesse; shared product terms: loan, businesse, rate, 2021; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Schoolable

match 36

We are a financial technology company that is revolutionizing the state of pre-tertiary education in Africa. By paying school fees for parents upfront with a flexible monthly repayment plan, building fees savings culture among parents, This way, schools get up to 80% of all their expected fees 2weeks into resumption and also enabling schools to access to loan facility and availability of various vendors and service providers at discounted rates.

shared product terms: africa, repayment, loan, rate; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Goodly

match 20

Student loan repayment as an employee benefit.

shared product terms: loan, repayment; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Value Buddy

match 16

Value Buddy is an AI-powered underwriting valuation platform for loan underwriters that slashes soaring underwriting fees and acquisition loan default rates.

shared product terms: loan, rate