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Flutterwave and African payments
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- 0:00Getting paid across Africa used to be
- 0:01slow, expensive, and complicated.
- 0:04[music] A Nigerian engineer built one
- 0:06system to connect it. Olugbenga Agboola,
- 0:09known as GB, had spent years building
- 0:12technology for banks.
- 0:13>> [music]
- 0:13>> In 2016, he co-founded Flutterwave with
- 0:17Iyinoluwa Aboyeji. The idea was simple.
- 0:20One way for any business to accept
- 0:22payments across African countries and
- 0:24from the rest of the world. Cards, bank
- 0:26[music] transfers, mobile money.
- 0:29Businesses plug in from Lagos to Nairobi
- 0:31to Johannesburg. In 2021, Flutterwave
- 0:35became a unicorn. [music]
- 0:36In February 2022, it raised $250 million
- 0:41>> [music]
- 0:41>> at a valuation of over 3 billion. Today,
- 0:44it works in more than 30 African
- 0:46countries and over 30 currencies.
- 0:49>> [music]
- 0:49>> Africa's money on one rail.
- 0:52>> Follow Viber economies for more.
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