Flutterwave

YC S16 · Plug and Play · Active · Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa.

Competitors

Companies closest to Flutterwave
Company	Category	Status	Program
PaystackShared: payment infrastructure, accept payment, africaAcquiredOther	Other	Acquired	YCW16
FluxShared: accept payment, payment infrastructure, anywhereActiveOther	Other	Active	YCW21
XenditShared: payment infrastructure, accept payment, payment experienceActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS15
FLIZpayShared: accept paymentNot statedOther	Other	Not stated	Antler2024
MalgaShared: accept payment, transactionActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS21

Adjacent

Companies next to Flutterwave
Company	Category	Status	Program
EpointShared: accept payment, transaction, secureNot statedOther	Other	Not stated	500 Global2023
PAYZEShared: accept payment, helping, countryInactiveOther	Other	Inactive	YCS21
NombaShared: africa, paymentActiveOther	Other	Active	YCW17
PartnaShared: payment infrastructure, africa, globalActiveOther	Other	Active	YCW22
HitPayShared: payment infrastructure, growingActiveOther	Other	Active	YCS21

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Programs

Programs Flutterwave went through
Program	Cohort	Source
Y Combinator	S16 · Summer 2016	YC Page
Plug and Play	Not stated	Plug and Play Page

About 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 the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $20 billion in payments and 100 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

YC batch: S16 · Summer 2016
Status, per YC: Active
Category: Other
Team size: 500
Location: Lagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria
Checked: 31m ago

YC tags: Fintech

Flutterwave in S16: 102 companies, 18% AI

Flutterwave: questions

Which YC batch was Flutterwave in?

Flutterwave was in Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch (S16).

Which accelerators did Flutterwave go through?

Flutterwave is listed by Y Combinator (S16), Plug and Play.

Is Flutterwave still active?

Y Combinator lists Flutterwave as active.

Where is Flutterwave based?

Flutterwave lists Lagos, LA, Nigeria; LA, Nigeria as its location on YC's directory.

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