Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses African tech leaders Fope Adelowo, Ken Njoroge, Tayo Oviosu to speak at Disrupt SF Nigerian digital payments startup Paga is gearing up for an international expansion with $10 million in funding let by the Global Innovation Fund. The company is planning to release its payments product in Ethiopia, Mexico, and the Philippines—CEO Tayo Oviosu told TechCrunch at Disrupt San Francisco. Paga looks to go head to head with regional and global payment players, such as PayPal, Alipay, and Safaricom’s M-Pesa, according to Oviosu. “We are not only in a position to compete with them, we’re going beyond them,” he said of Kenya’s M-Pesa mobile money product.
With A $10 Million Round, Nigeria’s Paga Plans Global Expansion
Jonathan Shieber, TechCrunch
Thu, 09/06/2018 - 6:00am
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