Waza

Winter 2023 · Active

B2B payments platform for emerging markets.

Location: Lagos, Nigeria, NG

Founded: 2022

Team size: 28

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About

Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.

Founders

Maxwell ObiFounder
Maxwell is a 2x founder and experienced FinTech entrepreneur. Before Waza, he served as the Global Head of Business at Sendwave (W12) - which got acquired by Worldremit for $500M. While there he navigated partnerships and regulatory relationships in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder of Amplify, a Nigeria-based FinTech which got acquired by Carbon in 2019. Maxwell has a background in Software Engineering and holds a Degree in Computer Science.
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Emmanuel IgboduduFounder
Emmanuel is a software engineer with strong experience building financial technology products. Betore Waza, he was a senior engineer at Revolut in London helping to build the vaults product. Prior to Revolut he had held leading roles at Fairmoney, Carbon and TeamApt (now Moneypoint)
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