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    African Fintech Startup Payday Selected for Prestigious Accelerator Programme 

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    By Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi on October 21, 2021 Accelerators, Africa, Entrepreneurship, Financial Services, Fintech, Payments, Startups

    Pan-African Fintech startup Payday which recently secured one million dollars in a pre-seed round from several investors that included LofyInc, Microtraction, Magic Fund, and Ventures Platform is in a bid to build out what they believe will be the “PayPal” for Africa has become the first Rwandan company in history to join the prestigious Techstars Toronto Accelerator programme.

    Techstars is an operational investment company that assists founders and early-stage entrepreneurs scale their vision into a thriving business, beginning with the Demo Day at the end of the programme, where selected startups will be able to pitch to a carefully curated group of investors.

    The three-month accelerator programme’s goal is to provide entrepreneurs with invaluable skills, resources and connections to a large pool of global talent and investors.

    CEO, Favour Ori said:

    “Joining Techstars will be a game-changer for us. This is an opportunity to work with and learn from outstanding mentors, as well as to leverage their experience, skills and network to create a platform where all Africans, regardless of location, can enjoy financial inclusion. Rwanda represents one of the best turnaround stories the world has seen in a generation. The word that best describes the founders and team behind Payday is ‘resilient’.

    Moreover, Payday has engineered a financial product that Africans need across the continent and the recent traction they are seeing makes us believe that this is the start of something massive. “We are thrilled to be able to co-invest with some of the best early-stage fintech and e-commerce investors in Africa,” says Sunil Sharma, Managing Director of Techstars Toronto.

    The inclusion of Payday in the programme represents an endorsement from one of the world’s most reputable investor communities, emphasising the potential of the company’s business model and its commitment to developing innovative payment solutions that will simplify how Africans move money around the world. Techstars has 15 unicorns under its umbrella. Some of the notable ones include: SalesLoft, SendGrid, ZipLine, Chainalysis and DataRobot.

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    Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi has been covering blockchain technology, intelligent technologies, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, telecommunications technology, sustainability, autonomous vehicles, and other topics for Innovation Village since 2017. In the years since, he has published over 4,000 articles — a mix of breaking news, reviews, helpful how-tos, industry analysis, and more. | Open DM on Twitter @TapiwaMutisi

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