Fintech

PiggyVest turned the very Nigerian habit of contributing small, disciplined amounts of money into a digital product millions of young people now use by default.

When Stripe acquired Paystack in 2020 for a reported 200 million dollars, it became the clearest signal yet that global tech was watching Nigerian engineering closely. This is what happened.

Flutterwave built the payment rails that let businesses across Africa accept and send money across borders and currencies. Here is the story of how it got there.