Building the money tool we wished existed.
AfriTrade Pay started because moving money — between countries, currencies, friends and businesses — was bizarrely hard in 2023. So we fixed it. And we made it free.
Treat every user like the only user. Whether you're sending $50 home or running a global payroll, you deserve the same speed, fairness and clarity. That's the AfriTrade Pay bar.
From a frustration to a fintech.
- 2023
Born from a $200 wire fee
Anton sent a freelancer payment to Lagos. The bank charged $200 in fees and four days. We knew it could be 0 and 30 seconds.
- 2024
Seed round + first wallet
Closed a $12M seed led by Sequoia. Shipped multi-currency wallets to our first 5,000 users in 60 countries.
- 2025
Cards, AI and the developer API
Virtual cards, the AI assistant and a public REST API — all in one year. 400k users by December.
- 2026
1.2M+ users, and forever free
We made the call: AfriTrade Pay will always have a free tier with everything individuals need. No paywall on the basics.
What we hold ourselves to.
Clarity over cleverness
We say what we mean. No fine print. No dark patterns. Receipts that read like a receipt.
Speed is a feature
Money should move at the pace of the internet, not the post office. We measure latency in seconds, not days.
Trust is earned daily
We re-earn it every transaction with security, transparency and care. Every code review asks: would we be ok if this hit the news?
The humans behind AfriTrade Pay.
A small group of obsessives across Stockholm, Lagos and New York.
Ex-Wise, ex-Stripe. Believes money should be boring.
Ex-Plaid. Wrote the first line of AfriTrade Pay's ledger.
Ex-Linear. Hates dialogs that don't deserve to exist.
Built rails for three African unicorns. Now building ours.
Ex-Revolut. Stops fraud before it starts.
Hires people he wishes he'd worked with sooner.
Investors & press.
Want to build money's future?
We're hiring across engineering, design, ops and risk. Remote-friendly across CET, WAT and ET.
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Whether you sign up, build with us or work with us — there's a place for you here.