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Card issuer for Africa
Bridgecard makes it easy for fintechs to issue MasterCard or Visa cards that work anywhere in the world. We provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in weeks instead of months. For nearly three years, we’ve supported Africa’s top startups with stable, high-growth card solutions. Thanks to our stability, over 50% of our clients have grown their volumes by more than 5X within 6 months. Our commitment is to deliver great cards that work, provide reliable support, and unbeatable uptime so that your users can be satisfied.
Bridgecard positions itself as a card issuer for Africa, enabling the issuance of physical or virtual cards with MasterCard or Visa branding via card issuing APIs. The service emphasizes quick onboarding, suggesting a setup time of about a week.
Provides card issuing APIs to issue physical or virtual cards that carry MasterCard or Visa logos. Enables integration to issue cards to users, with a quick start onboarding (about one week).
Who it’s for: Businesses seeking to issue cards in Africa, including fintechs and other platforms that require physical or virtual card programs for their users.
I’m building ScaleBrick, a workspace where AI agents own marketing end-to-end: they research demand, run campaigns and experiments, measure results, and continuously optimize for outcomes like signups, revenue, and retention. I previously scaled Bridgecard (YC S22) to over $1M ARR before exiting. I love machine learning, recently trained an embedding model (SearchMap Preview) to outrank Gemini on the MTEB leaderboard with 5k+ downloads on Hugging Face.
Festus is a Senior Software Engineer with experiences ranging from Mobile, Machine Learning and Backend Development. He has 5 years experience with companies offering financial services in Africa including TradeDepot, Kippa e.t.c.
Meet Bridgecard, we help fintech companies issue cards in Africa.
Bridgecard provides APIs for fintechs to issue MasterCard/Visa cards (virtual and physical) that work globally, targeting Africa. The launch introduces the service, highlights enabling African fintechs to issue cards locally for international transactions, with a 5-day setup goal and an invitation to collaborate.
From the original launch (Aug 2022) — may be outdated.
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