Waza

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B2B payments platform for emerging markets.

Winter 2023Founded 202228 peopleLagos, LA, Nigeria

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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.

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Waza provides a global payments and treasury management platform focused on emerging market businesses, offering multi-currency payments, invoicing, and liquidity management via APIs and a web dashboard. It targets businesses, corporates, and fintechs needing cross-border payment capabilities with local currency support.

Waza enables multi-currency global payments (USD, EUR, GBP) to 100+ countries, with a web dashboard and APIs for payments, invoicing, and treasury management. Features include a multi-currency balance, access to foreign currency, competitive exchange rates with low fees, multiple payment channels (balance payments, debit cards, e-wallets, bank transfers), real-time payment processing, reporting and reconciliation, customizable invoicing, and forthcoming receivables/invoice management and invoice financing (beta). Onboarding is described as frictionless (10-minute start).

Who it’s for: Emerging market businesses, multinational corporates, and fintechs requiring global payments, treasury management, and liquidity optimization.

Features

multi-currency payments (USD, EUR, GBP)
payments via balance, cards, e-wallets, bank transfers
easy-to-use dashboard with reporting and reconciliation
frictionless onboarding in 10 minutes
customizable invoicing
invoice financing (beta)
cross-border payments in over 100 countries

mentions developers and a Careers/Company page; implied traction through API access and enterprise/fintech focus

Founders · 2

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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