Barely two weeks after one of Nigeria’s fintech, Duplo, concluded its seed funding round with resounding success, another Nigerian fintech startup, NowNow Digital Systems, has raised $13 million in its seed round to improve financial inclusion across Africa by providing financial services to the unbanked and under-banked in the continent.
The digital payment firm’s funding round was led by NeoVision Ventures Ltd., DLF Family Office as Shadi Abdulhadi hinted of NowNow’s plans to scale and expand its service offerings across the continent.
With the newly secured funds, the firm’s management expressed optimism that it would help in driving financial empowerment and introduction of new products, which will further enhance NowNow’s already existing consumer banking, agency banking, and merchant payment solutions.
Speaking on the successful fundraising round, the firm’s CEO & Co-founder, Sahir Berry, enthused: “Today we announce that we have moved to the next stage of our commitment to drive financial access and empowerment for Africans at the last mile.
“With the secured funding, we look to not only provide services that include everyone financially but also upscale our agile ecosystem which ensures that our multidimensional offering remains a market leader.
“The credit facility will also support our unique strategy to advance financial inclusion and independence through financial education. The interest and backing of our investors will enable us to grow our world-class team as we would be unveiling innovative products and services”, the digital payment expert added.
In his remarks, Managing Partner of Capital V Ltd, Gary Peters, said: “One of the key elements that propelled us to invest in NowNow through one of our funds is based on the founders’ tenacity to grow the company to a viable level, as well as overcoming many challenges and market cycles since its inception in 2018.
“Its core business and vision of digitizing the African region through facilitating daily payment services is also another important element. Whenever we meet a company founder like Sahir Berry, whose leadership’s vision aligns with Capital V’s fund of funds strategy to back disruptive and high-potential start-ups, especially in emerging markets like Africa, the decision process becomes easier”, Peters added
By its business philosophy, NowNow is focused on solving financial challenges by creating the largest fintech ecosystem in Africa as well as supporting the financial inclusion goal in the continent. Recently, the fintech platform was selected to participate in the Mastercard Start Path Global programme created to help later-stage startups innovate and scale.
Equipped with a rapidly growing product suite and functionally robust technology platform, NowNow seeks to build the world’s best technology that digitizes cash payments for Africans.
