Flutterwave Creates Grants for Female SMEs in Nigeria and other Countries.
Flutterwave, a Nigerian founded company recently publicized a grant specifically created for female SMEs to celebrate international women’s day. The grant would be awarded to qualified women in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa.
The grant is open to individuals from 21 years old and upwards in the named countries. Flutterwave will select one business from each country to receive a grant of $1000. Applications end on the 23rd of March 2020 and winners will be announced thereafter.
Flutterwave was founded in 2016 by Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, co-founder Olugbenga Agboola, and a team of African payments, technology, and banking veterans from Standard Bank, Google Wallet, Andela, and PayPal, amongst others.
Flutterwave is a platform that uses digital payments infrastructure to assists banks and businesses to build seamless and secure payments for their customers. Its mission is to inspire a new wave of prosperity across Africa by building a payments infrastructure that will connect Africa to the global economy.
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Since its inception in 2016, Flutterwave has processed over $2.5 billion in payments, over 100 million transactions and has partnered with 50 African banks with over 1200 developers that build on the platform.
In 2017, Flutterwave extended its services by introducing a payment product called Rave. Rave opens businesses to more opportunities by allowing them to accept a range of payment methods from customers around the world.
In 2019, Flutterwave partnered with Visa to launch a consumer payment product called GetBarter. The product is aimed at facilitating personal and small payments within countries and across African borders. GetBarter allows Flutterwave, which has scaled as a payment option for big companies through its Rave product to pivot to African consumers and traders.
Flutterwave serves some of the popular payment service providers in Nigeria including Paywithcapture, Paystack, AmplifyPay and many more. It works with Access Bank, Uber and Page Microfinance. Some of the payment methods it supports include Visa, MasterCard, ApplePay, Verve, American Express, Android Pay and others.
Please contact www.flutterwave.com for more details on the grant.