Bridgecard

Card issuer for Africa

Y CombinatorSummer 2022InactiveFintechPaymentsBanking as a ServiceFintechPaymentsB2B

What they do

Problem

African fintechs face slow, complex, and unreliable processes to launch payment cards that work globally.

Solution

Bridgecard provides easy-to-integrate APIs to issue and manage virtual and physical Visa/Mastercard cards with high uptime and support.

Who it's for

Fintech startups and financial services companies in Africa that need to issue cards to their users.

Founders

Tunde Adewole

Founder

Building Awaithumans, the infrastructure that lets AI agents hand off tasks to humans or other agents with a single function call. 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.

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Festus Owumi

Founder

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.