Waza

B2B payments platform for emerging markets.

Y CombinatorWinter 2023ActiveFintechPaymentsFintechPaymentsB2BEmerging Markets

What they do

Problem

Businesses in emerging markets without access to USD struggle to make global payments and manage treasury and liquidity for international trade.

Solution

Waza provides a B2B payments platform that enables affordable global payments along with treasury and liquidity management for emerging market trade.

Who it's for

Businesses in emerging markets engaged in international trade and needing to fulfill global payment obligations.

Founders

Maxwell Obi

Founder

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.

Emmanuel Igbodudu

Founder

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)