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Pan-African Fintech Bamba secures $3.2M Seed Round

by Idowu Deborah
2022/05/18
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Bamba, a mobile-first enterprise software for micro-merchants in Africa, has secured $3.2m in seed funding to scale its app and build out its team.

Venture capital firm 468 Capital led the round with participation from Presight Ventures, Jigsaw VC, and high profile angels Mato Peric, Leonard Stiegeler, Laurin Hainy and Thomas Stafford.

The company is currently in stealth mode and will use the new capital to build out its mobile product offer, scale its engineering team and expand its user base across 12 sub-Saharan African countries with high mobile money penetration.

Bamba, founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur and investor, Bastian Gotter, is a mobile application focusing on simple tools for merchants to manage their customers, record stocks, receive payments, make payments, and access cash advances against their future cash flow.

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Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises account for 90 percent of all businesses in sub-Saharan Africa and contribute more than half of all jobs.

In 2021, registered and unregistered merchants accepted over $250 billion in mobile money payments, recording rapid growth.

The mixture of receiving/paying out cash or mobile money creates new complexities for merchants; however, it also creates opportunities to digitalize business payment and record-keeping processes further.

This digitalization process has the potential to vastly improve access to credit, one of the most significant hurdles preventing the growth of small businesses in Africa.

The IFC estimates Sub-Saharan Africa’s small business credit gap at $331 billion. Bamba’s mobile application sits at the heart of the digitalization process improving both the payments experience and the access to credit for micro-merchants.

Commenting on the raise, Bastian Gotter, Founder & CEO, Bamba said, “We truly believe entrepreneurship is essential to prosperity, so we make running a small business easier by building mobile-first small business software for Africa.

This investment allows us to scale the platform, the team and gives us access to insights from our high calibre of investment partners.”

Ludwig Ensthaler, Partner, 468 Capital commented: “We are thrilled to invest and support the team and vision at Bamba.

We feel that the investment opportunities in “enterprise” software focused on small businesses in Africa are significant and remain largely untapped.

We believe that Bamba is well placed with a great product and a solid founder to build a category-defining company.”

Fabian Hansen, Investor, Presight Ventures added: “We appreciate entrepreneurs that build novel solutions that push boundaries and are thrilled to support Bamba’s potential impact across the small businesses ecosystem in Africa.”

Dan Jones, Partner, Jigsaw VC commented, “Bamba sits at the intersection between cash and mobile money, between payments and credit. We believe there is a significant opportunity in this space and are keen to explore it with Bastian.”

The IFC estimates the small business credit gap in Sub-Saharan Africa at $331 billion.


Featured Image: Bastian Gotter, Co-founder & CEO, Bamba


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