NALA

NALA

Financial Services

Building Payments for the Next Billion. #TheNextBillion

About us

Building Payments for the Next Billion. Y-Combinator (W'19)

Industry
Financial Services
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2017
Specialties
Financial Inclusion, Digital Financial Services, Mobile Money, and Fintech

Locations

Employees at NALA

Updates

  • View organization page for NALA, graphic

    26,465 followers

    We are thrilled to share that NALA has raised $40M in our Series A fundraise! 📢 A huge thank you to our customers, team and supportive partners 🚀 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dgf-TAav #TheNextBillion #1PercentBuilt

    View profile for Benjamin Fernandes, graphic

    Founder & CEO - NALA | Y-Combinator '19 | Stanford MBA | Harvard Kennedy School of Government

    Today, I'm excited to announce we have raised $40m Series A It's been an incredible journey so far, we are just getting started, give us a couple of years, we've got some big plans. Techcrunch: https://lnkd.in/dkE2WvvM I'm super proud of our team: 34x growth in 20 months, 10x revenue growth in the past 10 months and profitable. I'm grateful for Nicolas Esteves and Nicolai Eddy who I have had the privilege of building NALA with the past 4 years, they have put their life into building this company with me with countless late nights, weekends constantly trying to execute on our bold mission to build payments for the next billion! NALA x RAFIKI #1PercentBuilt.

  • View organization page for NALA, graphic

    26,465 followers

    Tell a friend to tell a friend 🚀 #TheNextBilion #1PercentBuilt

    View profile for Penda F., graphic

    Senior Talent Partner @ NALA | Fintech & Payments | Join Our Team! 🚀 | Series A Growth Journey

    🚀 Exciting times at NALA! As we continue to grow, we have several open positions If you or someone you know is looking for new opportunities, let's connect! Contact me before I contact you ;D 🔍 Current Openings (London and EU Remote): - FX Traders: Seeking candidates with a strong background in emerging markets. - Senior Product Managers: Looking for expertise in payments and/or fintech. - Technical Account Manager: Experience in supporting sales through pre-and post-sales activities, solid understanding of APIs is essential. - FP&A Manager: A key role focused on forecasting, budgeting, and revenue modeling, especially after our recent Series A funding round. If you're interested or know someone who might be, please reach out to me directly. #NALA #Fintech

  • View organization page for NALA, graphic

    26,465 followers

    Payments in Africa are #1PercentBuilt

    View profile for Benjamin Fernandes, graphic

    Founder & CEO - NALA | Y-Combinator '19 | Stanford MBA | Harvard Kennedy School of Government

    Every single day, I wake up to a mobile money service, a bank or a payment aggregator that is down. Mostly due to: - human error - operationally - too many people involved causing multiple single points of failure vs. letting software automate. - treasury mismanagement - big one. - technology not built to scale or updated efficiently. Ie name validation checks, account balance checks, etc.. (about 11 key issues) This is why we started building RAFIKI. We see this problem at scale and it doesn’t help global business and money movement to happen efficiently with Africa. I’m excited because though building Rafiki has been challenging, we have some of the best payout reliability and treasury management in Africa. Our customers have switched over and the difference is very clear. We just signed some of the biggest cross border payments businesses on Rafiki. I’ll be with our team at Money2020 next week in Vegas. Come to our Rafiki by NALA booth if you are around! I’d love to say hi 👋

  • View organization page for NALA, graphic

    26,465 followers

    Watch this space 🚀 #1PercentBuilt #TheNextBillion

    View profile for Benjamin Fernandes, graphic

    Founder & CEO - NALA | Y-Combinator '19 | Stanford MBA | Harvard Kennedy School of Government

    Excited to announce NALA is listed in the Fintech 100 by CB Insights, recognizing the world’s top private fintech companies! 🔥 The next list I want to be on is fintech companies by revenue based on capital efficiency - dollars spent per revenue generated 😃 #Fintech100 #1PercentBuilt

    • No alternative text description for this image
  • NALA reposted this

    View organization page for RAFIKI, graphic

    1,515 followers

    They say a picture paints a thousand words... This one shows the global adoption of real-time payments, and we think it speaks volumes The majority of the globe have live real-time payments but vast areas have not - the largest being Africa. This is mainly due to a lack of payments infrastructure And international payments will continue to disappoint individuals and businesses unless this infrastructure is improved. That's where Rafiki comes in. #Payments #InternationalPayments #Rails Image from GlobalData Plc and ACI Worldwide's Report, It's Prime Time for Real Time 2024

    • No alternative text description for this image
  • View organization page for NALA, graphic

    26,465 followers

    View profile for Benjamin Fernandes, graphic

    Founder & CEO - NALA | Y-Combinator '19 | Stanford MBA | Harvard Kennedy School of Government

    Doubled our biz from Q1'24 to Q3'24 🔥🚀 But we're just getting started. Our goals are far beyond this, and we're pushing harder every day to build payments for the Next Billion! Asia coming live this quarter! 👀 Watch where we are in a couple of years—it’ll be worth it, I promise. #TheNextBillion #1PercentBuilt

    • No alternative text description for this image

Affiliated pages

Similar pages

Browse jobs

Funding

NALA 5 total rounds

Last Round

Series A

US$ 40.0M

See more info on crunchbase