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#79: Cellulant - How the FinTech payments platform is providing financial services across Africa

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Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Cellulant, the African payments infrastructure company. We’ll explore the story across the following areas

  1. African financial sector context

  2. Cellulant’s early history

  3. Product & monetization strategy

  4. Competitive positioning & potential exit options

  5. Outlook

This episode was recorded on Jan 20, 2025

Companies discussed: Cellulant, Flutterwave, Interswitch, DPO Group (Network International), Paystack, Stripe, Moniepoint, MTN & Airtel.

Business concepts discussed: Payments platforms, payments partnerships strategy, card networks, payments infrastructure, low-end disruption, banking regulation & payments M&A strategy

Conversation highlights:

  • (01:00) - What is Cellulant and why we’re talking about them

  • (07:25) - Context of African Banking Opportunity and Neobanks

  • (15:07) - Cellulant founding and early history

  • (36:16) - Fundraising

  • (41:17) - Growth and Geographical Expansion

  • (58:12) - Product and Monetization Strategy

  • (01:15:12) - Competition and Options for Exit

  • (1:21:26) - Bankole’s overall thoughts and outlook

  • (1:28:18) - Olumide’s overall thoughts and outlook

  • (1:32:45) - Recommendations and small wins

Olumide’s recommendations & small wins:

  • Interested in investing in Africa Tech with Olumide: Read about Adamantium fund & contact me at olumide@afrobility.com. Founders looking for funding: If you're a B2B founder working on Education, Health, Finance or food, please contact me for funding at olumide@afrobility.com

  • Checkout my FIREDOM book = FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) + Freedom = personal finance and financial independence book. Website, Read: Substack Newsletter & Buy: Print, eBook or Audiobook)

  • Recommendation: Titan - Rockefeller's autobiography. Solid and thorough look at the fascinating life of an incredible person. Incredible read.

  • Recommendation: Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential. Personal development book filled with ideas, as it compiles insights from other renowned books.

  • Recommendation: The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Letters from Rochaleller to his son with timeless stories and life principles

  • Recommendation: Google Notebook LM. Game changer for researchers, Incredible resource to research information when you have sources.

  • Small win: Stretching and yoga in the mornings before weight lifting workouts

  • Small win: Went to south pointe picnic with friends

Bankole’s recommendations & small wins:

Listeners: We’d love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback!

Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com

Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com

Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com

  continue reading

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Innehåll tillhandahållet av Olumide Ogunsanwo and Bankole Makanju, Olumide Ogunsanwo, and Bankole Makanju. Allt poddinnehåll inklusive avsnitt, grafik och podcastbeskrivningar laddas upp och tillhandahålls direkt av Olumide Ogunsanwo and Bankole Makanju, Olumide Ogunsanwo, and Bankole Makanju eller deras podcastplattformspartner. Om du tror att någon använder ditt upphovsrättsskyddade verk utan din tillåtelse kan du följa processen som beskrivs här https://sv.player.fm/legal.

Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Cellulant, the African payments infrastructure company. We’ll explore the story across the following areas

  1. African financial sector context

  2. Cellulant’s early history

  3. Product & monetization strategy

  4. Competitive positioning & potential exit options

  5. Outlook

This episode was recorded on Jan 20, 2025

Companies discussed: Cellulant, Flutterwave, Interswitch, DPO Group (Network International), Paystack, Stripe, Moniepoint, MTN & Airtel.

Business concepts discussed: Payments platforms, payments partnerships strategy, card networks, payments infrastructure, low-end disruption, banking regulation & payments M&A strategy

Conversation highlights:

  • (01:00) - What is Cellulant and why we’re talking about them

  • (07:25) - Context of African Banking Opportunity and Neobanks

  • (15:07) - Cellulant founding and early history

  • (36:16) - Fundraising

  • (41:17) - Growth and Geographical Expansion

  • (58:12) - Product and Monetization Strategy

  • (01:15:12) - Competition and Options for Exit

  • (1:21:26) - Bankole’s overall thoughts and outlook

  • (1:28:18) - Olumide’s overall thoughts and outlook

  • (1:32:45) - Recommendations and small wins

Olumide’s recommendations & small wins:

  • Interested in investing in Africa Tech with Olumide: Read about Adamantium fund & contact me at olumide@afrobility.com. Founders looking for funding: If you're a B2B founder working on Education, Health, Finance or food, please contact me for funding at olumide@afrobility.com

  • Checkout my FIREDOM book = FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) + Freedom = personal finance and financial independence book. Website, Read: Substack Newsletter & Buy: Print, eBook or Audiobook)

  • Recommendation: Titan - Rockefeller's autobiography. Solid and thorough look at the fascinating life of an incredible person. Incredible read.

  • Recommendation: Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential. Personal development book filled with ideas, as it compiles insights from other renowned books.

  • Recommendation: The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Letters from Rochaleller to his son with timeless stories and life principles

  • Recommendation: Google Notebook LM. Game changer for researchers, Incredible resource to research information when you have sources.

  • Small win: Stretching and yoga in the mornings before weight lifting workouts

  • Small win: Went to south pointe picnic with friends

Bankole’s recommendations & small wins:

Listeners: We’d love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback!

Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com

Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com

Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com

  continue reading

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