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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
African financial sector context
Cellulant’s early history
Product & monetization strategy
Competitive positioning & potential exit options
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:
Recommendation: Podcast: Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution & Video: 20 Mechanical Principles in One Lego Machine
Small win: Early in the year, but working out everyday
Other content: Ken Njoroge's Entrepreneurship Journey: Overcoming Tragedy and Building Success
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
80 episoder
Manage episode 464105499 series 2712808
Overview: Today, we’re going to talk about Cellulant, the African payments infrastructure company. We’ll explore the story across the following areas
African financial sector context
Cellulant’s early history
Product & monetization strategy
Competitive positioning & potential exit options
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:
Recommendation: Podcast: Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution & Video: 20 Mechanical Principles in One Lego Machine
Small win: Early in the year, but working out everyday
Other content: Ken Njoroge's Entrepreneurship Journey: Overcoming Tragedy and Building Success
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
80 episoder
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