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Fintech in Africa Reinvented

Financial Inclusion: Stone’s Story of Eversend

Anass Haijeb
2 min readJul 10, 2020

Eversend is the first neobank for Africans, anywhere in the world.

Founded in 2017, Eversend also provides multi-currency wallets and currency exchange and plans to offer personal loans, savings, group savings, merchant payments, and investments in the future. Available on Android iOS, and the nice part is that you can access your money from reversed without having a smartphone!

The startup has over 40,000 registered users and is growing at around 30 percent month-on-month.

Why I am talking it to you right now, except that is a combination of hot topics such as Africa and Fintech, Eversend concluded an exceptional crowdfunding camping rising almost double what they were aiming.

An article from Forbes report: “They started a crowdfunding campaign because they wanted to raise money from their customers. Eversend exists to bring more Africans into the formal financial market. Their pitch often starts with the fact that 66% of Africans are unbanked. As a fintech-focused on financial inclusion, they gave their customers the opportunity to buy into a…

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Anass Haijeb
Anass Haijeb

Written by Anass Haijeb

Direct To the Point Stories: Startup, Innovation, and Career Dev. Our time is more precious than anything else, so stories are kept short. - @ahaijeb

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