Investors from its first Series C round like AfricInvest FIVE and CommerzVentures doubled down while the fintech also received capital from new investors: Vitruvian Partners and AXA Investment Managers. Debt financing came from Stanbic IBTC Bank, a Lagos-based bank, and Symbiotic. Founder and CEO of MFS Africa, Dare Okoudjou, said “The strength of our business model is grounded on building a lasting digital infrastructure that unleashes and simplifies economic activities across the continent through any-to-any interoperability.Our multiple initiatives and solutions are providing access to Africans, at home and in the diaspora. We are building MFS Africa into a safe, sound, scalable and high-impact pan-African payment infrastructure that will facilitate Africa’s rapidly growing commerce, both now and in the future.” The new investment will be utilized to achieve four objectives. First, continue its expansion plans across Africa. It will also help the company further integrate into the global digital payment ecosystem, then expand into Asia and create cross-border payments synergies with Africa via a joint venture with LUN Partners and, finllay, carry out its growth plans for BAXI, a startup it acquired late last year. Founded in 2010,the fintech company develops value-added services for mobile wallets and provides alternatives for remittance and money transfers, micro-lending, micro-insurance, micro-savings, and payments. The company connects mobile money systems to each other and to money transfer organizations, banks, and other financial institutions, enabling money remittances to and from mobile money accounts. The fintech has hired Meghan Taylor, an ex-partner at Boston Consulting Group, who is now its chief of staff, and Julian Adkins, ex-Africa CFO at telecom operator Millicom, who operates as the company’s group chief financial officer with a bid to chart its next growth phase
