Kotani Pay LTD

We enable blockchain fintech companies to integrate seamlessly into African payment channels by using USSD widely used in Africa

  • Stage Product In Market
  • Industry Fintech
  • Location Nairobi, Kenya
  • Currency USD
  • Founded May 2020
  • Employees 6
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website kotanipay.com

Company Summary

Our clients include e-commerce sites, micro-financing platforms, De-Fi applications and Non-Governmental Organizations. We have a B2B business model and we charge 2% fees on the value transacted.

We've processed 177,000 USD. That is about 3000 dollars per day and we look to process about 3M USD by mid-October 2021

We have built APIs that connect blockchain networks at the backend to Unstructured Supplementary Service Data at the frontend

Team

  • Samuel Kariuki
    Community Manager and Customer Sucess

    Key competencies in community management and customer success

    Sam was introduced to blockchain in 2018 while taking part in Blockchain and immersive technology project. With his skills in community management, he was appointed as the Community Manager for Iconnect Global, a blockchain validator on the Icon protocol.

  • Felix Macharia
    CEO

    Key competencies in entrepreneurship, strategy and research

    Felix was an affiliate scholar in the Institute of Blockchain Studies in 2017 researching rent-seeking ERC20 tokens during the "ICO Boom". Felix is a co-trustee of the Africa Digital Asset Foundation (ADAF), a non-profit organization built by African blockchain startups in 2018 to develop protocols, frameworks and standards to enable blockchain adoption on the African continent.

  • Brian Kimotho
    Marketing Lead

    Key competencies in branding, social media, and marketing

    Brian has worked at EOS Nairobi as a volunteer and a community manager. He was part of 1 of 3 teams - Ubuntu Energy Ledger, that participated in the global EOS Hackathon series and later participated in the Grand Finale. He was a community manager and marketing lead at EOS Nairobi

Advisors

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