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DEAL: Kenya-based Churpy set to expand to Nigeria, other countries as it raises $1 million

...says it has $15 million available for disbursement through banking partners

Zainab Iwayemi by Zainab Iwayemi
March 29, 2022
in Corporate deals, Tech News
DEAL: Kenya-based Churpy set to expand to Nigeria, other countries as it raises $1 million
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Kenyan fintech startup, Churpy, has raised $1 million in seed funding to expand across Africa by setting up hubs in Nigeria, Egypt, and South Africa.

The seed round was led by Unicorn Growth Capital and also saw participation from Antler East Africa (following on after a $100,000 pre-seed), Nairobi business angel network and some Rally Cap’s LPs including senior executives from Stripe.

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The startup said it wants to transform how businesses manage the debt owed to them by their customers through its Software as a service (SaaS) product – which automates the labour-intensive processes of reconciling incoming payments and invoices that are still predominantly manual for most local companies.

In addition, the startup said it is set to roll out a working capital financing product targeting small-medium enterprises supplying to the enterprise customers that are signed up to the startup’s SaaS product.

What the co-founder is saying

Speaking on its plan to enter other African countries, Kennedy Mukuna, Churpy co-founder said, “We are hiring more people as we plan to enter Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, which are the hubs into their (respective) regions. We are also putting finances into product development as we plan to scale our offering.” 

On its SME plan, Makuna pointed out that the SMEs benefit from immediate payment for goods delivered to these enterprises, instead of waiting for months to receive their money.

He said, “SMEs have a huge financing gap. They are the suppliers to these big companies and need capital to keep taking raw materials to their other clients. Usually, they need collateral to access loans from banks and wait for approval to access capital to keep their business going. What we are doing is ensuring that they get paid not long after they deliver goods to partner enterprises for a 0.5% origination fee. Once their invoice matures, we get paid,”

Barbara Iyayi, co-Founder and CEO, Unicorn Growth Capital said “It is clear that B2B payment operations are significantly under-penetrated and ripe for modernization and disruption globally. We are excited to partner with the Churpy team as the first mover in the market.

“Churpy is the only available end-to-end platform that provides accounts receivable automation, an invoice marketplace and reconciliation with integrated B2B payments specific to its markets. They are well-positioned to be a critical partner to businesses and lenders in Africa, and can effectively address the significant credit gap faced by SMEs for supplier finance and working capital.”

What you should know

  • Churpy was founded in 2021 by Mukuna together with John Kiptum, at an accelerator program by Antler East Africa.
  • Churpy said it is connected with banks across Africa such as Citibank, Sidian, Stanbic and NCBA through its API, which gives businesses using its SaaS product access to real-time statements and transaction data
  • It also stated that Trade Development Bank has made $15 million available to the startup for onward lending which will be disbursed through its banking partners.

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