Card issuer for Africa
Bridgecard makes it easy for fintechs to issue MasterCard or Visa cards that work anywhere in the world. We provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in weeks instead of months. For nearly three years, we’ve supported Africa’s top startups with stable, high-growth card solutions. Thanks to our stability, over 50% of our clients have grown their volumes by more than 5X within 6 months. Our commitment is to deliver great cards that work, provide reliable support, and unbeatable uptime so that your users can be satisfied.
Active Founders
Tunde Adewole, Founder
Previously I built open banking APIs connecting large banks to fintech in Nigeria. I turned down a job at google to build Bridgecard.
Festus Owumi, Founder
Festus is a Senior Software Engineer with experiences ranging from Mobile, Machine Learning and Backend Development. He has 5 years experience with companies offering financial services in Africa including TradeDepot, Kippa e.t.c.
Company Launches
Hello 👋, we are Tunde and Festus, the founders of Bridgecard.
The problem 😓:
Data has become affordable in most parts of Africa, for example, the price of mobile data has dropped by over 75% in Nigeria over the past 5 years.
Local people have started consuming global services like Netflix, AWS, AliExpress, Udemy, etc. but don’t have a card to pay for these services. Local banks in Africa haven’t been able to support international transactions on the local currency cards.
I traveled to the US for the first time 2 months ago and almost got stranded at the airport because I found out that Uber in SanFrancisco does not accept cash and my local bank card didn’t work. I was able to hack together a card, add it to the app, and Uber down to my location.
Our Solution 💳:
Bridgecard makes it easy for any fintech company to issue their customers a card that will carry a MasterCard or Visa logo and work anywhere in the world.
We provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in 5 days or less.
My co-founder and I got into YC to build something different but our previous card issuer stopped supporting over 20 other companies and us in Nigeria alone so we couldn’t keep our product in the market.
We woke up one morning and decided to be the card issuer ourselves.
Ask 🤝:
If you’re building a fintech product and you need to issue cards in Africa, check out Bridgecard or send me a mail at tunde@bridgecard.co.
We’ll be glad to work with you.