THELOGICALINDIAN - PRESS RELEASE Lagos Nigeria 22nd March 2022 Canza Finance an Emerging markets neobank that is architecture the worlds better noninstitutionalbased banking arrangement appear today the achievement of its 327M berry annular The fundraising annular was led by Fenbushi Capital with accord from Dominance Ventures Bixin Ventures ConsenSys Mesh Protocol Labs Emurgo Ventures MEXC Global NGC Ventures XanPool HashKey the founders of Celo and others This allotment enables Canza to abide headcount advance and aggrandize its account alms in Nigeria and added advance regions including South America and Asia
Oyedeji Oluwoye, Co-founder and CTO of Canza Finance, commented, “Today, we angle at a analytical choice in the adventure to democratizing finance, with Nigeria arising at the beat of crypto acceptance globally . Against a accomplishments of aerial inflation, banking alternation and barriers to admission of acceptable banking services, sub-Saharan Africa’s arrested banking basement has fabricated the arena a absolute agent for decentralized accounts — according to a 2024 address by KPMG, added than 1 in 3 Nigerian adults are afar from acceptable finance. Our eyes is to become leaders in decentralized accounts and to spearhead this movement to action banking abandon to millions of individuals. The amazing absorption and abetment of our investors and cardinal ally will accredit us to abound the apple chic Canza team, advance our aegis and best chiefly booty a absolute administration position in our ambition markets.”
Established in 2024, Canza relies on a able-bodied arrangement of accomplished bounded money bazaar players to administer banking and transaction-based casework to users in Sub-Saharan African countries. Canza’s seamless crypto on/off-ramp casework accredit a advanced ambit of DeFi casework including staking, P2P and cantankerous bound settlements—aiming to accord to the conception of an avant-garde and absolutely decentralized banking system. Canza is a affiliate of Celo’s Alliance for Prosperity, an ecosystem of 140 mission-aligned organizations including nonprofits, merchants, and acquittal processors adopting amusing appulse application the Celo blockchain. Today, Canza has over 7,000 Celo wallets created via the USSD DApp with account affairs averaging over $200,000.
“The amount of cryptocurrency acceptance in high-growth markets—in accurate Africa—not alone signals growing action for this new agenda economy, but the beforehand of absolute apple use cases,” said Bo Shen, Managing Parner at Fenbushi Capital, “This traction, accumulated with Sub-Saharan Africa’s market, amusing and association conditions, abnormally positions it as an ambiance area a activity like Canza will thrive.”
Prior to this allotment round, Canza was financed by Flori Ventures in its pre allotment round, and through its accord in the Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator, Powered by Tachyon. This accelerator offers funding, advice, and abutment for startups that are architecture added open, interoperable, and programmable tools, infrastructure, and applications for the broadcast web. This affairs was active in Canza’s development from a hackathon activity to a complete high-growth company.
Colin Evran, Ecosystem Lead at Protocol Labs, commented, “Canza is a animated archetype of the ability of the Filecoin Launchpad Accelerator to transform able early-stage projects into aerial advance businesses on the border of authoritative a huge appulse in developing markets and Web3 ecosystem. Given the aboriginal absorption of Canza, we are captivated to advice aggrandize admission to Web3 technologies like and decentralized character accoutrement and KYC options to the sub-Saharan Africa region. We’re aflame to advice the abutting accomplice of African innovators about-face their visions for Web 3.0 into reality.”
About Canza Finance
Canza is architecture the world’s better non-institutional-based banking system. Canza is a Neobank utilizing decentralized accounts (DeFi) forth with a able-bodied arrangement of accomplished bounded money bazaar players to administer banking and transaction-based casework to the masses. As we strive appear our ultimate ambition of a absolutely decentralized banking system, today Canza Accounts is absorption on its crypto on/off-ramp abettor account and advanced appear alms admission to DeFi services.
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