“Can a CEMAC-focused payments infrastructure player become the default bill-payment and agency-banking rail for Central Africa?”
Maviance is a Germany-headquartered (Leipzig) fintech operating across emerging markets, with its flagship Maviance PLC entity positioned as 'Central Africa's #1 Fintech'. The company built a portfolio of payments and digital transformation products — Smobilpay (bill payments/agency banking), Qlipay (migrant worker remittance/bill pay), Smartcash (enterprise payment digitization), Mavisys (e-visa), and Mavimeter (smart utility meter reading) — connected to the BEAC/GIMAC interoperability switch and mobile money operators (MTN MoMo, Orange Money) in the CEMAC region.
Maviance processes payments through Smobilpay (self-operated), Qlipay (self-operated), Smartcash (self-operated), MTN MoMo (mobile money connector), Orange Money (mobile money connector), Nexttel (mobile money connector), Airtel Congo (mobile money connector), Yoomee Money (mobile money connector) and 2 others.
Maviance was founded by Jerry Cheambe and Michael Flach and is headquartered in Leipzig, Germany.
Maviance has raised $3M+ (disclosed) in total (latest round: Seed, 2021).
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