“Can Nigeria's largest consumer savings app extend its trust and rails into a multi-product financial super-app spanning consumer savings, social-commerce payments, and SMB banking?”
PiggyVest began in 2016 as Piggybank.ng, a single-product automated savings app for low- and middle-income Nigerians. In 2019 it pivoted into a savings + investment app, broadening into mutual funds, fixed-income and dollar-denominated savings. More recently it has fanned out into adjacent embedded-finance verticals: Pocket by PiggyVest (social commerce payments + insurance via Curacel) and PiggyVest Business (SMB wallets, virtual accounts, scheduled payments, APIs). The company now operates as a consumer financial super-app and a quietly emerging BaaS-like platform for Nigerian SMBs.
PiggyVest discloses Piggytech Global Limited / acquired microfinance bank (in-house) as its banking provider, according to the Embedded Finance Index 2026.
PiggyVest does not disclose a bank charter of its own; its banking services are provided through Piggytech Global Limited / acquired microfinance bank (in-house).
PiggyVest processes payments through PiggyVest wallet (self-operated) and Pay with Pocket (self-operated).
PiggyVest uses Oval Technologies (Graph Finance) — IMTO for FX and cross-border payouts.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in PiggyVest's stack: Payments / PSP (PiggyVest wallet (self-operated) and Pay with Pocket (self-operated)); Banking / BaaS (Piggytech Global Limited / acquired microfinance bank (in-house)); FX & payouts (Oval Technologies (Graph Finance) — IMTO).
PiggyVest was founded by Somto Ifezue, Odunayo Eweniyi and Joshua Chibueze and is founded in 2016, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.
PiggyVest has raised $1.1M+ (disclosed) in total (latest round: Seed, 2018).
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