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SEAMFIX

Can an African-headquartered identity infrastructure company become the KYC/eKYC layer for embedded finance across emerging markets?

Founded2007
HQLekki, Lagos, Nigeria
FoundersChimezie Emewulu
Total raised$4.5M
Latest roundVenture - Series Unknown (Alitheia IDF)
IndustryInfrastructure / Identity
The story

Founded in 2007 in Lagos, Seamfix built a digital identity infrastructure business serving telcos, banks, and governments across Africa. The company evolved from bulk enrollment services (SIM registration for MTN, national ID programs for NIMC) into a modular identity platform (Fixiam, BioSmartx, GovSmart, FinSmart, RegSmart) with biometrics, liveness, and document AI. In 2025-2026, Seamfix began positioning as regional identity infrastructure for embedded finance flows — the PAPSS partnership for cross-border payments and FinSmart product line signal a push into KYC/eKYC as a service for financial institutions.

Last 12 months
2026-08
2025-12
2025-11
Product timeline
2007
Seamfix founded in Lagos, Nigeria to build digital identity solutions· founding
2023
Raised $4.5M from Alitheia IDF (gender lens investing fund)· funding
2025
Launched flexible billing on Seamfix Verify with Stripe and Flutterwave integration for multi-currency KYC payments· product
2026
Signed MoU with PAPSS to strengthen cross-border payments across Africa via identity verification· partnership
2026
Signed MoU with Federal Ministry of Agriculture and CFN to launch National Digital Registry for Nigeria's Cooperative Sector· partnership
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by SEAMFIX
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
2 layers disclosed in SEAMFIX’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
StripeFlutterwave
FX & payouts
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
2 more providers across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.