SofizPay
“Can a GIE Monétique-certified Algerian payment gateway become the financial super app for Algeria's 45+ million citizens by owning the CIB and Edahabia rails and layering on digital wallets, top-ups, and merchant services?”
Founded in 2024 as an Algerian payment gateway providing direct API access to CIB (interbank card) and Edahabia (Algeria Post card) rails — two of the only widely available digital payment instruments in Algeria. The company quickly broadened its scope beyond pure gateway into a Super App, layering on a digital wallet, P2P transfers, telecom top-ups, and bill payments, positioning itself as the infrastructure backbone for Algeria's nascent e-commerce ecosystem. Its Web3 / blockchain branding reflects an early positioning as 'Algeria's first blockchain payment solution', though the operational rails are traditional Algerian interbank networks. The company remains very early-stage with only ~5 employees and $15K in disclosed funding.