VugaPay
“Can a single cross-platform payment API unify fragmented African mobile money, card, and Bitcoin rails into one digital wallet for businesses and consumers?”
Founded2015
HQRwanda
FoundersPatrick Muhire, Cedrick Muhoza
IndustryFintech / Cross-border payments
The story
Founded in 2015 in Rwanda by Patrick Muhire and Cedrick Muhiza, VugaPay was built as a cross-platform payment aggregator to bridge mobile money, credit card networks, and Bitcoin across African markets where interoperability between payment rails was limited. The platform targets both businesses and consumers, offering a digital wallet model similar to PayPal but adapted for African mobile-money ecosystems. It expanded to nine countries by end of 2016, processing over 5 million transactions.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2015
VugaPay launched by Vuga Ltd in Rwanda as a cross-platform mobile money and payment service accessible via iOS, Android, web, and USSD.· banking
2016
Processed over 5 million transactions and expanded to support 40 mobile money networks/carriers across nine African countries (Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Niger, Malawi, DRC, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia).· banking
The stack
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