Capi Money vs Spade
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UK YC S23 cross-border payments for African/LatAm/Asia SMEs at $2.9M revenue 2024; €17.2M Creandum Series A Feb 2025 serving businesses in 4 African countries competing with Flutterwave and Nium for emerging market international supplier payment i...
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Capi Money is a London, United Kingdom-based cross-border payment platform for emerging market businesses — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with €17.2 million in Series A funding in February 2025 led by Creandum with Janngo, Firstminute, FourCities, Raba, Kara Maiora, Pioneer, Rebel, and Algorithmic, following a $1.52 million seed in May 2023 — providing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, Latin America, and Asia with efficient international supplier payment infrastructure that reduces foreign exchange fees and delays when paying international vendors. Founded in 2023 by Mitch Riley, Scott Liddle, and Tom Watson, Capi achieved $2.9 million in revenue in 2024 — generating multi-million dollar revenue within 13 months of the Y Combinator batch — operating with 19 employees across 4 African countries.
Financial transaction enrichment API converting raw bank strings to structured merchant data; merchant intelligence for fintech apps, neobanks, and embedded finance products.
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Spade is a financial data enrichment company that provides transaction metadata and merchant intelligence to banks, fintech companies, and financial services firms — transforming raw bank transaction strings (like "SQ*COFFEESHOP 8003847") into clean, structured data with merchant name, category, location, logo, and spending insights. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City, Spade raised approximately $17 million to build a comprehensive transaction enrichment API that serves the growing demand for better financial data in embedded finance and banking-as-a-service applications.
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