Mono vs Spade
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Nigerian open banking API connecting African businesses to 20+ bank accounts for creditworthiness and payments; $17.6M from Tiger Global and General Catalyst competing with Okra for African financial data.
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Mono is a Lagos-based fintech company providing open banking APIs that enable African businesses to connect with their customers' financial accounts — offering account connectivity (read customer bank account data with consent), direct bank transfers, identity verification, and income verification APIs that developers and financial institutions use to build credit, payments, and financial planning products across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Egypt. A Y Combinator W21 graduate, Mono raised $17.6 million total including a $15 million Series A in October 2021 led by Tiger Global, General Catalyst, and Target Global.
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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