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Lagos B2B cross-border payments platform processing $700M annualized volume; profitable since Q4 2023 with 20% monthly growth backed by YC competing with Flutterwave for African international payments.
Waza is a Lagos-based B2B cross-border payments platform enabling businesses in Africa and other emerging markets to make and receive international payments — solving the specific challenge of settling transactions across currencies and financial systems where correspondent banking relationships are limited, FX rates are poor, and traditional wire transfers are slow and expensive. Founded in 2022 by Emmanuel Igbodudu and Maxwell Obi and a Y Combinator W23 graduate, Waza raised $8 million, processes $700 million in annualized payment volume, reached profitability in Q4 2023 while maintaining 20% monthly growth, and launched Lync as a multi-currency account platform.
Global payments infrastructure founded by Patrick and John Collison (YC W10); $1.4T payments volume in 2024; $18B+ revenue; $106.7B valuation as of Sept 2025; powers everything from startups to Fortune 500 companies with developer-first API design.
Stripe is a global payments infrastructure company founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, headquartered in San Francisco, California and Dublin, Ireland. Stripe was born from the insight that accepting payments online was unnecessarily complex for developers, and that a well-designed API could unlock an entire generation of internet businesses. The company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2010 batch and grew to become the defining payments infrastructure layer of the modern internet economy, processing payments for businesses in virtually every industry worldwide.\n\nStripe's platform provides payment processing, fraud prevention via Stripe Radar, subscription billing, revenue recognition, banking-as-a-service through Stripe Treasury, corporate card issuance, identity verification, and tax compliance tools. It serves a spectrum from early-stage startups to publicly traded enterprises including Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Shopify. Stripe's developer-first philosophy — comprehensive documentation, SDKs in every major language, and a sandbox testing environment — created an ecosystem of millions of businesses built entirely on its infrastructure.\n\nStripe processed $1.4 trillion in total payment volume in 2024 and generates over $18 billion in annual revenue, with a valuation of $106.7 billion as of September 2025. The company has remained private longer than most comparably sized technology companies, giving it flexibility to invest in long-term product expansion. An April 2024 partnership with Apple Pay extended Stripe's reach further into mobile and in-store commerce. Stripe competes with Adyen, Braintree (PayPal), and Square, but its developer ecosystem depth and global infrastructure make it the default payments platform for a generation of technology companies.
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