Aella Credit provides Instant loans to Africans who can prove a source of Income either through their employers or individually. We are the easiest way to build credit and access more opportunity to better your future.
Location: Nigeria, Lagos
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2015
Investors 3
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| - | Oyster Ven... | oyster.vc |
| - | 500 Startu... | 500.co |
| - | Zeno Ventu... | zenoventur... |
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| 26.03.2025 | Nigerian fintech Payhippo rebrands as Rivy, raises $4 million for clean energy financing | Payhippo, a Nigerian fintech that formerly provided SME loans, has rebranded as Rivy and raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round to focus on its clean energy financing business. The funding—split evenly between $2 million in debt and $2 m... |
| 30.03.2024 | Aella Rebrands to Aella Microfinance Bank, Pledges Enhanced Financial Solutions for Nigerians | Aella, a leading provider of credit and financial solutions in Nigeria, proudly announces its official name change from Aella Credit to Aella Microfinance Bank. This strategic move is in line with Aella’s commitment to innovation and delive... |
| 10.06.2020 | Inside the wave of disruption sweeping Nigeria’s sluggish insurance industry | Slowly, disruption is coming to Nigeria’s sluggish insurance industry. “A few years ago or traditionally, how long do you think it would take us to insure 1 million people?” Jim Ovia, one of Nigeria’s veteran bankers asked an audience in Ma... |
| 10.02.2020 | Nigerian fintech, Aella Credit is pivoting after raising $10 million | Nigerian fintech, Aella Credit has raised a new round of funding as it plans to scale its financial solutions. The microlending company announced a $10 million debt funding from Singapore-based HQ Financial Group (HQF). Started in 2015, Ael... |
| 10.02.2020 | Nigerian fintech startup, Aella Credit, raises $10 million debt financing to expand and invest in blockchain | Starting off as a micro-lending platform, Aella Credit has raised $10 million in debt financing to expand, and also to become a full-service lending and payments platform. |
| 10.02.2020 | Nigerian fintech startup, Aella Credit, raises $10 million debt financing to expand and invest in blockchain | Share this article: Nigerian fintech startup, Aella Credit, has raised $10 million debt financing round, from HQ Financial Group (HQF), a Singapore-based private company specializing in new material science, semiconductor and blockchain fin... |
| 22.01.2019 | These are the companies backing Techpoint Build West Africa 2019 | Share this article: We are grateful for the dedication and generosity of our family of sponsors, some of whom have been with us since the first edition, last year. This is more than just a list of brands, it is a community of corporations a... |
| 21.03.2017 | All 51 startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2 | More than 15,000 founders from 7,200 startups applied to this batch of Y Combinator . It chose just over 100, with founders from 22 countries, to go through its accelerator program. Today, the second half of those companies launched onstage... |
| 21.11.2016 | Nigerian Startups, Aella Credit and TalentBase have been accepted into 500 Startups’ accelerator program | 500 Startups, a global venture capital seed fund, has selected two Nigerian startups – Aella Credit and TalentBase – into the 19th batch of their seed investments program. TalentBase is a Human resources management solution platform that wa... |
| 18.11.2016 | Here’s the 19th batch of 500 Startups companies | 500 Startups just wrapped up its 18th batch of company launches last month — which means it’s already looking forward to the next one. This time around, in its 19th batch, the program (no longer called an accelerator, ironically) has 44 com... |
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