Helicarrier (previously Buycoins) is building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa. To accomplish this, we're building: - Buycoins is the easiest place to buy, sell, and manage your cryptocurrency portfolio. - Sendcash is a crypto powered remittance product by BuyCoins. - Sendcash Pay is a suite of developer tools that let you add borderless payment experiences to your digital product. - NGNT is a collateral backed Naira stablecoin
Location: Italy, Umbria, Africa
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2017
Investors 2
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| 30.09.2021 | Y Combinat... | ycombinato... |
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Mentions in press and media 4
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| 22.08.2022 | Amidst global investment downturn, Microtraction announces a $15 million first close of its community fund | For most of 2022, founders globally have had one question: where are investors, and why aren’t they deploying funds into our brilliant startups? Some investors have blamed the funding winter on the economic recession, others have blamed exc... |
| 30.03.2022 | Here’s how Ire Aderinokun is helping to shape Helicarrier’s culture | The search for remote work has increased by 490% since the beginning of the pandemic. This means more companies, including big tech ones, have had to move their operations online. Remote work comes with its own advantages including a reduct... |
| 28.10.2021 | Buycoins’ journey to powering Africa’s financial and digital economy | Buycoins is celebrating its history and the milestone of transitioning to Helicarrier, its new parent company, and is holding an event titled “State of The Union” on October 30 to mark it. While the discussions at the event would have far-r... |
| 19.10.2021 | Who’s afraid of crypto-salaries? | Like most Nigerian workers, Kola*, at his former job, used to be paid his salary in the country’s official currency: the naira—until he started working at a fintech company registered outside Nigeria. Now he gets paid in USD Coin (USDC), a ... |