African | capitalist | Tech entrepreneur building rails that connect Africa to the global economy @element_pay

Kenya
Joined July 2020
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Excited to share that Evolution has joined Nuvion @ournuvion 🚀 When we started Evolution, we had a simple vision: make moving money across borders easier and more accessible for individuals and businesses, enabling them to go Global from wherever they were. We believed that accessing global financial services shouldn’t be complicated simply because of where you live or where your business operates. What started as a platform for exchanging digital assets grew into something much bigger. We built infrastructure that enabled people and businesses to hold multiple currencies, receive international payments, move money across borders, and access financial tools that were previously out of reach. Along the way, we served thousands of users, processed millions of dollars in transactions, and learned firsthand what it takes to build financial infrastructure in emerging markets. But more importantly, we saw just how much work remains to be done. As we continued building, one thing became increasingly clear: solving cross-border banking challenges at scale requires more than a great product. It requires strong financial infrastructure, regulatory reach, and the ability to serve businesses wherever they operate. That’s what makes this next chapter with Nuvion particularly exciting. Nuvion is building an AI Powered Global banking platform for ambitious businesses, bringing multicurrency accounts, international payments, FX, virtual cards, and stablecoin infrastructure together in one place. Our visions have always been closely aligned, and joining forces gives us the opportunity to pursue what we started at Evolution on a much larger scale. For me, this is an opportunity to take everything we’ve learned building Evolution and apply it to something with the infrastructure, reach, and ambition to serve businesses around the world. I’m especially excited that members of the Evolution team are continuing this journey with me at Nuvion. We’ve spent years building, solving difficult problems, and learning together. Now we get to bring that experience into a much bigger mission. To everyone who believed in Evolution, our early customers, investors, partners, community, and the incredible people who contributed to our journey: thank you. You trusted us when we were still figuring things out, challenged us to build better, and helped turn an idea into a real business. I’m incredibly proud of what we built, and even more excited about what comes next. Evolution was never just about building another fintech company. It was about making global banking accessible for the people and businesses who need it. That mission continues at Nuvion. The Job is just starting
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Doing business globally shouldn’t mean setting up a company abroad. With Mboka, your business can have a U.S. business account in its own name, without a U.S. entity, in-person visits or weeks of waiting. Receive payments under your business name and make international collections simpler. Global business, made simple. #Mboka #GlobalAccounts #CrossBorderPayments #Business
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Happy Mashujaa Day From @Y254Channel at the morning 🌄 break. Happy to be invited to speak more about AI and the state of the nation about the Future of AI. – at Nairobi, Kenya
Happy Mashujaa Day from the KBC family. Watch the national event happening in Eldoret live at: youtube.com/live/QAZyTXqqE9I…
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🇰🇪 Heroes built the nation. Now, let’s build the future. 💜 This Mashujaa Day, we celebrate the courage that shaped Kenya, the sacrifices that brought us here, and the bold minds pushing us forward. At ElementPay, we believe the future belongs to those who dare to build it. Here’s to the dreamers, the doers, and the everyday heroes making progress possible. Happy Mashujaa Day. 🇰🇪 #MashujaaDay #ElementPay #BuildingTheFuture
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In a single day, your business could collect payments in Singapore, pay a supplier in China, settle your team in dar es salaam, and close a deal in London. Your banking should make the world feel like one market, not four. With Mboka, access real bank accounts across major markets and manage payments across 30+ currencies, all from one dashboard. Receive, hold, convert, and move money across borders without the usual complexity. One platform. Global reach. Local access. 🌍 Mboka — Move business money at internet speed.
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OPPORTUNITY‼️: $100K for your startup. No equity, no SAFE, no board seat. @dottechdomains just launched a $1M No Excuses Fund for builders from day zero to pre-Series A. What you get: - grants of $10K, $50K or $100K - any stage can get $100K - no deck, working builds only - bootstrapped / seed-funded teams - cloud, AI and dev tool credits - mentorship and support Who can apply: - 18 or older, in eligible locations - working build, day 0 to pre-Series A - work you own outright The catch: your product has to run live on a .tech domain. Redirect doesn't count. Submissions close Dec 15 👉 noexcuses.get.tech/
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Dear uncle wherever you are ps come back to us safely 🙏
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Founders who can make decisions without needing everyone to agree move a lot faster.
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Mboka is live🔥. Today marks a new chapter in our journey to make cross-border payments and global financial infrastructure more accessible to businesses across the Global South. With Mboka, businesses can access global banking, virtual cards, collections, payouts, and stablecoin infrastructure, built to help them move money across borders with fewer barriers. One platform. Multiple markets. Better ways to move money. It is still day one. Explore Mboka and request Access: mboka.finance
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It's pretty incredible how much a founder can accomplish once they stop waiting for the perfect moment to start.
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We have been doing this for a while too. Check us out here : prints.shangalabs.com
Cheki walahi. I like efficiency ii majamaa itakula pesa yangu mingi ii mwaka .
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Can someone take what they've learned and build something real? Can they get experience? Meet the right people? Get discovered by a company? Move into an internship, a job, a startup or their first paying opportunity? That's the harder problem.
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African creators deserve better, the earning gap is more than a gap, it’s a chasm. If you’re a creator , join us @Clapmihq as we embark on this audacious journey to fix this 👏🏽
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Who is a Lagos and building an AI or crypto project? I have a VC mixer invite to give away.
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Dear Wasafiri 🦓💗 ETHSafari 2026 is postponed. We need more time to bring together the resources needed to deliver the Safari we envisioned. New dates will be announced soon. All purchased tickets will receive a full refund. Support the next Safari on Artizen: artizen.fund/index/p/ethsafa… The Safari continues. 🦓
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Scaling across Africa shouldn’t mean building a new payments stack for every market. ElementPay gives you one API to access 8 African currencies: 🇧🇼 Botswana — BWP 🇰🇪 Kenya — KES 🇲🇼 Malawi — MWK 🇳🇬 Nigeria — NGN 🇷🇼 Rwanda — RWF 🇹🇿 Tanzania — TZS 🇺🇬 Uganda — UGX 🇿🇦 South Africa — ZAR One integration. 8 markets. Built to scale. Build across Africa with ElementPay. partners.elementpay.net/
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Paul Graham
@paulgAug 3
The danger of selling to big companies, if you're a startup, is that they don't say no outright. They have months of meetings with you first. Since you hate meetings, that seems to you a sign of commitment. But it's not. They love having meetings! It's almost all they do.
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📢𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐖𝐞𝐛3 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 2025 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 We are excited the unveil the first-ever Kenya Web3 Landscape Report, in collaboration with our knowledge partners @Web3Clubs, and @vaspchamber. As the inaugural edition, this report offers a comprehensive analysis of Kenya's Web3 ecosystem, exploring the growth of its developer community, evolving funding landscape, and regulatory developments shaping innovation across the country. The report covers 🔎: 1️⃣ Startups & Investment Landscape – A deep dive into funding trends and Kenya’s growing web3 startup ecosystem 2️⃣ Developer Ecosystem – Kenya's role as one of the leading hub for web3 talent Africa 3️⃣ Regulatory, Tax & Policy – The evolving policy landscape and what it means for innovation, builders, and investors. A Snapshot of Key Insights 🧵:
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Patrick Bet-David
@patrickbetdavidJul 29
People don't do business with the smartest person in the room. They do business with the person they like, trust, and respect.
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