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Cardtonic Grabs $2.1M For Its New Business Spending Platform

Cardtonic Grabs $2.1M For Its New Business Spending Platform

💳 Meet Cardtonic

  • Cardtonic, is a fast-growing player in the Nigerian fintech space, known for its massive gift card trading platform.

  • They has raised $2.1M Seed round, to extend its bootstraping phase.


📉 Tackling Manual Expenses

  • Many African startups and businesses deal with fragmented payment systems and messy manual expense tracking.

  • This makes daily operations slow and gives founders very little visibility into where their cash is actually going.


🛠️ Building The Pil

  • Pil, the new product launching by Cardtonic, aims to fix this by giving companies real-time tracking and tools to prevent unauthorized overspending.

  • Because they already have millions of users on their primary app, they have a head start with market trust and data.


🚀 West Africa and Beyond

  • The fresh funds will go toward hiring top engineering talent to build out the Pil infrastructure.

  • The goal is to support thousands of new business clients and become a leader in the B2B spend management space in West Africa.

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