Products Financial Services Founded 2013 Number of employees 19 (2015) | Website BitPesa.co Headquarters Nairobi Type of business Private | |
 | ||
Industry Bitcoin, Payments, FinTech | ||
In kenya w bitpesa ceo co founder elizabeth rossiello bitcoins gravy episode 46
BitPesa is a universal payment and trading platform for Africa headquartered in Nairobi, with offices and staff in Lagos, London and San Francisco. It provides an online platform to convert digital currency such as bitcoin into local African currencies. Founded in 2013 by Elizabeth Rossiello and Duncan Goldie-Scot, the goal of BitPesa is to allow individuals and businesses to send payments to and from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania .
Contents
At the end of May 2014, BitPesa launched its beta site with a service that allows users to send money to any mobile money wallet in Kenya.
As at November 2015, BitPesa offers instant payments to and from 7 different mobile money networks and over 60 banks in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
Products
BitPesa has three main products: