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Updated to note that Kuda has now responded to say that it didn’t close a bridge round last year. The story below is modified to reflect that. Earlier this month,…

African neobank Kuda tried to raise $20M at flat valuation in 2023, missed user milestone projection by 3M

Kuda, the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. by offering a remittance…

Kuda takes digital banking play to the UK with its remittance product

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Kuda, the challenger bank based in Nigeria and the U.K., has joined the ranks of tech companies in Africa that are pruning their workforce. The news of the layoffs, which…

Nigerian digital bank Kuda is the latest African startup to lay off employees

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Sudan’s first YC-backed startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth

The digital banking space in Africa is taking shape as neobanks on the continent grow in numbers like their global counterparts. Venture capital bets from institutional investors in this class…

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Kuda Bank, the London-based, Nigerian-operating startup that is taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first, personalised and often cheaper set of banking services built on newer, API-based infrastructure,…

Kuda, the African challenger bank, raises $55M at a $500M valuation

Challenger banks continue to make significant advances in attracting customers away from the big incumbents by providing more modern, user-friendly tools to manage their money. Today, one of the trailblazers…

Kuda raises $25M more led by Valar to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’

The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are building services to meet that rapidly-expanding market are…

Nigeria’s Kuda raises $10M to be the mobile-first challenger bank for Africa

Nigerian fintech startup Kuda — a digital-only retail bank — has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding. The Lagos and London-based company recently launched the beta version of its online…

Nigerian online-only bank startup Kuda raises $1.6M