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Segovia Technology — A Crown Agents Bank Company
http://thesegovia.com/Last activity: 30.08.2022
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Paying people living in extreme poverty is hard. Segovia technology makes it easy, facilitating payments across Africa and Asia through an integrated platform with support for both corporate payments and social programs. Segovia payments are helping refugees restart their lives in Europe, helping communities rebuild after Ebola in Liberia, and supporting gig economy workers in East Africa, among many other applications. We're hiring exceptional people in NY and SF who share this vision.
Segovia’s team combines talented engineering with expertise in emerging-markets payments. Our team includes the co-founders of GiveDirectly, along with early technical leaders behind the IBM SmartCloud, Facebook’s internationalization team, and Google’s search query monetization and Palantir’s expansion into commercial work. Investment is led by Reif Hoffman along with Arif Naqvi, the Omidyar Network, and others.
Segovia’s team combines talented engineering with expertise in emerging-markets payments. Our team includes the co-founders of GiveDirectly, along with early technical leaders behind the IBM SmartCloud, Facebook’s internationalization team, and Google’s search query monetization and Palantir’s expansion into commercial work. Investment is led by Reif Hoffman along with Arif Naqvi, the Omidyar Network, and others.
Location: United States, New York
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2014
Founders name: Michael Faye
Founders Related Locations: United States, New York, New York
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Blue Colle... | bluecollec... |
Persons 1
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| - | Michael | Faye | Chair | linkedin.c... | - | - |
Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.08.2022 | US-based immigrant-focused fintech startup Taptap Send expands to Bangladesh, hiring activities show | Taptap Send, a US-based immigrant-focused fintech company that provides a no-fee international money transfer service for immigrants, has apparently been working to expand its services in Bangladesh. Online hiring activities of the company ... |
| 20.12.2021 | Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets | Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. The World B... |
| 24.06.2021 | Taptap Send gets $13.4M for a no-fee money transfer service aimed at price-conscious emerging market users | Remittances — specifically when people in developed countries send money to family or friends in emerging markets — continue to be a huge lever to help those in more challenging economies survive and improve their lot. Today, a startup that... |
| 30.03.2021 | Crown Agents Bank Launches EMPower Payments | Crown Agents Bank, a UK regulated provider of wholesale FX and cross-border payment services, has launched EMpower Payments, a payments gateway for cross-border transactions into emerging markets. According to Crown Agents Bank, the API-ena... |
| 01.10.2015 | With Reid Hoffman’s Backing, Development Economists Build Segovia, A Startup That Tackles Poverty | Six years ago, Paul Niehaus and Michael Faye were two Harvard-trained development economists who began a small, private experiment in East Africa. Instead of donating food, bedding or medical care or offering high-interest micro-finance loa... |
| 03.05.2015 | Posture.io Is A Low Cost Hack To Stop Slouching At The Desk | If you saw someone pushing an office chair through New York’s financial district this weekend chances are it was this guy: developer Joe Heenan, who’s just shown off a neat hardware hack aimed at improving office workers’ posture here at th... |