Liquidity · May 2026
NALA announced up to $50M in credit financing via Liquidity/Mars Growth Capital to fund expansion, product development, and operational scaling without equity dilution.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
NALA is a fintech/payments company building cross-border money movement for the African diaspora and emerging markets. Its consumer product is a multi-currency money transfer app; its business product is Rafiki, a B2B payments/stablecoin infrastructure API for payouts, collections, and settlement into Africa and beyond.
Primary product
NALA consumer cross-border money transfer app and Rafiki B2B payments/stablecoin API
Founded
2021
Headquarters
Mirage Towers, Tower 2, Floor 8, Nairobi, Kenya
Team size
51-200
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
Cross-border payments / fintech infrastructure / stablecoin payments
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Offices
Business model
Stage
Series A + debt financing
Total raised
$100.5M
Latest round
Credit facility · May 2026
Latest amount
$50M
Credit facility / debt financing
May 2026 · Liquidity (through Mars Growth Capital)
Jul 2024 · Acrew Capital
Jan 2022 · Amplo
Jan 2019 · Accel
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder & COO
Investors
Mission-driven and customer-obsessed, with an ownership mindset. The team spans 18 countries and emphasizes fast execution, cross-border collaboration, and shared rituals like Sarabi and monthly socials.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
No public salary bands were disclosed in the sources reviewed. Public job posts mention a competitive equity offer and show strong employee-review compensation sentiment, but exact pay is not published.
Benefits
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to be transaction fees and FX spread for consumer transfers, with API/platform pricing for B2B infrastructure.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
USD 10M-20M estimated (public LinkedIn/company-profile estimate; annual revenue listed as $18.9M)
Liquidity · May 2026
NALA announced up to $50M in credit financing via Liquidity/Mars Growth Capital to fund expansion, product development, and operational scaling without equity dilution.
NALA blog · Apr 2026
NALA announced a strategic partnership with MoneyGram to use NALA's licensed stablecoin on- and off-ramp infrastructure (Rafiki) for faster cross-border payouts into emerging markets across Africa and Asia.
TechCrunch · Jul 2024
TechCrunch reported NALA's $40M Series A led by Acrew Capital and noted the company's plans to expand its B2B payments platform Rafiki and scale into Asia and Latin America.
TechCrunch · Mar 2024
TechCrunch described NALA's move to build Rafiki after reliability issues on third-party rails, highlighting direct bank/mobile-money integrations and B2B payments into and out of Africa.
TechCrunch · Jan 2022
TechCrunch covered NALA's $10M seed round led by Amplo, with Accel, Bessemer Partners, DFS Lab, and angels, and noted the 2021 pivot from local money transfers to international remittances.