CHIPPER Cash, headquartered in San Francisco, provides mobile-based peer-to-peer payments solutions across Sub-Saharan Africa — with zero transfer fees and low cross-border rates. The company also offers e-commerce solutions for merchants. Chipper has a presence in Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya. It processes 80,000 transactions a day, has over three million users — and around 10,000 more join each day. The start-up recently secured a $30m Series B funding round to fuel expansion and innovation. The BV judges announce Chipper Cash as winner of the 2020 award for Best Cross-Border Money Transfer Services (Africa).
