Sudpay of Senegal Wins 2018 Seedstars Dakar

Senegalese fintech start-up; Sudpay has won 2018 Seedstars Dakar pitch competition.

Sudpay which enables municipalities to collect more revenue by digitising the collection of local taxes has become the area’s first tourism enterprise.

At the competition, Dakar Lives and on-demand delivery startup; Paps came in second and third respectively.

The winning start-up will represent Senegal at the global Seedstars Summit, Switzerland in 2018 where it stands to win up to $1-million in equity investments. Seedstars World’s next African pitch events, Seedstars Nairobi and Seedstars Kinshasa, are both set to take place on 21 September

Established in 2014, Sudpay claimed to have operations in eight Francophone countries: Gabon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Congo and Cameroon.

The start-up’s team includes co-founders Samba Sow, project manager Moustapha Fall, marketing director Meissa Diop and customer service manager Bamba Khouma. Some of Sudpay’s products include digital ticketing solutions for events, merchant payment solutions and automated payment systems for the transport industry.