Stitch Money

Stitch is a fintech company working in Africa. It one of the biggest[1] in open banking sphere.[2][3] The company is in Cape Town, South Africa.[4]

History

In 2019, Stitch was founded in Cape Town, South Africa as Stitch Money. [5]

In February 2021, Stitch got $4 million in investment funding. The startup was working on enabling businesses to access user financial accounts to view financial data.[6][7]

In April 2021, the company started its first payments product – Pay-ins.[8]

In February 2022, Stitch raised $21 million in Series A funding.[9][10][11]

In April 2022, Stitch launched LinkPay – the first payments API in Africa that tokenizes user financial accounts.[12][13][14][15]  

References

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  8. Stitch $21 million Series A and Africa's API fintech sector (in en). Benjamindada.com, modern tech media in SSA (2022-02-17). Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  9. Kene-Okafor, Tege. Stitch raises $21M for its API infrastructure and embedded finance platform. TechCrunch (2022-02-14). Retrieved 2022-11-23.
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  12. Jackson, Tom. SA fintech Stitch launches new one-click secure payments product LinkPay (in en-GB). Disrupt Africa (2022-04-25). Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  13. Stitch Linkpay to enable users link accounts and make secure payment (in en). Benjamindada.com, modern tech media in SSA (2022-04-25). Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  14. Augustine, Abraham. With Stitch's ‘LinkPay’, one-click checkout via bank transfer comes to South Africa and Nigeria (in en-US). TechCabal (2022-04-26). Retrieved 2022-11-23.
  15. PYMNTS. Stitch Rolls Out Payments Product LinkPay (in en-US). www.pymnts.com (2022-04-25). Retrieved 2022-11-23.