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Future Hub, the first Chinese accelerator in Africa and backed by Transsion Holdings was recently launched to support and fund African entrepreneurs to build scalable and innovative products that will solve several problems in Africa.

Future Hub is also backed by Gobi Ventures who is one of the first venture capital firms with a regional presence across China, Hong Kong and ASEAN with over US1.1Billion in assets under management (AUM).

“This capital injection comes in at an opportune time as we plan to scale up our service offering to expand further into the continent. We believe the small business is made up of the individual therefore our vision is to build global financial services for local individuals and small business to scale globally, focusing on Africa and Asia,” Wapi Pay Co-Founder Eddie Ndichu said.

Founded in 2019 in Singapore, Wapi Pay delivers platform-to-platform integrations, global accounts and virtual accounts (wallets) through its technology to offer its partners and customer’s convenient global payments and financial products for individuals, merchants & businesses.

“Africa’s bright future will largely be achieved through entrepreneurial startups that will take advantage of the technological advancements that are available. We hope that the Transsion Future Hub brings forth the next big idea.” Li, Managing Partner, Future Hub said.

Wapi Pay is also a subsidiary of Wapi Capital an Africa based fintech Venture Company that is investing and creating solutions in financial services using new technology. It has teams working in Africa, Singapore and a technology team in China, Beijing.

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