Start-up funding in financial services in West Africa 2010-2019, by sub-sector
Within the period of 2010 and 2019, West African financial services start-ups in payments raised an amount of approximately 239 million U.S. dollars, which was the highest and covered 68.3 percent of all West African start-up funding in this sector in that same period. This was followed by credit service providers, which accounted for 19.5 percent (68.34 million U.S. dollars) of the total funding. Solution providers registered the least of funding raised compared to the other sub-sectors.