Kuda Bank Nigeria

Image sourced from Tech Crunch. Kuda Bank, a Nigerian fintech startup has raised $55-million in a Series B funding round at a valuation of $500-million. Previously, the company announced it had raised $25-million during a round of Series A funding a little over four months ago. Co-leading this latest round of funding were existing investors Target Global and Valar Ventures – a firm co-founded and backed by PayPal co-founder, Peter Thiel. Joining them were SBI Investment and other previous participants. According to Kuda’s co-founder and CEO, Babs Ogundeyi, the startup aims to build a new take on banking services for “every African on the planet” – in service of these lofty goals, the startup is looking to use the funds raised during this latest round to build on its platform for Nigeria, a...