# AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator

> AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator is a VC fund in Warsaw backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 26 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
- Total investments: 26
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vestbee
- Website: https://www.vestbee.com/aws-fintech-africa-accelerator

AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator is a VC fund in Warsaw focused on Financial Services and FinTech. The AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator is a free, 10-week online program that makes the most of Amazon's infrastructure and partner network to assist pre-seed and seed-stage FinTech firms.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 17 | 65% |
| FinTech | 13 | 50% |
| Finance | 4 | 15% |
| Payments | 4 | 15% |
| Mobile Payments | 3 | 12% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 24 | 92% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nigeria | 8 | 31% |
| Kenya | 4 | 15% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Ghana | 2 | 8% |
| South Africa | 2 | 8% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abela | Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments. |  | Grant | Jun 02, 2023 |  |
| eMaisha Pay | eMaisha Pay leverages alternative data, advanced psychometric analytics, and machine learning algorithms to credit score micro and small businesses, empowering them with access to quick, affordable, and non-collateral loans for business growth. eMaisha Pay digitizes the onboarding process allowing small businesses to upload documents and submitinformation online for a completely touchless experience. eMaisha Pay uses pre-defined algorithms to optimize the loan approval process and reduce disbursement time. Digital automation with low code and cloud capabilities makes our platform fast, agile, and stay ahead of the curve by enabling end-to-end automation of lending processes. We seek to transform the traditional lending process by automating customer onboarding, loan origination, decisioning, disbursement, and loan servicing tasks making it significantly cheaper, faster, and easier to provide financing to micro and small businesses. |  | Grant | Jun 02, 2023 |  |
| Moya | Moya is a money management platform for freelancers, solopreneurs, sole traders, and gig workers. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. |  | Grant | Jun 02, 2023 |  |
| Bunce | Bunce is a payment automation and customer value management platform for businesses. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| H28 Technologies | H28 empowers you to take control of your financial future with our robust and user-friendly platform, which allows you to establish credit and obtain housing finance. |  | Grant | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Dreamcash | Dreamcash provides mobile financial products and services that include digital insurance, loans, and cloud-based banking system solutions. |  | Grant | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Xazu Technologies | Xazu Technologies is a Fintech Company focused on long-term educational institution smart solutions that transform manual school operations into smooth, joyful, and efficient experiences. |  | Grant | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| MAZAID | The fastest, simplest, and most comprehensive financial ecosystem, offering all services across Egypt. MazAid is a data-driven platform offering digitized access to finance for millions of unbanked Egyptian individuals and businesses. |  | Grant | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| hela.money | AFRICA'S NEO BANK STARTUP \| EMBEDDED FINANCE \| KENYA FINTECH OF THE YEAR | $25K | Grant | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Abela | Abela is a mobile payments platform that allows the underserved to make and receive payments. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jun 01, 2023 |  |

10 of 26 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [AWS Impact Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aws-impact-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator invest in?

AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Finance startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Nigeria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for AWS FinTech Africa Accelerator closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 26 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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