Fintech payments

Bridgecard

Website
Founded 2021Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Bridgecard makes it easy for fintechs to issue MasterCard or Visa cards that work anywhere in the world. We provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in weeks instead of months.

For nearly three years, we’ve supported Africa’s top startups with stable, high-growth card solutions. Thanks to our stability, over 50% of our clients have grown their volumes by more than 5X within 6 months. Our commitment is to deliver great cards that work, provide reliable support, and unbeatable uptime so that your users can be satisfied.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Tunde Adewole

Founder

Building Awaithumans, the infrastructure that lets AI agents hand off tasks to humans or other agents with a single function call. I previously scaled Bridgecard (YC S22) to over $1M ARR before exiting. I love machine learning, recently trained an embedding model (SearchMap Preview) to outrank Gemini on the MTEB leaderboard with 5k+ downloads on Hugging Face.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Festus Owumi

Founder

Festus is a Senior Software Engineer with experiences ranging from Mobile, Machine Learning and Backend Development. He has 5 years experience with companies offering financial services in Africa including TradeDepot, Kippa e.t.c.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2021 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedLagos, LA, Nigeria
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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