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Daya gives African people, businesses, and developers financial products and infrastructure to manage money globally.
- Founders
- Tomiwa "Aleph" Lasebikan · co-founder and CEOBefore Daya, he was a Principal PM at Circle, co-founded Helicarrier, and earlier worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft; he holds a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics from Fisk University, graduating summa cum laude.
- Paul Joe · co-founder and COOBefore Daya, he was an Investment Associate at Lyrik Ventures and held product and research roles at Helicarrier; he holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Engineering Management from Purdue University.
- Tomiwa "Aleph" Lasebikan · co-founder and CEO
- Competitors
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WHY IT MATTERS
Daya targets the slow, expensive, fragmented cross-border payments and FX problem that its site and investors describe for African businesses, using stablecoin settlement, local payment rails, and multi-currency accounts to make global money movement faster and more programmable. Its $2.4 million oversubscribed pre-seed, reported growth of more than 40% month-on-month in 2026, and pilot corridor with Aptos Foundation and HashKey MENA show the bet that regulated stablecoin infrastructure can become an operating layer for African trade.
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Pre-seed$2.4M2026-06-015 investors
Also named as backers in company research: Alliance DAO