Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder & CEO at Chipper Cash, a venture-capital-backed Fintech firm that creates software to enable free and instant peer-to-peer cross-border payments, and solutions for businesses to handle online and in-store payments, notes that when him and Maijid and started Chipper Cash in 2018, their primary focus was on addressing the international payments challenge.
For this reason, they started with one product in only two countries. Three years later, they’ve “evolved Chipper Cash into a platform with multiple products across multiple countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States.”
Ham wrote in a blog post that “to say that the last year has been eventful would be an understatement.” So, as 2021 came to a close, he wanted to point out that the year was quite eventful because of the firm’s launches in the United Kingdom (and other regions).
Chipper Cash has also grown its team to around 300 professionals globally, and of course raising “over $200 million across two Series C funding rounds.”
Ham also shared that “a particularly memorable event for [them] this year was hosting our special event in San Francisco where [they] also unveiled Burna Boy as [their] Global Brand Ambassador.”
He further revealed that one of their greatest challenges of 2021 was “maintaining a strong company culture as we grow and navigating an ever competitive and regulated landscape.”
Ham added that as they head into 2022, they are expecting the number of employees to only increase as they’ll continue hiring talented workers to join them as the continue “evolving Chipper and building for the next billion users.”
In 2022, the firm’s mission will remain the same – “to unlock global opportunities for all those on the continent,” Ham confirmed.
Progress towards this goal has “never been linear or straightforward, nor should it be,” Ham added while noting that as a company, they will continue to put their clients first and “build products that allow them to effortlessly interact in this increasingly global economy.”