Directing advanced blockchain infrastructure toward West Africa’s merchant landscape, stablecoin-native fintech startup Daya has secured $2.4 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round.
The investment was led by Hivemind Capital, with active participation from Alliance, Lattice, Globelink, and the Aptos Foundation. The freshly injected capital is earmarked to scale the company’s automated cross-border treasury infrastructure, upgrade local regulatory licensing, and launch dedicated B2B liquidity corridors.
Consolidating a Fragmented B2B Payment Landscape
African enterprises conducting cross-border trade, managing global supply chains, or hiring distributed teams across regions have traditionally faced a heavily fractured financial framework.
To complete a single international transaction, companies frequently coordinate between manual spreadsheets, traditional commercial banks, local bureau de change desks, and independent crypto ramps. This disconnected approach results in slow settlement cycles, unpredictable hidden exchange fees, and trapped working capital.
Daya resolves these friction points by consolidating the entire international payment cycle into a unified financial operations layer. Through its specialized business dashboard, merchants can seamlessly collect domestic payments, hold capital securely within institutional stablecoin wallets, and instantly convert multi-market currencies.
The platform supports regulated virtual accounts denominated in U.S. Dollars (USD), Hong Kong Dollars (HKD), and Chinese Yuan (CNY), alongside production-ready developer APIs designed to let third-party platforms easily embed international payment infrastructure.
Leveraging Deep African Tech and Remittance Infrastructure Expertise
The startup was founded by veteran financial infrastructure operators Tomiwa “Aleph” Lasebikan and Paul Joe. The duo previously co-founded Helicarrier, an early pioneering African crypto exchange and stablecoin remittance engine that secured backing from Y Combinator in 2018.
Backed by further corporate experience across major tech and financial ecosystems like Microsoft, Circle, and Lyrik Ventures, the founding team designed Daya to shift focusing away from raw rail architecture and toward comprehensive B2B enterprise workflows.
