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OPay

Fintech · Ikeja, Nigeria · Founded 2018

Delivering on the promise of financial inclusion in Africa today to safely connect people with the places, opportunities, and experiences that they truly care about

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $500M–1B
Headcount 2–5k
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier

Talent graph

OPay's talent

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Employees mapped 4,758 incl. 1 AI specialist
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 16 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 5 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

14 investors on OPay's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 6 investors entered at this stage
Sequoia
HSG
Dianping
IDG Capital
GSR Ventures
Source Code Capital
Series B+ 8 investors entered at this stage
SBVA
3W Capital
SoftBank Vision Fund
SoftBank
Softbank Capital
Dragonball Capital
Gaorong Capital
Redpoint

OPay mafia

Startups founded by OPay alumni

Former OPay employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

LemFiEst. 2020
Ridwan OlalereUnited States
Signal score92
BFreeEst. 2020
Moses NmorNigeria
Signal score86
Fez DeliveryEst. 2020
Seun AlleyNigeria
Signal score84
Wapi PayEst. 2019
Eddie NdichuSingapore
Signal score83
RaenestEst. 2021
Richard OyomeNigeria
Signal score54

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Global footprint

Where OPay has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
24 countries with
team presence
🇳🇬 Nigeria87.4%
🇪🇬 Egypt3.7%
🇨🇳 China3.2%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom1.5%
🇵🇰 Pakistan1%
Top 5 of 24 shown
Web traffic by country
740K monthly visits
across markets
🇳🇬 Nigeria88.8%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.1%
🇺🇸 United States2.8%
🇸🇬 Singapore1.1%
🇬🇭 Ghana1.1%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$9M patent portfolio · 27 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$9M
0.47% of valuation · 471.9× larger than top peer Sumeria ($20k)
27 active patent families
Where OPay innovates ClientComputer programDigital documentDocument preparationDocumentation

Where OPay concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across OPay and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about OPay

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about OPay on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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