Ghana's SeevCash lands $333K in Stellar grants, launches Visa card
What's the deal? SeevCashDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Ghanaian remittance and peer-to-peer money transfer startup, has raised $333,000 in grant funding through the Stellar Community Fund and the Stellar Development FoundationDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. The money spans four separate awards, including two Community Fund grants and two ecosystem growth programmes.
What's the endgame? SeevCash serves African diaspora communities across Ghana, the US, and beyond, letting families send and request money across borders. Chief executive officer and co-founder Dawuda Iddrissu said each award "has come at a moment when we needed it most," helping the company "move faster on the roadmap."
The product: SeevCash is marking the funding by launching a VisaDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → card that lets users spend their balances online and in-person, anywhere Visa is accepted. The card builds on an existing partnership with MoneyGramDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, which strengthens how funds move into the platform.
Why a card? Chief technology officer Cosmos Appiah framed the launch as a response to user demand: "We fixed the sending. Then our users kept asking us the same question: where's the card?" The Visa partnership, he said, is the answer.
Context: The Stellar Community Fund is an open-application awards programme run by the Stellar Development Foundation, drawing on community input to back developers and startups building on the Stellar network. At $333,000, the round sits toward the lower end of the funding scale — grant-stage capital rather than a priced equity round.
The signal: Blockchain networks like Stellar are increasingly seeding African fintechs directly through grants, betting that cross-border remittance is the sector's clearest use case. For SeevCash, the mix of Stellar backing, a MoneyGram cash-in channel, and a Visa spend rail points to a full-stack play on diaspora payments.
Read more: disruptafrica.com
