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Lenco

YC Winter 2022 Active

Pan-African digital bank for Africa's 50m businesses

https://lenco.co ↗
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Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”

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