Sudo Africa: API that Helps Fintech Startup to Issue Physical and Virtual Cards

Sudo Africa is giving Businesses, especially Fintech Startup an opportunity to issue their own physical or virtual debit cards with just a few lines of codes. As we all know that traditional ways of issuing cards are very expensive, slow and inflexible.

So those ways are not meant for startups. They are reserved for only large companies. This means, small businesses and startup will not usually gain access to this but thing has changed now, with Sudo Africa single API, developer and tech-towards businesses in Nigeria, can not create new cards - physically or virtually.

What is Sudo Africa?

Sudo Africa is a digital API company in Nigeria, that allows developers, small businesses and fintech startups to create their own physical and virtual cards at scale with greater control and flexibility.

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The company was founded in 2020 by Kabir Shittu and Aminu Bakori.

How does Sudo Africa works?

Sudo works by allowing businesses to issues their own physical or virtual debit cards to customer. This can be done through its Application Programming Interface to offers programmable cards and making it affordable to all kind of businesses. 

We tried to get customized debit cards at our previous startup  and could not believe how incredibly hard the process was. And we decided to fix this major headache for other founders and make sure they never go through the unnecessary strain. It is almost unbelievable but even as I speak to you, we still have not gotten the cards and it has been more than two years.

Said by CEO and Co-founder of Sudo Africa, Aminu Bakori. 

In the aspect of pricing, with a flat monthly fee of ₦50,000, companies can get onboarded and create virtual cards  as low as ₦50 and physical cards for as low as ₦1,000.

About Sudo Africa

Sudo Africa, an API platform for small businesses to issues their own physical or virtual debit cards seamlessly. Sudo was founded in 2020 by two people in Kaduna, Kaduna, Nigeria.

Kabir Shittu and Aminu Bakori are the COO and CEO and Co-founder of Sudo Africa. The company has a website which can be accessed via https://www.sudo.africa/ .

Sudo Africa has involved in a pre-seed round. The company recently raised $3.7millions from funding round led by Global Founder Capital [GFC]. Kabir Shittu says this new funding will be used to target new markets across Africa, expand the current team, and engineer marketing and growth.

Some other investors that participated in the funding round are LoftyInc, Rallycap Ventures, Kepple Africa, Ventures Platform, MSA Capital, Picul Capital, Berrywood Capital, ZedCrest, Suya Ventures, and Future Africa.

Benefits and Advantages of Using Sudo Africa

Sudo offers many opportunities to developers, businesses and their clients. The major benefit is offer of physical and virtual cards at scale with greater control and flexibility.

That's, it allows businesses such as Fintech Startup to build unique features with their open application programming interface (API) and a readily available sandbox environment. This allows them to start creating physical and virtual debit cards within days and not months, making it affordable to all kind of businesses regardless of their size or revenue.

Sudo also allows any small business to start issuing cards to its staff and customers for different purposes including, but not limited to buy now and pay later scheme for retailers, loyalty programmes for customers, digital wallets for virtual banks, management services for corporate expenses, amongst other use cases.

Kabir Shittu COO and co-founder at Sudo Africa said that the major and biggest advantages of Sudo is its flexibility and ability to customize solutions to fit the company.

Conclusion

Sudo Africa is a card issuance software company that allow startups to issue physical or virtual debit cards to it staff and customers at low cost with greater control and flexibility.

On Sudo, businesses can create, manage, and distribute physical and virtual cards like Visa Card, MasterCard, and Verve Card. These cards have advanced spending controls and real-time authorizations, and allows the businesses or fintech companies to be in charge of the process from beginning to the end.