When we shared in January that Niobi had been selected for the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator, we called it a meaningful milestone. What happened over the twelve weeks that followed was more than we expected. Every great business of the next decade will operate across borders. Niobi is building the unified financial infrastructure to power that future through business payments, multi-currency accounts, FX, and finance ops tools across 16 markets provided through a single platform. \ \ Today, we are proud to share two things: we completed the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator, and we were awarded the title of Most Investable Startup from the cohort by the program during Demo Day at GITEX Africa. The Visa Accelerator Experience The Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator is twelve weeks of structured, high-pressure engagement with some of the most sophisticated institutions in global payments from Visa, partner banks, and global financial institutions. They challenged our thinking, our positioning, and how we think about building scaleable financial products. Being part of Cohort 5 meant working alongside high-calibre companies building serious solutions across the continent. The connections formed within the cohort were meaningful on their own. But the deeper value came from direct access to Visa's global network and the institutional partners, banks and payment networks around the program. Those relationships are ones we will carry well beyond the program. For us, the experience sharpened our thinking across three areas. Thinking about scale differently. Visa processes billions of transactions across hundreds of countries. Working alongside their teams forced us to interrogate what scale actually demands: not just in volume, but in the resilience, observability, and fault tolerance of the systems underneath. We came away thinking harder about where our infrastructure needs to be over-engineered by design, not just optimized for today's numbers. Infrastructure and architecture decisions. The programme challenged us to be more rigorous about the choices that become difficult to reverse as you grow. How you model multi-currency settlement, how you handle liquidity across corridors, how you design for compliance in markets where regulation will keep evolving: these are infrastructure decisions that determine your ceiling. Having access to people who have made these calls at global scale changed how we think about several things we are building. Global positioning and distribution. Global financial networks do not just move money. They move trust. Working within Visa's ecosystem sharpened how we think about market entry, which partnerships create compounding leverage, and how to sequence geographic expansion. The experience validated what we are building and raised the bar for how we think about building it. Demo Day and Winning Most Investable Startup GITEX Africa in Marrakech is one of the most significant technology and business gatherings on the continent, bringing together founders, investors, enterprise leaders, and policymakers from across Africa and the world. Getting to present on the Demo Day stage there, as part of the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator, was a proud moment for the team. Being named Most Investable Startup, voted for by the audience on the day, is an honour we do not take lightly. The cohort we were part of was strong, with companies building meaningful solutions across the continent. To be recognised within that group means a great deal, and it comes with a responsibility we intend to live up to. What comes next African trade is growing. Businesses are crossing more borders, moving faster, and needing financial infrastructure that can keep up. The partnerships and relationships formed through Cohort 5 of the Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator directly shape how we think about our next phase: the corridors we prioritise, the partners we build with, and the infrastructure decisions we put in place to support it. Working closely with Visa's global network and the institutions around the program has opened doors that would otherwise take years to reach. We are sharper on how we scale. More deliberate about which partnerships create lasting leverage. And clearer than ever about the infrastructure decisions that will define what Niobi can become. We are operating across 16 markets and we are just getting started. To our customers, partners, and the Niobi team: thank you. The best is still ahead.