Anchor

Developer Tools · Financial Software & Embedded Finance

Overview

Anchor is a Lagos banking-as-a-service company founded in 2022 that lets developers build financial products by API. Its platform covers accounts, cards, payments and compliance on top of licensed partners. The company serves Nigerian startups embedding banking into their apps.

Funding and backers

Backers
4
Y Combinator, DCG
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 2022 Went through Y Combinator 2022 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator S22 accelerator DCG fund BYLD fund Rebel Fund fund
Investors in similar startupsfunds that back the companies most like this one
Endeavor
backs Celcoin, QI Tech
Accel
backs Unit
Lightspeed Venture Partners
backs Synctera
Insight Partners
backs Unit
Scribble Ventures
backs Synctera
Fin Capital
backs Synctera
Similar startupsby what they do, their industry and backers
The Hydrogen Technology11-50 employees
Hydrogen is a no-code & API platform that allows developers to easily launch white label financial products.
SaaScadaVenture round · 3 yr ago · 201-500 employees
A core banking platform for banks, lenders, fintechs and BaaS | Launch all product types from day one | Real-time data that's always…
SyncteraVenture round $15M · 19 mo ago · Founded 2020 · 51-200 employees · 1 role
Synctera provides banking as a service infrastructure connecting fintech companies with sponsor banks. Its platform handles ledgering…
Treasury PrimeVenture round $34.1M · 4 yr ago · Founded 2017 · 51-200 employees · 2 roles
Treasury Prime provides embedded banking software connecting fintech firms directly with partner banks. Its API covers account opening…
UnitFounded 2019 · 51-200 employees · 2 roles
Unit provides banking as a service infrastructure for software platforms. Companies embed accounts, cards, payments and lending into their…
SAVASeed $8M · 2 yr ago
Embedded banking for African finance: accounts, cards, payments and compliance in one licensed API. Sponsor-bank integrations and…

Connections

List
Graph
Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors4
BYLDVia a fund
27 portfolio companies: Valour, Verotera, Vrtx and 24 more
Rebel FundVia a fund
50 portfolio companies: Callab AI, Capi Money, Capitol AI and 47 more
DCGVia a fund
330 portfolio companies: Doppler Finance, Puller AI, Mosaic and 327 more
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6314 portfolio companies
Show all 4
Report a mistake

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
0
Countries
2
Loading the map
Headquarters Builds here Office with open vacancies No open vacancies right now Tap a pin for the office
Lagos Nigeria
HQ
Nigeria
19 Ojulari Street, Ikate, Lekki, Lagos
company site
Newark United States
Regional office
United States
256, Chapman Rod, STE 105-4, Newark, Delaware, USA 19702
company site