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Funding and backers

Total raised
$36.6M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$25M
Venture round · Mar 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
12
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Entrée Capital, HAVAÍC
The money's age
Long since its last round
66 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
22/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 18, 2021 Raised a round Venture round $25M · led by Valar Ventures · TechCrunch Nov 11, 2020 Raised a round Seed $10M · PYMNTS.com Sep 1, 2019 Raised a round Pre-Seed $1.6M 2019 Founded
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Web presence
top 0.78%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Mar 2021 $25M Valar Ventures lead TechCrunch
Seed Nov 2020 $10M — PYMNTS.com
Pre-Seed Sep 2019 $1.6M — fintechfutures.com
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How Kuda hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
60 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Kuda scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 60 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Kuda is a digital bank serving Nigerian consumers and small businesses. Its application offers accounts, transfers, savings and overdrafts. The company holds a microfinance banking licence.

News

News The Hindu 2 months ago
Explore Kuda Huraa in the Maldives with Urja's naturopathy and Reefscapers' marine conservation
At Kuda Huraa in the Maldives, explore Urja's five-element naturopathy, alongside Reefscapers' coral restoration, turtle conservation and marine research
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News TechCrunch 1 year ago
Kuda and CEO face allegations of sex discrimination and unfair dismissal from former executive, per filing
An employment tribunal case has placed Kuda, one of Africa's fastest-growing digital banks, under scrutiny over allegations of workplace discrimination and wrongful dismissal.
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News eTurboNews 2 years ago
No Witchcraft at the New NH Maldives Kuda Resort
There is no danger of witchcraft at the first NH Hotel planned to open after the country arrested a State minister for witchcraft in the Republic of Maldives on September 1, 2024.
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News TechCabal 2 years ago
Kuda, the Nigeria-focused neobank, tripled revenue to $22million in 2022
At the end of 2022, Kuda splurged $42 million on new treasury investments which at the time made up one-third of its revenue.
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News CNBC 2 years ago
The world's top 250 fintech companies: 2024
2024 has proven a transformative one for financial technology, with the market entering a new normal. In this climate, CNBC, together with Statista, has named the top 250 fintech companies globally.
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News Businessday NG 2 years ago
'Small businesses need support to drive Nigeria's economy for prosperity'
Kuda Business, a small and medium enterprise (SME)-targeted product offering from Kuda, one of Nigeria's digital banks, recently reached a...
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News CNBC 3 years ago
From banking giants to lending up-and-comers - here are the world's top 200 fintech companies
From across the globe, spanning a diverse range of applications in finance - these are the world's top fintech companies.
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News TechCrunch 4 years ago
Kuda takes digital banking play to the UK with its remittance product
Kuda has opted to launch its financial services in the U.K. as expansion into other African countries stall
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kuda over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
49
Postings analysed
16
Stack modernity
72/100
Languages
C#25%
SQL25%
Swift25%
Python19%
Frameworks & libraries
Core Animation25%
SwiftUI25%
UIKit25%
Appium13%
Databases
Core Data25%
MySQL13%
BigQuery6%
Google BigQuery6%
Cloud & platforms
Azure31%
.NET13%
AWS13%
Azure DevOps13%
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Full Kuda tech stack 49 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
12
3 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
61 days
faster than 22% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
21% ▲
Mobile
14% ▼
Product
14%
Analytics
14%
Backend
7% ▼
DevOps
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Oct 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack Oct 2026
Added BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added Windows to stack Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack Oct 2026
Added Notion to stack Oct 2026
Added Model Context Protocol to stack Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Lagos
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Lagos Nigeria
HQ
Contact us
8 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Mobile, Sales, Backend
1-11 Commercial Avenue, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
seen since Mar 2024 company site, job postings
Cape Town South Africa
Regional office
3 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for QA, Product, Analytics
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Abuja Nigeria
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for DevOps
seen since Jun 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $39k – $84k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Cape Town
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
dbt
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
Analytics
Looker
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Abuja
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Azure
Windows
Cybersecurity
PCI DSS
Analytics
Looker
Management
Slack
Notion
Jira
Google Workspace
ITIL
Microsoft Office
Apply
≈ $27k – $62k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Cape Town
CI/CD
GitOps
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Cape Town
Python
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
C#
Node JS
Groovy
Maven
HikariCP
Kotlin
OkHttp
Node JS
Axios
Databases
MySQL
DevOps
Azure DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
Jenkins
Shift-Left
Apache HTTP Server
Cybersecurity
Shift-Left Security
Management
Jira
QA
TestNG
Selenium
JMeter
Cypress
Playwright
Appium
Jest
Rest-Assured
Apply
≈ $13k – $34k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Lagos
CI/CD
GitOps
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Lagos
Swift
UIKit
SwiftUI
Core Data
Core Animation
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
≈ $8.5k – $23k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Lagos
Python
SQL
A/B Testing
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Lagos
Swift
UIKit
SwiftUI
Core Data
Core Animation
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
Hybrid • Full-Time • Lagos
Swift
UIKit
SwiftUI
Core Data
Core Animation
DevOps
CI/CD
Apply
≈ $11k – $32k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Lagos
SQL
C#
.NET
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Management
Agile
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$36.6M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $25M Details
Seed 2020 $10M Details
Pre-Seed 2019 $1.6M Details