Nala
Money Transfer & Remittances
3open roles
6backers · Y Combinator, DCG
Growinghiring pace, 70 of 100
50+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
NALA is an international money transfer app that facilitates fast, reliable, and secure cross-border money transfers from the UK, US, and Europe to various African countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, and more. With over 500,000 trusted users, NALA provides some of the most competitive exchange rates on the market and allows for real-time financial management via its user-friendly mobile app. Known for its transparency and exceptional customer service, NALA ensures 95% of its transfers are delivered within minutes, catering especially to the global diaspora.
Funding and backers
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Y Combinator, DCG
Momentum
42/100
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
May 31, 2021
Released an app NALA Send Money Globally · App Store
Jan 2019
Went through Y Combinator
Oct 1997
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.8 ★
5.7k ratings
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
3
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
37 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~8 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Backend
20% ▲
Analytics
20% ▲
DevOps
10% ▲
Leadership
10% ▼
Design
10% ▼
Legal
10% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Trino to stack
Oct 2026
Added Spark to stack
Oct 2026
Added Dagster to stack
Oct 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Lagos
Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Nairobi
Aug 2026
New location: London
Aug 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Aug 2026
Added Amazon ECS to stack
Aug 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Nala over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
22
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
Go
Frameworks & libraries
Dagster
Databases
Snowflake
Trino
Redis
Cloud & platforms
Apache Kafka
Databricks
PagerDuty
Spark
AI & ML
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22 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
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Shine CapitalVia a fund
Nyca PartnersVia a fund
VentureSouqVia a fund
DCGVia a fund
Bessemer Venture PartnersVia a fund
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News
Rescue dog Nala dies after 2-year illness believed linked to vaccine
Nala the rescue dog was destined to become a film star but instead became the lead character in her own story, which ended with her death.
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Alecsys Proctor-Turner Says Nala's Biggest Style Upgrade Isn't Her Wardrobe - AOL
Survival of the Thickest Season 3 brings back one of my favorite television characters: Nala. The ambitious fashion student has a way of pulling you in from her very first scene, and by the end of the episode, you're already hoping she gets more screen ti
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Nala to use $40M Series A to build B2B payments platform, scale remittance services
The oversubscribed round was led by San Francisco-based VC firm Acrew Capital.
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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it's building a B2B payment platform too
Rafiki is Nala's solution to stem payout incidences, reduce user charges and ensure reliability as the fintech looks to scale.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
London
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New York
United States
HQ
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
3 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Analytics
Hoboken
United States
Regional office
221 River Street 9th Floor, Hoboken, NJ, 07030, US
Earlier presence
Brussels, Belgium
Nairobi, Kenya
Lagos, Nigeria