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Funding and backers

Total raised
$40M
1 round on record
Latest round
$40M
Venture round · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
8
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Castle Island Ventures, Sozo Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
45/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
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
Aug 5 Raised a round Venture round $40M 2016 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.02%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Aug 2026 $40M — coindesk.com
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Overview

Yellow Card is a digital asset exchange founded in 2016 that focuses on African markets, with a registered base in Atlanta. It operates in around twenty countries, offering local currency on-ramps and stablecoin-based cross-border payment rails for businesses. The company works with regulators across the continent as licensing frameworks emerge.

News

News TheGhanaWeb 21 days ago
Yellow Card appoints Ross Everett as Group CFO
Former Monzo and Deutsche Bank finance leader joins Yellow Card to strengthen its financial leadership as the company scales its global payments infrastructure
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News MyJoyOnline 21 days ago
Yellow Card appoints former Monzo finance leader Ross Everett as Group CFO
Yellow Card, a global financial infrastructure provider focused on stablecoin-enabled payments, treasury and access to dollar liquidity, has appointed Ross Everett as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Everett joins the company with extensive ex
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Yellow Card appoints Ross Everett as Group Chief Financial Officer
Yellow Card appoints Ross Everett as Group Chief Financial Officer
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News Businessday NG 30 days ago
Yellow Card uses Alkepay to build North American payments footprint
Yellow Card, the global stablecoin infrastructure provider with roots in Africa, is using its wholly owned subsidiary Alkepay Inc. to...
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Award MyJoyOnline 2 months ago
Yellow Card wins 2026 TAG Fintech ADVANCE Award for Digital Assets
Ghanaian-founded fintech company Yellow Card has been named the winner of the 2026 Fintech ADVANCE Award for Digital Assets by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), recognising its contribution to innovation in the financial services industry.
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News thebftonline.com 2 months ago
Stablecoins, sovereignty and the missing orchestration layer in Africa's cross-border payments
We know stablecoins work. The benefits are documented, the momentum is undeniable, and the opportunity for Africa is real. But if we are serious about building this infrastructure properly - compliantly, sustainably, and on African terms - then we must al
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News thebftonline.com 2 months ago
Stablecoin push gains momentum as regulators signal support - Yellow Card
Ghana's emerging regulatory framework for digital assets is encouraging banks, Fintechs and other financial institutions to take stablecoins more seriously,
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News arisetv 2 months ago
Yellow Card Raises $40m To Accelerate Global Stablecoin Expansion
Yellow Card secures $40 million in funding to expand stablecoin infrastructure and Global USD Accounts across emerging markets.
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News Businessday NG 2 months ago
Standard Chartered, Sony back Yellow Card in $40m funding to expand stablecoin infrastructure
Yellow Card has secured $40 million in a strategic funding round led by investors including Standard Chartered's SC Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund, as the company increases its expansion beyond Africa and deepens
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News Technext 2 months ago
Why Yellow Card's Gillian Darko says Africa will lead the global stablecoin revolution
Yellow Card's Gillian Darko tells Technext24 why fragmented payments, costly cross-border corridors and a booming population make Africa the frontline of the stablecoin economy.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Yellow Card over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
48
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
73/100AI adopter
Languages
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Vue.js
Pinia
React.js
Vitest
Databases
DynamoDB
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Amazon EKS
Kubernetes
Datadog
AI & ML
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Full Yellow Card tech stack 48 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
68/100
Growing
Open positions
8
2 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
38 days
faster than 34% 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.
Frontend
13% ▼
Leadership
13% ▼
Product
13% ▲
Analytics
13% ▲
Finance
13% ▲
Legal
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added TRM Labs to stack Oct 2026
Added Chainalysis to stack Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack Oct 2026
Removed Windows from stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack Sep 2026
Added Incident Management to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Atlanta United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff

Jobs

Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
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Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
DynamoDB
AI/ML
AWS Bedrock
Frontend
Vue.js
React.js
Pinia
Vite
Storybook
DevOps
Helm
GitHub Actions
Istio
Datadog
AWS
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
SLI/SLO/SLA
GitHub
Amazon S3
Amazon EventBridge
AWS Step Functions
API Gateway
Management
Agile
Scrum
QA
Vitest
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Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
DynamoDB
Frontend
Vue.js
Svelte
React.js
Pinia
Vite
Storybook
Sass
DevOps
Rest API
GitHub Actions
Datadog
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
GitHub
Amazon S3
Amazon EventBridge
Design
Figma
QA
Cypress
Playwright
Jest
Vitest
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Equity • In office • Full-Time
Python
Terraform
CloudFormation
Datadog
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
SLI/SLO/SLA
IAM
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
Wiz
MITRE ATT&CK
SOC 2
GDPR
CVSS
Least Privilege
Orca Security
SIEM
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In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp
DynamoDB
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Amazon EKS
AWS Lambda
Incident Management
Amazon S3
API Gateway
Linux
Management
Agile
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Financials

Total raised
$40M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $40M Details