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Chipper Cash

Chipper Cash is a pan-African fintech (legal entities Critical Ideas, Inc. and Voyse Technologies US, Inc.) operating a mobile-first cross-border money transfer, digital payments, crypto, and investing platform across Africa and the diaspora. Founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi (Uganda) and Maijid Moujaled (Ghana) after they met at Grinnell College in Iowa, Chipper became one of Africa's fintech unicorns in 2021 and has raised over $340M to date. The consumer app — available on iOS, Android, and web — supports peer-to-peer and cross-border transfers across 21+ African countries, virtual Visa cards (Chipper Card), bill pay and airtime top-ups, fractional US-stock investing (Chipper Stocks, 6,000+ public companies, from $1), and historically crypto trading (BTC/ETH). Reported scale includes 5M+ registered users, 1M+ Visa cards issued, and 250,000+ daily transactions. Direct consumer markets include Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Rwanda, the UK, and the US. On the developer side, Chipper exposes the Chipper Network API ("Pay With Chipper") — a merchant-facing API that lets authorized businesses accept cross-border payments across 9 currencies, initiate payouts, issue refunds, and look up Chipper user accounts, authenticated with a Chipper User ID + Network API Key. Documentation is published as a Postman collection and access is gated by merchant onboarding; no public OpenAPI or open-source SDK is currently published. Adjacent products include Chipper ID (AI-led identity verification), Chipper Enterprise (bulk payments and collections), Business Accounts, and Zoona (agent-network remittances), plus an integration with TBD's tbDEX protocol for decentralized cross-border payments.

Chipper Cash is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Fintech, Africa, Cross-Border Payments, Money Transfer, and Remittances.

Chipper Cash’s developer surface includes documentation, sandbox, product news, engineering blog, GitHub presence, YouTube channel, support, and 25 more developer resources.

7.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
0 APIs
FintechAfricaCross-Border PaymentsMoney TransferRemittancesMobile MoneyDigital WalletVirtual CardsBill PayAirtimeCryptoInvestingFractional SharesIdentity VerificationMerchant PaymentsPayoutsNetwork APIPay With ChippertbDEXUnicornNigeriaGhanaUgandaTanzaniaSouth AfricaRwandaUnited KingdomUnited States

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 7.3/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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Security Posture 1

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Chipper Cash Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: chipper-cash
name: Chipper Cash
description: Chipper Cash is a pan-African fintech (legal entities Critical Ideas, Inc. and Voyse Technologies US, Inc.) operating
  a mobile-first cross-border money transfer, digital payments, crypto, and investing platform across Africa and the diaspora.
  Founded in 2018 by Ham Serunjogi (Uganda) and Maijid Moujaled (Ghana) after they met at Grinnell College in Iowa, Chipper
  became one of Africa's fintech unicorns in 2021 and has raised over $340M to date. The consumer app — available on iOS,
  Android, and web — supports peer-to-peer and cross-border transfers across 21+ African countries, virtual Visa cards (Chipper
  Card), bill pay and airtime top-ups, fractional US-stock investing (Chipper Stocks, 6,000+ public companies, from $1), and
  historically crypto trading (BTC/ETH). Reported scale includes 5M+ registered users, 1M+ Visa cards issued, and 250,000+
  daily transactions. Direct consumer markets include Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Rwanda, the UK, and
  the US. On the developer side, Chipper exposes the Chipper Network API ("Pay With Chipper") — a merchant-facing API that
  lets authorized businesses accept cross-border payments across 9 currencies, initiate payouts, issue refunds, and look up
  Chipper user accounts, authenticated with a Chipper User ID + Network API Key. Documentation is published as a Postman collection
  and access is gated by merchant onboarding; no public OpenAPI or open-source SDK is currently published. Adjacent products
  include Chipper ID (AI-led identity verification), Chipper Enterprise (bulk payments and collections), Business Accounts,
  and Zoona (agent-network remittances), plus an integration with TBD's tbDEX protocol for decentralized cross-border payments.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chipper-cash.png
tags:
- Fintech
- Africa
- Cross-Border Payments
- Money Transfer
- Remittances
- Mobile Money
- Digital Wallet
- Virtual Cards
- Bill Pay
- Airtime
- Crypto
- Investing
- Fractional Shares
- Identity Verification
- Merchant Payments
- Payouts
- Network API
- Pay With Chipper
- tbDEX
- Unicorn
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- South Africa
- Rwanda
- United Kingdom
- United States
tags_raw:
- Fintech
- Africa
- Cross Border Payments
- Money Transfer
- Remittances
- Mobile Money
- Digital Wallet
- Virtual Cards
- Bill Pay
- Airtime
- Crypto
- Investing
- Fractional Shares
- Identity Verification
- Merchant Payments
- Payouts
- Network API
- Pay With Chipper
- tbDEX
- Unicorn
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Uganda
- Tanzania
- South Africa
- Rwanda
- United Kingdom
- United States
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chipper-cash/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chipper-cash-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chippercash.com
- type: API
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://support.chippercash.com/en/collections/3354823-network-api
- type: Postman
  url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/18693070/UVz1Psag
- type: Sandbox
  url: https://bit.ly/StartChipperNetworkSandbox
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://support.chippercash.com/
- type: NetworkAPIFAQ
  url: https://support.chippercash.com/en/articles/6019594-what-is-the-chipper-cash-network-api-faqs
- type: ConnectedMerchants
  url: https://support.chippercash.com/en/articles/6003704-how-does-the-network-api-connected-merchants-feature-work
- type: Business
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/business
- type: ChipperCard
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/products/chipper-card
- type: ChipperStocks
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/products/chipper-stocks
- type: ChipperID
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/business/chipper-id
- type: Zoona
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/business/zoona
- type: Enterprise
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/business/enterprise
- type: BillPay
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/products/bill-pay
- type: SendAndReceive
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/products/send-and-receive
- type: Leadership
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/chipper-leadership
- type: News
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/news
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/blog
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.chippercash.com/careers
- type: AppStore
  url: https://apps.apple.com/app/chipper-cash/id1450832711
- type: GooglePlay
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chippercash
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ChipperCash
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/chippercashapp
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/chippercashapp
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/chippercashapp
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@chippercashapp
- type: TikTok
  url: https://www.tiktok.com/@chippercashapp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chippercash
- type: Support
  url: https://support.chippercash.com/
- type: DeveloperEmail
  url: mailto:dev@chippercash.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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