Our Stories

Once Upon A New Build Here’s something you don’t hear every day: A proudly bootstrapped company wakes up one morning, looks at its data, its growth, its ambitions…and says, “Alright....

When Timi, our Operations Manager, first described Just Gadgets during a sit-down session (that we may or may not have bribed him into!), he compared it to the iPhone 17...

On our Customer Experience floor, mornings start with a sound everyone is familiar with.  And no, not the usual office buzz, not here. But the soft ping of the first...

Here’s some food for thought:  They say money can’t buy happiness. But money can buy a meal, and have you ever had one of those days when you felt very...

If you know anything about Nigerians (honestly, Africans everywhere), we don’t play about two things: our people, and our money. We take both very seriously at Cardtonic, too; our people’s...

On one of those busy Wednesday mornings earlier this year, our Marketing Associate, Lawal shared a link on Slack. It was a link to the tech events catalogue he had...

At Cardtonic, most of our new features don’t start in a boardroom; they start with our users. The flow is simple: “What do our users want that we can offer?”...

In April, we announced something nobody saw coming: we were starting a football club. A fintech owning a football club? Not exactly a headline you scroll past every day. Reactions...

Earlier this year, as we prepared for our masterclass session at Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, ES suggested a bold focus: Cardtonic’s pathway to profitability and growth without external funding. It...