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Taptap Send
Low-cost money transfers
- 201-500 employees
- Fintech
- B2C
- Payments
- SaaS
- Mobile
- Epworth House, 25 City Road, Shoreditch, London, London, England EC1Y 1AA, GB
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Company mission
Helping people to send money instantly and securely at a fraction of the cost.
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Traditional services for money transfer to developing countries are often slow, expensive, inconvenient and have limited reach in rural areas. Taptap Send is tapping into the rising global mobile money market to facilitate convenient, secure and fast money transfers.
The Taptap Send app allows users to make instant, no fee transfers from a European bank account directly into a mobile money account abroad. Its ease-of-use, low fees and speed has set Taptap apart from rival solutions, including traditional money wiring services.
Since launching in 2018 Taptap Send have reached tens of thousands of customers and have moved millions of dollars back to developing countries. Initially launched in Africa, Taptap is now active in 29 countires, including Lebanon and Pakistan. This is a positive indicator of the app's success and potential for expansion into new territories.
Benefits
- 25 days, public holidays + Pipio day!
- Flexible hours
- Employer pension contributions
- Private health insurance
- Headspace Subscription
- Work from home desk stipend
- Taptap equipment (laptop, accessories)
- Regular team events
- Learning and Development budget for your professional development needs
Company values
- Impact First
- Team next
- Accept reality, propose solutions
- Win with grit
- Be proactively candid, with yourself and others
- Love the particular
- Own it
- Create positive energy. Maybe, even have fun
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$65m
SERIES B
May 2020
$13.4m
SERIES A
$78.4m
Total funding
This company has top investors
Founders
Michael Faye
(CEO)Previously founded Segovia and GiveDirectly, platforms for facilitating payments to people living in extreme poverty
People progressing
Valentino started as a Customer Support Agent, moved into the Fraud team and is now part of the Growth division.
Diversity & Inclusion at Taptap Send
Jordan Trott (Head of Talent, Tech)
- Our diversity is very good, but we continue to embed diversity hiring into our Recruitment strategy to ensure that we continue to have a hugely dynamic workforce. We believe this is the key to winning, we believe this is the key to becoming a business our users trust
- D&I is so important because our company ethos is to be entirely user centric. We do this by embedding ourselves in the diaspora communities we serve, and also recipient communities in developing economies. There is no better way to connect with our user base, than to hire people from our user base!
- We are a hugely diverse team by; age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, education, location and heritage.
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Taptap Send is an incredible place for those looking to begin their journey into the FinTech industry and start-up space. We have a global and diverse team with experiences from a wide-range of industries -- the scope for learning and development in the growth team is unparalleled and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time so far as a launcher! For a mission-driven organisation this is the place to be.
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Opportunities to learn
Nov 2021
We are surrounded by colleagues who have varying backgrounds and skillsets, all coming together to build the best product for our community.
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Intelligent people
Nov 2021
My favorite part about Taptap Send is the team I get to work with - from problem-solving to afterwork drinks, I enjoy every moment that I spend with my coworkers. We're solving super tricky problems and nothing at a startup is ever simple, so it's crucial to have fun and brilliant people across our team!
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Team energy
Nov 2021
I love being challenged by working across different disciplines and markets and Taptap has made that possible! Beyond core BizOps skills, I've gotten to work on comms, localization, program building, hiring, analytics, and a whole lot more!
Marketing
Challenging work
Nov 2021
My team literally comes from all the markets that we send money to and we have intentionally built our that way. It makes us much better at our jobs and it's a joy working with a diverse team.
Marketing
People of all backgrounds are welcomed
Nov 2021
