Below is our recent interview with Hasan Luongo, VP Growth Marketing at Chipper Cash:
Q: What is Chipper Cash? Briefly describe how it works.
A: Chipper Cash is free mobile app for sending and receiving money, locally and cross-border across seven countries in Africa and now the UK. Chipper offers users free local transfers and the lowest cross border rates. You can also pay bills, buy and sell Bitcoin, and purchase discounted airtime instantly in the app.
Q: What are the key features of your platform?
A: Send and Receive Money
Discounted Airtime Purchases
Buy and Sell Bitcoin
Pay Bill for Free
Q: Who would be your ideal user and why?
A: Smartphone users generally and small businesses especially those that trade across borders.
Q: You’ve recently raised $30,000,000 in Series B funding; can you tell us something more?
A: The funds will be used to continue to fuel our international and Africa expansion, launch a full suite of new products, and building our work class team globally.
Q: What is next on the roadmap for Chipper Cash?
A: Chipper are launching Virtual Debit Cards, Fractional Stock Investing, an API for Developers to leverage Chipper for payments and payouts inside their products, and a suite of tools for small business and merchants to get paid faster online and in-person.