2x founder

Maxwell Obi

Remittances | Payments | FinTech

Co-founder

Waza· Winter 2023🇺🇸 United States

in LinkedIn

2022Co-founder· Waza (YC W23)

Founder · since 2015

Company

Waza (YC W23)

Role

Co-founder & CEO

current

Stage

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Waza

B2B payments platform for emerging markets.

Winter 2023

Experience

Career

Waza (YC W23)
Co-founder
Co-founder & CEO · 2022 – Present
2022
Sendwave (International Remittance)
Global Head of Business Development · 2020 – 2022
2020
Sendwave (International Remittance)
Head of West Africa Partnerships · 2019 – 2020
2019
Carbon
Head, Payments and SME · Lagos, Nigeria · 2019
2019
Amplified Payment Systems Ltd
Co-founder
Co-Founder/CTO at Amplified (Acquired by Carbon) · 19b Adeyemi Lawson Street, Ikoyi, Lagos · 2015 – 2019
2015
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST)
Entrepreneur in Training · Accra, Ghana · 2015 – 2016
2015
Platform Technologies
Head of Product · Nicon building, Independence Layout Enugu · 2014 – 2015
2014
Unified Payment Services Limited
Senior Software Engineer · No 3, Idowu Taylor Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State. · 2012 – 2014
2012

Bio

Maxwell is a 2x founder and experienced FinTech entrepreneur. Before Waza, he served as the Global Head of Business at Sendwave (W12) - which got acquired by Worldremit for $500M. While there he navigated partnerships and regulatory relationships in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder of Amplify, a Nigeria-based FinTech which got acquired by Carbon in 2019. Maxwell has a background in Software Engineering and holds a Degree in Computer Science.