NJIAPAY (N-JEE-HAA-PAY)

Our mission is to guide businesses across Africa through payments complexity, with outcomes that grow revenue.

We help SA businesses earn more from online payments
WHAM! KAPOW! ZAP!

The Origin of NjiaPay

Picture it: the complex terrain of African payments, rich with opportunity, but home to a villain who'd been operating for years. Quietly. Confidently. Without consequence.
Failed Payments aka FP. We shudder to type the name.

FP is not a sympathetic character. He’s responsible for swiping a percentage point here, a declined card there. Unremarkable on its own but catastrophic at scale. And for a long time, everyone just accepted him as part of the game.

The Origin of NjiaPay

Well, not everyone, as it turns out.

Jonatan Allback had spent 15 years inside the payment operations of Adyen, Amazon, Netflix and Uber. Roderick Simons had built payment infrastructure at Yolt that doesn't flinch under pressure. Together, they were something the African payments landscape had never quite seen.
Their first target? Talk360, one of Africa's leading international calling platforms. Six PSP integrations collapsed into one. A 25% uplift in checkout conversion. Revenue FP had been secretly pocketing, returned to its rightful owner.

The problem wasn't unique to Talk360. It was endemic. And now there was something built specifically to fight it.
That's when NjiaPay stopped being an internal tool and became a full-fledged product. It also marked the beginning of the end for FP's reign of petty terror.

Stealth. Speed. Zero mercy for Failed Payments.

HOW WE WORK

Values

Own the customer problem

Own the customer problem

We are your Partner. Bring your problems, and let's find a solution.

Deliver excellence, with speed

Deliver excellence, with speed

Perfect doesn't exist, but we aim high 
and ship great work fast.

Turn challenges into innovation

Turn challenges into innovation

Every obstacle is an opportunity 
to build something better.

Make it fun

Make it fun

We're building something big for Africa. 
We plan to enjoy the ride.

MEET THE TEAM

Built with international prowess and deep local context

Jonatan Allback

Jonatan Allback

CEO & Co-Founder

Roderick Simons

Roderick Simons

CPTO & Co-Founder

Danielle Wallace

Danielle Wallace

Copy & Content Lead

Stefan van der Weide

Stefan van der Weide

Founding engineer

Dominik Fuchs

Dominik Fuchs

Head of Product

Luuk Winkens

Luuk Winkens

Head of Growth

Storm Sinnema

Storm Sinnema

Marketing Lead

Samuel Prevost

Samuel Prevost

Senior Software Engineer

André Bassa

André Bassa

Head of Finance

Rodney Hawkins

Rodney Hawkins

Senior Software Engineer

Yannick Perrenet

Yannick Perrenet

Senior Software Engineer

Mukhtar E. Abrahams

Mukhtar E. Abrahams

Growth & Partnerships

Wendy Lategan

Wendy Lategan

Designer & Art Director