Nigeria Law
Companies of Record

Fintech · democracy · Founded 2015

Paystack

Status: Operating (Stripe).

Why it is on record

First Nigerian startup admitted to Y Combinator (2016); acquired by Stripe in 2020 for a reported $200m+ — the largest US acquisition of a Nigerian startup at the time and the deal that globalised "Nigerian tech" as an asset class.

Record held

Landmark exit; YC first.
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.