Building Chipper with Ham Serunjogi, Founder & CEO and Lead Investor Dan Kimerling

Cambrian Fintech with Rex Salisbury

On this episode, originally recorded in Mar 2022, we dive into the backstory of Chipper Cash, at the time, the most valuable startup in Africa recently valued at just over $2 billion. Chipper provides free and instant cross border money transfers, and has grown to serve over 4 million customers, doing 80,000 transactions.

█ Guests

Ham Serunjogi, Founder & CEO at Chipper

Dan Kimerling, Founder & Managing Partner at Deciens (lead investor in Chipper's Seed & Series A)

█ Timeline

[Intros] - Ham & Dan

[Raising] - How Dan & Ham Met

[Crisis] - Responding when shut down in their largest market

[Team Building] - How Chipper Built a world class legal and ops teams

[Roadmap] - How Chipper prioritizes their product roadmap

[Org Structure] - How Chipper built a matrixed org

[The Future] - Chipper’s Long Term Vision

[Advice] - Advice for prospective founders