About us

Unipesa provides financial infrastructure as a service for African fintech — offering white-label technology, ready-to-go integrations, and a proven track record of operational scalability across 21 countries.

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Unipesa ecosystem

Unipesa supports local payment companies, banks, financial operators, and government agencies across African region. Acting as a technical partner, Unipesa handles platform deployment, operations, and integrations, while partners focus on business development, growth, and scale.

The company operates on a transactional revenue share model and connects all partners into a unified financial network.

Unipesa is a fintech solutions developer with a fully in-house–built portfolio of products. Each product is delivered as a white-label platform, branded for every client and empowering them to run their own fintech business or unlock new opportunities and revenue streams within their existing business.

Our mission is to empower businesses in Africa with seamless financial operations.

Unipesa is positioned to become a global financial infrastructure provider in the digital B2B services space, aiming to expand its footprint to over 40 African countries and beyond.

Facilitate fintech startups
with diverse advanced
technologies.

Build a reliable cross-border
network of fintech companies
across the region.

Upgrade conventional
financial institutions through
digital transformation.

Digitize diverse
government functions.

Business model

  • Partners do the business, providing services, powered by Unipesa, to its B2B clients.
  • Partners interact with local regulators, banks, telecom operators; acquire licenses, clients contracts; develop their businesses on their native markets with their business networks.
  • Unipesa takes care of about all the technical questions and operationson behalf of the partners.
  • Unipesa is not a single payment company, but a network of independent, self developing companies, powered and united by Unipesa.

Structure

Fintech Technology Partner
Independent fintech companies with local presence
  • Local PSP in Kenya
  • Local PSP in Nigeria
  • Lending MFI in Ghana
  • Pan-african PSP
  • Digital Bank in Angola
  • Money Wallet in DRC
  • SACCO organization in Uganda
  • Agents Network in Kenya, Burundi
  • other 20+ partners
2B / B2C clients empowered by enhanced digital financial services
  • E-Commerce
  • Entertainment
  • Hospitality
  • Taxi drivers
  • POS Agents
  • Individuals
  • Any other SMEs

Unipesa wasn’t built as a fintech product. It was built to solve a structural problem. Across the African region, businesses were ready to grow — but the infrastructure wasn’t. Payments were fragmented, integrations were slow, compliance was opaque, and time-to-market was measured in quarters.

We knew there had to be a better way.

We focused on the foundation: a platform that local operators could rely on — whether they were launching a PSP, building an agent network, or digitizing government payments. No-code, fully compliant, and already integrated with the key regional channels.

Today, Unipesa supports a growing ecosystem of entrepreneurs, banks, and institutions. And our job is simple: take care of the backend — so our partners can take care of the future.

Pavel Laptev
Chief Product Officer

Our leadership

Felix Baranov

Chairman

  • Ex. CEO of Rostelecom subsidiary.
  • Ex. CEO of Finam holding.
  • Ex. CSO of Qiwi.
  • MBA. In fintech since 1990.

Pavel Laptev

Chief Product Officer

  • Ex. PM at Exness payments.
  • Ex. PM at Walletone.
  • 16+ years in fintech as Product manager, Project manager, Business system analyst.

Vas Raku

Chief Commercial Officer

  • 10+ years of experience in payments and financial services.
  • Proven track record as a Commercial Director in African markets.

Manish Kumar

Chief Accounting Officer

  • 14+ years of experience in finance and accounting in manufacturing, distribution and IT sectors in India and UAE (Dubai).

Evgeny Protopopov

Chief Technology Officer

  • Over 20 years of technical leadership in payments, architecture design, and fintech innovation.

Raphael Ndegwa

Head of Business Development

  • 12+ years of developing payment businesses and relationships in Africa.

Let’s build something together

We’ll walk you through the platform, answer your questions, and show you how fast you can launch with Unipesa.