Beyond Payments:
Building Bridges to Prosperity
At Cellulant, we’re more than a payments company: we’re bridge-builders. We connect companies to their ambitions. By simplifying how people pay and get paid, we unlock growth, open markets, and connect communities to prosperity.
Vision
To create a connected world where businesses move money as easily as they share ideas.
Mission
To deliver seamless, secure, and innovative payment solutions
for businesses.
Our Story
Across Africa, payments are more than transactions. They are gateways to prosperity, connecting people, businesses and communities to opportunities and growth.
From enabling a logistics company in Lusaka to pay suppliers across borders, to enabling a hospitality brand in Lagos to scale effortlessly, to supporting an airline in Nairobi to reconcile payments from multiple platforms, Cellulant is the bridge that makes it all possible.
Through trusted technology and customer-centric innovation, we build connections that inspire progress, strengthen economies and create lasting impact.
Since 2003, our transformative journey has been defined by relentless innovation, ecosystem collaboration, bold adaptation and an unshakable belief in improving lives through seamless, people-centred payments.
Our Journey -
A History of Innovation
We approached banks to explore alternative billing methods and discovered a bigger issue: banks struggled to serve their retail customers digitally. That insight sparked our first pivot.
We built a platform that gave bank customers access to simple services like checking account balances; something basic, but revolutionary at the time.
That instinct to listen, innovate, and solve has been in our DNA from the beginning. It's what drove us to onboard and power digital banking experiences for over 60 banks across Africa in a short while and what still fuels every product we build today.
That year, Cellulant was a Top-10 finalist (of 453 companies) in the Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards, held in Kigali, Rwanda
For this achievement, we were recognised as the inaugural top medium-sized company in Kenya in the KPMG Top 100 medium-sized company awards.
We also began to advance a converged eco-system that would connect Banks, Merchants, Mobile Network Operators and the consumer to create a single one-stop-shop for a seamless mobile commerce experience.
By this time Cellulant’s payment network connected 50+ banks and 40 mobile operators, touching 40 million end-users.
The round was led by TPG Growth’s The Rise Fund (making its first Africa investment) alongside Satya Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Velocity, and Progression Africa.
By 2018, Cellulant’s payments platform was live in 11 countries, serving about 40 million users and 120+ financial partners. Key markets included Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi and Liberia.
In 2019, Cellulant rebranded Mula to “Tingg,” relaunching it as an all-in-one payments super app. Tingg integrated services like bill pay, merchant payments, lending, group investments and even e-commerce orders into one platform across eight African markets.
Under new leadership, Cellulant unveiled a refreshed brand identity and platform convergence in mid-2021 – aligning the corporate brand with the Tingg product, and affirming its mission to provide a one-stop digital payments platform for Africa.
The Legacy
of the Brave 6
In 2019, we lost six of our own, colleagues and friends, in the Riverside terrorist attack in Nairobi. Their names, stories, and the joy they brought into our lives remain woven into the fabric of who we are.
To honour their memory, we’ve committed to a legacy of service. Each year, we show up for our communities—mentoring youth, supporting schools, donating to hospitals, and stepping in where we’re needed most. These acts of service aren’t just tradition; they’re how we keep their spirit alive.
Their legacy grounds us. It reminds us of what truly matters and inspires us to lead with empathy, purpose, and heart.
