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Yellowcard
Founded 2016 · 299 employees on LinkedIn · 12 known investors
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Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin infrastructure provider operating across Africa, offering cryptocurrency and payment services aimed at solving financial, regulatory, and logistical problems in emerging markets. The company serves customers and SMEs through a Pan-African network spanning multiple countries.
Also known as Yellow Card · Yellow Card Inc.
Founders & leadership
Yellowcard was founded in 2016 by Chris Maurice and Justin Poiroux.
Investors · 12
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Yellow Card is a payments infrastructure provider that enables banks, financial institutions, corporates and other businesses to access, store, send and manage stablecoins and to make payments in USD and more than 50 local currencies. Its offering is organized into two main lines: digital asset infrastructure, covering receipt and sending of funds across major stablecoins and blockchains, business and end-customer wallets, issuance of local stablecoins and yield products; and fiat payments infrastructure, covering global payments in over 50 local currencies, USD payments, USD and EUR bank accounts for customers, and card issuing for international payments.
The company positions compliance and security as a core part of the platform, listing sanctions screening, AML monitoring, Travel Rule compliance, KYB and KYC requirements, anti-terrorism, bribery and corruption controls, and transaction authorization policy management. Products are delivered through an API suite and a treasury portal.
Business model
Yellow Card sells payments and digital asset infrastructure to other businesses, delivered via an API suite and a treasury portal that customers integrate into their own money movement, treasury and liquidity operations.
Traction
The website reports more than $10 billion in processed volume, over 106 tier 1 banking and liquidity partners, support for 60+ countries and 50+ payment currencies. Visa is cited as a customer using Yellow Card for treasury operations and liquidity management.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Yellow Card presents itself as infrastructure for money movement in emerging markets, combining digital asset and fiat rails in a single platform.
Technology
The platform supports major stablecoins and blockchains, wallet infrastructure for businesses and their customers, local stablecoin issuance and yield, alongside fiat rails for local-currency and USD payments, USD/EUR account provisioning and card issuing. Compliance tooling includes sanctions screening, AML monitoring, Travel Rule support, KYB/KYC and transaction authorization policy management.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales, with the website directing prospective customers to speak with an expert, supported by developer documentation for API integration."}</parameter>
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Banks, financial institutions, corporates and other businesses that need to move money into, out of and within emerging markets.
Geography
The company states support for more than 60 countries and payments in over 50 local currencies, with an emerging-markets focus.
Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsYellow Card states that Visa leverages its platform to streamline treasury operations and enhance liquidity management, enabling cross-border money movement.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 1
primary sources listed
- yellowcard3yellowcard.io · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Yellowcard do?
- Yellow Card provides stablecoin and fiat payments infrastructure for businesses operating in emerging markets.
- Who founded Yellowcard?
- Yellowcard was founded by Chris Maurice, Justin Poiroux in 2016.
- Who are Yellowcard's investors?
- Yellowcard's investors include Atlanta Technology Angels, Blockchain Capital, Castle Island Ventures, DG Daiwa Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Pharsalus Capital, Sony Ventures Corporation and 4 more.