Liquify secures £1.1m seed funding led by Future Africa to expand its African trade finance platform
Future Africa led the seed round to help Liquify expand its invoice financing marketplace across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Liquify operates an invoice financing marketplace that connects African small and medium enterprises with global capital markets. The platform automates onboarding, credit checks, and settlement to convert export invoices into working capital.
Liquify has raised £1.1m in a seed round led by Future Africa to scale its digital invoice financing marketplace across Sub-Saharan Africa. The round drew participation from Launch Africa, 54 Collective, Digital Africa, Equitable Ventures, and several strategic angel investors, alongside a debt facility extension from Emerald Africa.
The capital will support the expansion of the company hub in Ghana through targeted hiring across product, technology, and customer-success teams. Liquify also plans to push into new Anglophone and Francophone markets while upgrading its artificial intelligence infrastructure for due diligence and credit scoring.
Since its beta launch in late 2024, the platform has facilitated more than 150 transactions, amounting to $4m in financed trade. The latest funding provides the resources needed to accelerate growth and narrow the trade finance gap for regional exporters.
From the founder
"We built Liquify to unlock the $120 billion trade-finance gap holding back Africa’s most dynamic SMEs. This seed round – as well the incredible people joining our team – validates our vision. With our fully digital, AI-powered platform, exporters can turn unpaid invoices into same-day cash, while global investors gain access to a new untapped class. Since its beta launch in late 2024, Liquify has facilitated over 150 transactions, totaling $4 million in trade financed. With funding secured, we embark on our next chapter: deepening our technology, growing our team in Ghana, and scaling across Sub-Saharan Africa."
Nadya Yaremenko
Co-founder & CEO at Liquify
Use of funds
- 01Grow the team
- 02Expand into international markets
- 03Continue product development