【非洲科技·尼日利亚】蒂蒙 (Timon) 处理了4700万美元，但其创始人面临签证障碍。

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Timon (蒂蒙) 是一家为常旅客发行卡片的初创公司，其联合创始人 Oluwatomi Ayorinde (奥卢瓦托米·阿约林德) 在2016年深切体会到这一点。当时，他之前的初创

由于美国驻拉各斯（Lagos）大使馆的积压，面试窗口期所剩无几，阿约林德（Ayorinde）及其团队紧急寻求帮助。据阿约林德（Ayorinde）称，曾投资这家初创公司的风险平台（



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Building a $47 million fintech to fix cross-border payments for African travellers is a massive feat. But getting past embassy visas? That’s a bug no line of code can fix. Before launching Timon, co-founders Oluwatomi Ayorinde and Chizaram Ucheaga spent years navigating the frustrations of travelling on a Nigerian passport—from rationing physical cash envelopes in India to watching bank cards fail in Paris. They channeled those headaches into building an independent multi-currency travel card, s

Securing an invitation to Y Combinator (YC), the Silicon Valley startup accelerator, is a milestone for any startup founder—until the logistical hurdle of securing a US visa threatens to derail it. 

Oluwatomi Ayorinde, co-founder of Timon, a startup that issues cards to frequent travellers, learnt this the hard way in 2016 when his previous startup, Mobile Forms, was invited to interview for YC’s California headquarters. It was his first time in the US, and he had very little time to prepare.

Facing a backlog at the American Embassy in Lagos that threatened to run out of time for their interview window, Ayorinde and his team scrambled for help. Investor Kola Aina of Ventures Platform, which had backed the startup, intervened, according to Ayorinde, reaching out to contacts who could help expedite their visa interviews at the US embassy. The embassy eventually granted the visas with days to spare. 

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