About Sparkle Commerce
We're building the commerce rails
Africa deserves.
Bank-native heritage
Born inside Sparkle Microfinance Bank.
Sparkle Commerce isn't a startup that grafted a payment processor onto a Shopify clone. We're the commerce arm of Sparkle Microfinance Bank — built from day one on the bank's settlement rails.
That means same-day Naira payouts, payment methods that already live in your customers' pockets, and an operations team that thinks like a bank — not like a marketplace SaaS.
Five years from bank to commerce platform.
2021
Sparkle Microfinance Bank founded
A digital bank built for African SMEs from day one.
2023
Commerce team formed
We started prototyping a commerce layer on bank rails.
2024
Private beta
First merchants onboarded across fashion, food and beauty.
2025
Multi-tenant GA
Custom domains, theme builder, subscriptions shipped.
2026
Public launch
Opening signups across Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and beyond.
You are here
Three things, repeated.
Bank-grade trust
We hold ourselves to bank standards — because Sparkle Microfinance Bank already does. Settlement, compliance, audit logs.
Africa-first defaults
Naira pricing, bank transfer, USSD, WhatsApp — what's standard for us is bolted on everywhere else.
Merchant-obsessed
Every feature ships only after a real merchant has used it in production. No fake personas, no theoretical use cases.
A small team. Lots of merchants.
Headquartered in Lagos. Engineers, designers, and merchant-success operators.
Ife Adeyemi
Founder & CEO
Tunde Okafor
Head of Engineering
Chimamanda U.
Head of Design
Adebola K.
Head of Merchant Success
Nneka I.
Head of Finance
Femi A.
Head of Partnerships
Aisha B.
Lead PM
Damilola E.
Lead Engineer
One last thing.
Start selling like you mean it.
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