A card issuing API platform for African fintechs and banks to launch Mastercard or Visa virtual and physical cards for customers, including multi-currency support.

Bridgecard Product Overview

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Best For

  • Nigerian fintechs
  • Nigerian banks

What It Does Well

  • Card issuing APIs
  • Virtual cards

Things to Check

  • Visa availability
  • Mastercard availability

About Bridgecard

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Bridgecard is a card issuing infrastructure platform for African fintech companies and financial institutions that need to launch Mastercard or Visa-branded virtual and physical card programs for their customers.

Key capabilities include:

  • Card issuing APIs that partners can integrate to create and manage card products, with the goal of getting started quickly
  • Virtual and physical cards that carry a Mastercard or Visa logo for customer spending
  • Global card acceptance to support cross-border payments and access to international online services
  • Multi-currency support for card products in USD, GBP, and EUR

Available on Web and via API.

Designed for B2B2C use cases, it serves fintechs and banks across Africa that want to issue cards to end users who need international payment capabilities.

Notable in the African fintech market context, it was founded in 2021 and participated in Y Combinator (Summer 2022), and it has supported card programs for clients across multiple African countries.

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Jun 4, 2026

As a fintech serving African users, we needed a reliable way to issue both virtual and physical Mastercard and Visa cards without months of integration headaches.

Bridgecard Funding History

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Bridgecard has raised $570K across 2 recorded funding events. The latest was Seed in Sep 2022.

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$570K
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Frequently Asked Questions About Bridgecard

Bridgecard is a card-issuing provider that gives APIs for you to issue virtual cards and physical cards to your users in Nigeria and Africa at large. You simply have to sign up and then request access to our environment. Once you’re done testing, you can start to issue Mastercard or VISA cards to your users.

You can sign up for a sandbox environment to test the card issuing APIs for free, though live pricing typically requires contacting their sales team for tailored business rates.

Bridgecard operates primarily across Africa, supporting card issuance in over 20-22 countries, including major markets like Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, Angola, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

You can sign up for the card issuing service by visiting the Bridgecard Registration Page.

Bridgecard is best suited for African fintechs, startups, and businesses needing to issue Mastercard or Visa-branded virtual and physical dollar/naira cards.

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