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title: "Why Collect Africa shut down"
description: "Collect Africa, a Nigerian payments platform for SMEs, shut down on August 31, 2025 after four years of operation. This was framed as a deliberate strategic pivot rather than a failure: founders Abraham Ojes and Wale Martins redirected the team fully to their new stablecoin-based platform, Autospend, which had already launched in early 2025."
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published_at: "2026-07-31T17:41:07.836Z"
updated_at: "2026-07-31T17:41:07.836Z"
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# Why Collect Africa shut down

Collect Africa, a Nigerian payments platform for SMEs, shut down on August 31, 2025 after four years of operation. This was framed as a deliberate strategic pivot rather than a failure: founders Abraham Ojes and Wale Martins redirected the team fully to their new stablecoin-based platform, Autospend, which had already launched in early 2025.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Graveyard](/graveyard)
- [Collect Africa](/graveyard/collect-africa)

## Summary

Here lies Collect Africa. For four years it let Nigerian SMEs collect payments across transfers, POS, QR codes and links from one dashboard. Its founders found a bigger bet in stablecoins and closed it on purpose, redirecting every hand to Autospend.

Collect Africa, a Nigerian payments platform for SMEs, shut down on August 31, 2025 after four years of operation. This was framed as a deliberate strategic pivot rather than a failure: founders Abraham Ojes and Wale Martins redirected the team fully to their new stablecoin-based platform, Autospend, which had already launched in early 2025.

## Product history

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Fate | Sunset |
| Primary cause | AcquisitionStrategyChange |
| Stage at shutdown | Pre-seed |
| Lifespan in days | 1673 |

## Autopsy report

## What the product attempted

A single-dashboard payments platform letting Nigerian SMEs accept bank transfers, POS, QR codes, payment links and direct debits.

## What worked

Processed over $4 million in payments across 50,000+ transactions for roughly 5,000 registered businesses, with about $5,000 in monthly revenue and 25% annual growth, funded by $125,000 from ODX and $10,000 from GreenHouse Lab.

## What happened

After four years building Collect Africa, the founders identified a larger opportunity in stablecoin-based cross-border money movement, launched Autospend in early 2025, and ultimately shut down Collect Africa on August 31, 2025 to focus resources entirely on the new venture.

## Sources

- [Collect Africa shuts down to make way for Stablecoin-focused Autospend](https://thecondia.com/collect-africa-shutdown/?ref=startupgraveyard.africa): The Condia
- [Collect Africa Announces Plans to Shutdown as Founders Pivot to Stablecoin Platform Autosend](https://www.tekedia.com/collect-africa-announces-plans-to-shutdown-as-founders-pivot-to-stablecoin-platform-autosend/): Tekedia

## Related pages

- [Collect Africa alternatives](/collect-africa/alternatives)
- [Liners Graveyard](/graveyard)

## Access and citation

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