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When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project, and eventually found a startup.
That startup, Borderless, is now helping Africans in the diaspora collectively invest in startups and real estate back home. Since launching in beta last year, the U.K.-based platform has processed over $500,000 in transactions.
“The diaspora sends billions of dollars in remittances, but very little of it goes into productive assets,” Kinvi said. “We think that there is a world where, if we can bring the right collective to the right type of investment opportunities, it’ll make it a lot easier for them.”
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By 2022, Kinvi had left Stripe, where he had transitioned into a product and growth role and later spent a year at Paystack, another Stripe subsidiary, helping scale financial partnerships across Africa.
When he returned to the problem that had formed Hoaq, he built a tool that digitized everything from onboarding to disbursement. What began as an internal solution soon gained outside interest. Other collectives wanted access, not just for startup deals but for real estate and other assets.
Today, Borderless provides the back-end infrastructure for diaspora collectives, allowing them to onboard members, accept cross-border payments, and deploy capital securely.
