Mo Mbalam

Mo Mbalam, laughing, holding a microphone on stage
Fintech founder and commercial leader across credit, payments and banking APIs.

I’ve spent fifteen years building and selling financial products in Africa, as a founder and as a commercial lead at Paystack and Anchor. Now I’m building Solden, the AI finance department for growing companies.

Experience

  1. 2025–

    Solden

    Co-founder and CEO

    The AI finance department for growing companies. Solden takes on the month-end close and returns it finished, with its evidence, on the ERP a company already runs.

  2. 2024–

    Anchor YC S22

    Head of business development and partnerships

    Banking APIs for businesses across markets: virtual accounts, USD cards, payouts and bill payments. I own commercial development, from finding the right customers to bringing them live.

  3. 2023–24

    Paystack a Stripe company

    Country sales manager, Ghana

    Owned sales and merchant growth in Ghana, bringing enterprise merchants onto Paystack and working with product, legal and operations to launch them.

  4. 2017–21

    Flippify later Triva

    Co-founder and CEO

    Goal-based savings for young Ghanaians. Won DataHack4FI Ghana, raised a pre-seed round, and pitched in Berlin at Germany’s Start-up Night! Africa.

  5. 2014–18

    LendingSquare

    Founder

    Ghana’s first peer-to-peer lending marketplace, letting savers lend to borrowers directly at fairer rates than banks offered either side.

  6. 2011–14

    University of Ghana

    Accounting associate, Finance Directorate
Finance Bought Ledgers Instead of Workspaces Every finance team I’ve worked with runs on three systems: an ERP, a spreadsheet, and someone’s inbox. Read it · 2 min
  1. Just Don’t Die: Startup Survival as the Ultimate Milestone 2 min
  2. Turn chaos into startup momentum: being intentional about processes 2 min
  3. From Sales Aversion to Sales Advocate: How I Learned to Love the Lifeblood of Business 2 min
  4. Lessons from the Circle Market in Ghana 2 min
mo@mbalam.com