Startup profile · Apr 2026
How Kenya's Pretium is bridging the blockchain ecosystem with mobile money & banking rails
Connecting stablecoin infrastructure to M-Pesa and banking networks for everyday payments in Kenya.
Stablecoin infra with instant fiat settlement across 7+ markets — wallets, developer APIs, and autonomous agents that pay on your behalf.
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Give your AI assistants the ability to send money, pay bills, and settle invoices across Africa — with programmable spend policies that keep you in control.
Provision an agent via Pretium and connect it to your AI workflow through MCP or REST API.
Define per-transaction limits, daily caps, and monthly budgets. Agents auto-approve within bounds.
Send fiat to mobile money, paybills, bank accounts, or stablecoins to any wallet — autonomously.
Max per-txn, daily & monthly limits with auto-approve thresholds.
Native tools for Cursor, Claude, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant.
M-Pesa, Airtel Money, paybills, till numbers, and bank transfers.
Send USDT/USDC on Celo, Base, and BNB from agent balances.
AI agents schedule and execute recurring bill payments automatically.
KES, UGX, NGN and more — one agent, many African corridors.
From consumer wallets to developer APIs and autonomous AI agents — Pretium covers the full payment stack.
A single API for USDT / USDC ↔ FIAT liquidity in 7+ African markets. No pre-funding, instant settlement, and competitive fees.
API documentationPay with stablecoins anywhere, anytime. Cross-border transfers, merchant payments, and bill settlements.
Get the appLightweight embeddable widget for merchants to accept crypto payments in under 2 minutes. No-code integration.
Checkout docsProgrammable payment agents for AI workflows. Register agents, set spend policies, and let your AI pay bills, send money, and settle invoices autonomously across Africa.
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Instant settlements, multi-market access, and compliance-first infrastructure — so you can focus on building.
Payments settled instantly across African markets with seamless transactions.
One API, multiple markets. Launch and operate across multiple African countries.
Launch and scale instantly without locking capital in destination countries.
Dedicated support team available around the clock for integration and transactions.
Partner with licensed PSPs ensuring every transaction operates within regulated frameworks.
Fast, hassle-free API integration — go live quickly with no heavy engineering.
A step-by-step journey from discovery call to production — designed to make integrating Pretium seamless and frictionless.
Book a DemoConnect with our team to explore how Payments, Checkout, or Agentic APIs can support your use case.
Straightforward onboarding with fast, secure, and fully compliant verification for businesses and individuals.
Step-by-step guidance, detailed documentation, and dedicated tech support for fast go-live.
Coverage from Africa's leading tech, finance, and ecosystem partners.
Startup profile · Apr 2026
Connecting stablecoin infrastructure to M-Pesa and banking networks for everyday payments in Kenya.
Feb 2025
Nairobi 2026
Business & economy
Community · Jan 2025
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Pretium is a ai-powered payment platform that enables cross-border transfers, merchant payments, and bill settlements across Africa using stablecoins — now with agentic payments for AI-driven automation.
Agentic Payments let AI agents autonomously send money, pay bills, and settle invoices on your behalf. You define spend policies — per-transaction limits, daily caps, and monthly budgets — and agents execute within those bounds via MCP or REST API.
Download the Pretium App from the Google Play Store, integrate via our Payment API, or connect AI agents through our Agent API.
Pretium operates across 7+ African markets including Kenya (KES), Uganda (UGX), and Nigeria (NGN), with USDT/USDC liquidity on Celo, Base, and BNB networks.
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