The finance control centre for African businesses will use Rain’s payments infrastructure to power USD corporate cards for agentic transactions.
Bujeti, the finance control centre for African businesses, today announced that it has been selected as one of only five companies worldwide to join the inaugural cohort of Rain’s Agentic Startup Program. As part of the program, Bujeti will leverage Rain’s enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments.
The selection places Bujeti among a small global group chosen for its approach to modern finance infrastructure, leveraging the power of agents and AI teammates through BRAIN (Bujeti's Real-time Artificial Intelligence Network).
"Being chosen as one of five companies globally for the first cohort of Rain’s Agentic Startup Program is a strong signal of where Bujeti is headed," said Cossi Achille Arouko, CEO and Co-founder of Bujeti. "We're building an agentic finance platform, one where finance work runs itself under the controls teams have set. Card issuing is central to that, and partnering with Rain gives African companies card infrastructure that holds up to how they actually operate."
"Bujeti is putting agents to work on real finance operations, and card issuing is where that gets tested," said Sophia Goldberg, Head of Payments at Rain. "Rain supports agent-initiated transactions with controls and compliance features; that foundation provides African businesses with the confidence for their agents to pay the rest of the world."
Businesses built on Bujeti will now enjoy USD-denominated corporate cards issued by Rain, providing greater reliability and acceptance for online and offline payments across millions of merchants around the world.
Through BRAIN, its intelligence layer, the platform is moving finance operations from manual and reactive to agentic. BRAIN's Teammates Chaser, Fetch, Watchdog, and Concierge, handle document intelligence, accounts receivable, financial controls, and finance knowledge, turning a finance control centre into an agentic finance platform. Card issuing is the connective tissue. As spend moves through these corporate cards, BRAIN has the real-time signal it needs to enforce policy, flag risk, and act while Rain's issuing infrastructure gives that system a stronger foundation to run on.
Bujeti unifies expense management, corporate cards, payments automation, invoicing, multi-currency accounts, payroll, and tax management into one platform. Card issuing sits at the centre of how businesses control spend, and the partnership with Rain strengthens that core, allowing teams to get virtual and physical cards with set limits, real-time monitoring, and clean separation of funds, while finance leaders keep full visibility.
The scale behind the partnership is significant, as Bujeti's cards are now accepted at more than 175 million merchant locations worldwide, giving African businesses that pay international vendors, run global ad spend, or operate across borders a card that works wherever they do. Compliance, fraud monitoring, disputes, and reporting are handled as part of the infrastructure, and cards continue to carry configurable controls for different users and use cases, from field teams to executives.
About Bujeti
Bujeti is the finance control centre for African businesses. Over 2,000 companies use Bujeti to run their financial operations, from expense management and corporate cards to payment automation, cross-border payments, payroll, invoicing, vendors, and tax, all on one platform with full visibility and control over how money moves. Its AI layer, BRAIN (Bujeti's Real-time Artificial Intelligence Network), adds four AI Teammates that handle routine finance work automatically, so teams focus on decisions instead of busy work. Bujeti serves mid-to-large enterprises across Nigeria, Kenya, and Francophone Africa, and has raised $2M from Y Combinator (W23), Entrée Capital, Voltron Capital, Unpopular VC, and Kima Ventures.
