# Eazipay

> Eazipay is a Lagos-based payroll and payment automation platform that lets African businesses run payroll, remit taxes and statutory contributions, and pay their teams in about five minutes. Founded in 2021 and backed by Y Combinator (W22), it also offers payroll APIs for banks and neobanks and financial-wellness tools such as early wage access for workers.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Lagos, Nigeria
- **Founders:** Asher Adeniyi (Co-Founder & CEO), Kingsley Michael (Co-Founder), Efosa Uwoghiren (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 21-27
- **Products:** Eazipay Payroll, Payroll API, Employee Payments & Compliance, Financial Wellness / Early Wage Access
- **Notable:** Selected for Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch, Grew from ~10 businesses to hundreds within months of launch, Reduced a full payroll run to roughly five minutes

## Products & services

- **Eazipay Payroll** — Cloud payroll software that processes salaries, taxes, pension and statutory deductions - a full payroll run in about five minutes.
- **Payroll API** — Payroll infrastructure that neobanks and commercial banks embed to offer payroll to their business customers, extending reach to tens of thousands of SMEs.
- **Employee Payments & Compliance** — Automated salary payments plus remittance of up to eight payroll payment types, from tax and pension to insurance.
- **Financial Wellness / Early Wage Access** — Tools that let workers access earned wages before payday and improve financial wellbeing.

## Achievements

- Selected for Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch
- Grew from ~10 businesses to hundreds within months of launch
- Reduced a full payroll run to roughly five minutes
- Built payroll API adopted by banks/neobanks
- Reports serving thousands of businesses across Nigeria

## Latest updates

- **2022-03** — Featured among Nigerian startups in YC's Winter 2022 batch at Demo Day.
- **2023** — Expanded into financial-wellness and early wage access for employees.
- **2025** — Positioned as a leading payroll platform in Nigeria with reported 10,000+ businesses.

## Links

- Website: https://myeazipay.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/myeazipay
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/myeazipay
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/myeazipay

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Last updated: 2026-07-31