Stripe acquires Nigerian startup Paystack, which enables integration of payments services using an API, sources say for $200M+ (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Stripe acquires Nigerian startup Paystack, which enables integration of payments services using an API, sources say for $200M+  —  When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies.