About MontariPay

Keeping Nigeria's drivers moving.

We built MontariPay for the moments when your engine quits on Third Mainland Bridge — and waiting two weeks for a bank loan isn't an option. We finance the repair so you keep the keys, the income, and the schedule that depends on you.

Founded: 2024 · LagosBacked by: CardinalStone · Ventures Platform · Future AfricaTeam: 38 across Lagos, Abuja & Nairobi

Why we exist

In Nigeria, the family car isn't a luxury — it's a salary. When a Toyota Corolla stops, an Uber driver loses ₦12,000 a day. A nurse skips a shift. A market trader pays a ₦3,500 keke fare instead of breaking even.

The repair quote arrives within the hour. The cash to pay it doesn't. So drivers do what drivers always do — pay friends, sell things, take loan-shark money at 20% a month. The car comes back, but the financial hole is deep enough to last a year.

MontariPay closes that gap. An approval, a transfer to your bank, a schedule of repayments that fits your week. Done by 6pm so you're back on the road tomorrow.

How we're different

We're not a bank that decided to add a vehicle product. We're a vehicle company that learnt how to lend. Every part of the experience — the application form, the workshop network, the aging buckets, the recovery script — was designed for the specific shape of vehicle-repair finance in Nigeria.

The result: median time to disbursement is 38 minutes, our 30-day default rate is under 2%, and 96% of borrowers complete their repayment schedule on time.

The day we shipped the first loan, a driver in Yaba had his ₦220k repair quote paid before noon. He texted: "Una don save my month." That's the bar.

Kemi AdisaCo-founder & CEO
What we believe

Four principles. No exceptions.

The rules we wrote on the wall during week one. They still apply.

Plain language, every time

No 12-page PDFs. The terms fit on a phone screen and read like the way we talk.

Speed isn't a feature

It's the product. Median time to disbursement is 38 minutes. We will keep cutting it.

We share risk, not data

We report repayment to the credit bureaux. We never sell your data. NDPA-compliant.

Compliant by design

CBN-licensed, NDPR-registered, FCCPC-aligned. Built for the regulator from day one.

By the numbers

Six quarters in.

Receipts as of March 2026, pulled from our internal dashboard this morning.

₦2.4B+
Disbursed to date
18,400+
Repairs financed
38
Verified workshops
4
Cities live
Leadership

The people on the wall.

Drivers, builders and operators who've been moving things across this country for long enough to know what actually breaks.

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Kemi Adisa
Co-founder & CEO

Ex-Paystack growth, Wharton MBA. Spent a year running between mechanics in Surulere with cash before deciding to build the alternative.

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Tunde Balogun
Co-founder & CTO

Built credit-risk infrastructure at Carbon. Deeply skeptical of any system that doesn't survive a Tuesday in Lagos.

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Ngozi Okeke
Head of Risk

12 years in credit at Stanbic. Wrote the first iteration of our credit model on the back of a napkin during a fuel queue.

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Sade Diallo
Head of Operations

Operations lead at Bolt Nigeria. Knows every workshop within 5km of a major Lagos artery, by name.

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Adekunle Eze
Head of Workshop Network

20 years in vehicle servicing, ASNT-certified. Personally vets every workshop that joins the verified network.

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Chioma Lawal
General Counsel

Banking & finance partner at Templars. Drafted the first version of the loan agreement on a Saturday morning.

Backed by

The investors who said yes.

Long-term capital from people who understand the West-African mobility stack and the kind of patience this work needs.

CardinalStone
Ventures Platform
Future Africa
Lateral Capital
Microtraction

Want to keep moving?

Apply for a repair loan in two minutes. Pay it back on a schedule that fits your week, not someone else's spreadsheet.