Companies · Pharma

BoyaWinter 2022Active

Nairobi · Nairobi County, Kenya · Pharma · founded 2022 · https://boyahq.com/

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Boya — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
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Top 85%
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Latest stage · inferred

Boya: limited disclosed financing to assess.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page.

Where it sits in Pharma

Boya is one of 310 Pharma companies tracked from Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya, on record since 2022. By capital raised it ranks in the long tail (ahead of 16% of sector peers), and in the long tail by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

Corporate Expense cards and Spend management for businesses in Africa

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows

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Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

No round amounts on record to chart.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps

No staged rounds to sequence.

Modeled valuation trajectory
Base estimate est.
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Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size. Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Financing rhythm
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How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 310 companies in Pharma. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages)
This company
Sector median$6.4M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages)
This company
Sector median$62.5M

Raised more than 16% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 16% of peers (estimate).

Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

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Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Registry & provenance

Boya is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

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AeroRx Therapeutics, Inc.PharmaSeries A$10.4M$30.7Msame sector
Affect Therapeutics, Inc.PharmaSeries B$24.6M$232.7Msame sector
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Frequently asked
What does Boya do and where is it based?
Boya operates in the Pharma sector, based in Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya. Corporate Expense cards and Spend management for businesses in Africa
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