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BitPesa

Finance — Send Money to Africa - Cheaper and Faster [Tech]
FinancePartly defensible · data moat (moderate)saasest. 2015
— Unverified
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 28, 2026
Pulse 13.5 · 2/4
13.5
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-24.8
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Liveness is unverified — no conclusive probe observation exists for the recorded URL. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-24.8) — observed activity is receding.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 28, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 24% of 17 probesavg response 1672 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
bitpesa.co
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
#354,840
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

BitPesa's site could not be verifiably probed when we last probed it on Aug 28, 2026, so its status is unverified — we do not guess. Its Pulse Index is 13.5 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Azimofinancesimilar100%44.3+9.6● live
Aspirationfinancesimilar88%21.10.0→ redirected
TransferGofinancesimilar86%47.20.0● live
Khaltifinancesimilar78%45.50.0● live
WazirXfinancesimilar75%47.20.0● live
Uphold - Buy and Sell Digital Currenciesfinancesimilar75%0.00.0■ inactive
Qoinpalfinancesimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Bitpandafinancesimilar75%48.60.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-28 00:30Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare2206cf_block
2026-08-19 14:25Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare1141cf_block
2026-08-11 00:58Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare1130cf_block
2026-08-08 06:55Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare865cf_block
2026-08-05 19:12Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare1849cf_block
2026-07-30 18:26Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare1052cf_block
2026-07-23 09:53Z202bitpesa.cocloudflare2054alive
2026-07-18 09:02Z202bitpesa.cocloudflare2267alive
2026-07-11 09:15Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare3625cf_block
2026-07-04 13:11Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare562cf_block
2026-06-23 14:20Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare1727cf_block
2026-06-21 17:25Z202bitpesa.cocloudflare1868alive
2026-06-21 17:25Z202bitpesa.cocloudflare1433alive
2026-06-20 05:14Z403bitpesa.cocloudflare1628cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · BitPesa · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/bitpesa · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.