ZELF

https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/zelf-co

If you want to support us on our journey, you're welcome to our upcoming page.

The launch day is June 24. All makers will be there to answer your questions. And we will give our supporters 1 year if ZELF Premium for free YAY

ZELF continues to grow with cosmic speed!

The goal for ZELF now is to onboard 1m users within 12 months.

Our global ambition is supported by a growing number of new accounts from around the world and we are looking for local bank partners globally, particularly in South-East Asia and Africa.

Isabel Woodford wrote with in-depth overview of our mission, traction and future plans in Sifted

https://sifted.eu/articles/gen-z-messenger-banking-zelf/

"Friction-free banking

There’s no doubting Zelf’s speed.

It takes seconds — literally — to open an account. After clicking on a launch link, a new conversation with Zelf pop opens on WhatsApp or Facebook and promptly issues users their own IBAN account number and virtual card, which they can transfer money to and ‘top up’."

We were very excited that first cards have already reached top Zelfers in France and Spain!

Highest priority was given to the core of our community — leaderboard winners, our partners, ambassadors and advisors.

The cards are ready to be used online and can be topped up via IBAN.

Mike Butcher, editor-at-large in TechCrunch covered our story:

"Lightweight ‘banking via messaging’ services are getting Gen Z"

buzzhttps://techcrunch.com/2020/05/26/light-weight-banking-via-messaging-services-are-getting-gen-z-buzz/

We started looking for fundraising.

On the 5th of May, we celebrated 100,000 cards ordered in less than one month into our launch campaign.

ZELF has built a solid community of early advocates across Discord - https://discord.gg/gV8s8ft as a banking solution for gamers and Gen Z tech enthusiasts.

With engagement to above-average we continued to grow all organically. People were using their referral links and invited friends.

On April 9th Zelf opened sign ups for the cards worldwide.

With the most lightweight banking experience to date, it will take just under 30 sec to onboard, receive a Mastercard debit card, and begin sending and receiving money through almost any messenger's interface.

The card will easily connect to Apple Pay and Google Pay for online and offline purchases.

The team focused on launching their own neobank brand name – ZELF.

There is no one “household name” for European or global payment provider for sending money electronically cross-border and cross-currency and ZELF wanted to be the one.

Their mission was to make money as instant as messaging and bring payments in the context - we agree how much I owe you in the messenger and I go to my banking app to execute the transaction.

Finally the team partnered with Treezor BaaS to launch a messenger bank, first in Europe.

Elliot and his team of 12 people are focused on building a chatbot banking platform with the fastest onboarding and bootstrapped by white-label licensing deals.

Most notable one was the MTS Cashback Lite Mastercard (MTS Bank, subsidiary of the largest Eastern European telco 107m+ users).

Elliot Goykhman, CEO & founder of ZELF, has led many high-street banks through digital transformation. Though, it always felt piecemeal, because a fully digital onboarding could all of a sudden take a wild detour into the dark world legacy systems.

In 2017, Elliot left his executive role with a goal to create a banking solution with easy access to money and pain-free onboarding.

The founding team followed Elliot to focus on a chatbot banking platform and bring value to the younger crowd frustrated with traditional banking.