We’re Neil and Paul, Co-Founders of Coda Payments. Ask us Anything!

Hi TIA community!

We are Neil Davidson and Paul Leishman, two of the co-founders of Coda Payments. Codapay is a multi-channel payment gateway with coverage across Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand: we enable digital content providers to collect payment from their customers using carrier billing, bank transfer, cash payment at convenience store, e-wallet, and game vouchers. Our payment channel partners are companies like Indosat, Maxis, Globe, and M1, and our merchant partners include Baidu, Huawei, Garena, and more. We also operate Codashop, a consumer-facing digital distribution platform for gift cards and game vouchers. More than 400,000 customers have made over 2 million purchases using Codapay to date.

Before starting Coda we worked in London at the GSMA, the mobile industry association and helped telcos start payment e-money payment services across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Ideas for what to ask us about:

• Working with telcos (hint: it’s as hard as you think)
• The payments landscape in Southeast Asia (we’ve written a bunch of articles about this)
• Scaling a startup across multiple countries in Southeast Asia
• Japanese investors (we have three)
• Moving to Southeast Asia and living out of a suitcase for 8 months

Ask us anything!

Note from Daniel, TIA’s community manager:
The host may choose at his/her preference to not answer particular questions. The AMA is moderated by the community managers, so let’s keep the questions friendly. 🙂

Read more about Coda Payments here:

Coda Payments scores $2.3 million to make mobile payments without credit cards a cinch

Coda Payments partners with top telcos in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Singapore

Here’s a new way to buy from Steam sales – just use your phone bill