Visa infrastructure for people the system overlooked.
XOYA Technologies is AI-powered visa infrastructure for emerging-market travelers and the institutions that serve them. We were built to close the equity gap in global mobility — one validated document at a time.
The global visa system was not designed for us. It was designed for travelers who have always been assumed to be welcome — whose documents fit the templates, whose banks print the right statements, whose addresses parse in the right postal codes.
We are building for everyone else.
For the Nigerian engineer who has to prove she will come home. For the Ghanaian student whose payslip does not look like an American stub. For the Jamaican grandmother whose invitation letter does not match what the form expects.
XOYA does not simplify the system. We decode it — and put that decoding in the hands of the people who need it most.
From concierge to infrastructure.
The concierge era
Anita Itaman processes over 1,000 travel and visa transactions on inbound demand through her personal network. The volume proves the market. The process reveals the gaps — specifically, that rejection rates for emerging-market applicants are systematically inflated by fixable documentation errors.
VOYA launches
First version of the app ships. First paying users arrive. The product is lean: corridor selection, document upload, gap analysis, fix list.
Stanford Galvanizers competition
XOYA (then VOYA) wins the Stanford Galvanizers competition. Visibility opens doors.
Pre-seed close
Closes pre-seed from Resilience17 and Dotun Sulaiman. Capital deployed into AI model training and corridor expansion.
Enterprise MOUs signed
First ministry partnerships: Nigerian Ministry of Tourism (Motherland initiative), Ghana Ministry of Tourism. First enterprise integrations: ProvidusBank, Wakanow, Travelwings. First 100 transactions completed.
300 verified transactions
50+ enterprise and ministry partners. 94% approval rate across primary corridors. Team across Lagos and San Francisco.
XOYA launches
Rebrands from VOYA to XOYA. New domain (xoyavisa.io). AI-native visa infrastructure platform. Three audiences: travelers, businesses, governments.
The team behind XOYA.
Anita Itaman
Harvard Kennedy MPA, Wharton MBA. Built and ran a 1,000-transaction visa concierge business across Africa before founding XOYA.
LinkedIn →Kasi Kure
Drives strategic operations across XOYA's Lagos, London, and Houston functions.
Cynthia
Owns the operational infrastructure that moves 300+ verified applications through the system.
Afeso
Leads enterprise and ministry partnerships across Africa, Europe, and North America.
Built in public, recognized globally.
Lagos and San Francisco.
Lagos
Oriental Hotel, 3 Lekki-Epe Expressway, Victoria Island, Lagos 106104, NG
San Francisco
1540 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA