Subprocessors & Partners | Lacesse Ventures

Cross-Border Data Transfer Notice: To provide you with highly reliable and secure services, Lacesse Ventures utilizes a modern, globally distributed cloud infrastructure. By using our Services, you consent to your data being processed and stored in regions outside of Kenya, specifically in Frankfurt (Germany) and the United States, in accordance with the Kenya Data Protection Act.

Lacesse Ventures engages the following third-party entities to perform various business and engineering functions on our behalf. These partners ("Subprocessors") may have access to certain merchant and customer data solely for the purpose of fulfilling their specific infrastructure duties.

Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting

Render

Frankfurt, Germany

Primary application hosting and backend server execution for the Lacesse platform.

Koyeb

Frankfurt, Germany

Serverless hosting provider utilized for edge deployments and microservices.

Databases & Edge Caching

Neon

Frankfurt, Germany

Serverless Postgres database provider. Stores platform user data, configurations, and Duka transaction records securely.

Upstash

Frankfurt, Germany

Redis database provider used for high-speed edge caching, session management, and API rate limiting.

Storage & Content Delivery

Backblaze B2

United States

Secure object storage (S3 compatible) for Merchant digital products, file uploads, and media assets.

Cloudflare

Global Network

Content Delivery Network (CDN), DNS resolution, and core DDoS protection/firewall services.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Groq

United States

Provides ultra-low latency AI inference infrastructure powering components of Lacesse Fikra.

Hugging Face

United States

Hosts foundational and fine-tuned machine learning models accessed by our platform.

Payments & E-Commerce

Paystack

Africa / Global

Licensed Payment Service Provider. Processes all fiat payments, creates merchant subaccounts, and handles regulatory financial compliance.

Domain & Developer Analytics

HostAfrika

South Africa

Domain name registrar ensuring routing to our Kenyan TLD.

Google Search Console

United States

Provides analytics regarding web traffic and search engine indexing performance.

PyPI (Python Package Index)

United States

Hosts the Lacesse Fikra developer SDK distributions.

If you have questions regarding our data architecture or subprocessors, please contact our privacy team at [email protected].