About Nestadia

The Problem

You can wire money, sign a mortgage, and file taxes across a border online. Yet you still cannot seamlessly buy property that way.

Nestadia is changing that.

Licensed escrow. Independent verification on the ground. Money released only against milestones verified by parties who answer to the buyer, not to us.

Launching in Ghana & KenyaBuilt for every corridor after

Our mission

Give individuals — not only institutions — the same protections when they buy property back home, so they can build wealth across borders without the flight.

Protection first

Money moves only against milestones verified by parties who answer to the buyer.

Independence

Your lawyer, engineer and escrow are independent of the seller — and of us.

Transparency

Every step, fee and payment is visible in your dashboard.

The team

Every part of this has been built before — just never together.

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Jana Bayad

Founder & CEO

Previously: HP · Humana · Best Buy Health · The Active Network

Fifteen years building revenue and customer operations, with $100M+ in cumulative digital revenue impact — including a unified e-commerce platform across 30+ countries. She has bought property across borders and manages rental properties in California, so she has seen exactly where the money, the paperwork and the trust break down.

Regulatory StrategyCommercial OperationsFundraising
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James Mensah

Senior Engineer

Zkblock, Accra · Zkrypto, Seoul · BSc Computer Science, University of Ghana

Full-stack engineer in Accra with zero-knowledge and blockchain experience — verifiable state, strict transitions, no room for an ambiguous result. James is writing Nestadia's escrow state machine, gate logic and payment rails, in the market where the first transactions close.

Platform EngineeringAPI DesignVerifiable Systems
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Eric Johannsen

Technology Advisor

Previously: CTO, Dama Financial · VP Engineering, GrowFlow · Co-author, C# 8.0 in a Nutshell

As CTO at Dama Financial he led a turnaround to profitability, a global engineering team, SOC 2 Type II certification and an exit to LeafLink — the compliance and uptime bar regulated money businesses are held to.

Payments CompliancePlatform ArchitectureEngineering Leadership
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Isabel Escobar, Ph.D.

Data Advisor

Previously: Airbnb · ServiceNow · Teradata · HP

At Airbnb she built the data pipelines behind regulatory analytics. She has also shipped a production multi-agent AI system for immigration law firms with compliance-aware routing and full data isolation per client.

Regulatory DataAI SystemsDocument Intelligence
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Yvan Nezerwe, Ph.D.

Finance Advisor

DBA in Finance · Harvard Business School, Executive Certificate in Economics

Advised two cross-border money transfer businesses in Kenya and Rwanda through to sale, researched AGOA's effect on Kenyan market returns, and spent a decade in U.S. retail financial services at LPL Financial and US Bank.

Cross-border PaymentsEast AfricaValuation & Exits
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Ready to learn more about Nestadia?

Whether you're an investor, a law firm, a developer or a buyer, we'd like to hear from you. Write to us at info@nestadia.com.