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Top 25 African fintech companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,755 african fintech companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 338,634 professional contacts across them, including 97,472 with verified work emails. Nigeria is the largest market and Lagos the largest hub.
This list covers african fintech companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026. Country and city lists for african fintech companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest african fintech companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 38,885 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unlocking financial technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 36,267 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 21,755 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Delivering voice, data, mobile financial services and digital products across 19 markets in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 16,636 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People deserve more from their money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 11,970 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Old Mutual Limited is a listed company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and has secondary listings on the London, Malawi, Namibia and Zimbabwe stock exchanges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 10,605 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 8,147 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equity Group Holdings Plc is a Pan-African financial services holding company listed at the Nairobi Securities Exchange, Uganda Securities Exchange, and Rwanda Stock Exchange.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4,826 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Airtel Payments Bank is one of India’s fastest‑growing digital banks, built to deliver safe, smart, and simple banking through powerful, intuitive digital platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 4,369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At JS Bank, we're driving Pakistan's financial future with a mix of innovation, inclusivity, and award-winning product and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 4,122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SomosNaranjaX y nos une algo grande: trabajar por la inclusión y educación financiera de toda la región.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3,834 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moniepoint Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3,806 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're making Africa the first cashless continent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,950 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Telenor Bank and Easypaisa are at the forefront of revolutionizing fintech in Pakistan by delivering innovative, cutting-edge technology solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,856 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mynt is the first and only duacorn in the Philippines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,400 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AMAN Holding, one of Raya Holding Subsidiaries is a leading Egyptian Fintech Company that provides easy financial solutions to its customers using smart technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,307 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “M-KOPA is a UK-headquartered emerging market fintech that provides affordable smartphone and e-motorbike financing and smartphone embedded digital financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,913 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,836 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wing Bank, the Bank for every Cambodian, has revolutionized access to financial services since 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,788 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mukuru is one of the largest money transfer providers in Africa and a leading Next Gen Financial Services Platform that offers affordable and reliable financial services to the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,605 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maya is the all-in-one money platform that is bringing Filipinos bolder ways to master their money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,509 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ant International is a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,499 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ameriabank is a leading financial and technology company in Armenia, a major contributor to the Armenian economy, with assets exceeding AMD 1 trillion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,384 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Upgrade helps customers move in the right direction with affordable and responsible financial products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1,367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MobiKwik is India's leading FinTech platform, offering a wide range of financial products for both consumers and merchants, including payments, digital credit, and investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1,253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Baobab is the leading digital financial inclusion group focusing on serving individuals, micro and small businesses in Africa and China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: african fintech companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names african fintech companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of african fintech companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name african fintech companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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African fintech companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among african fintech companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for african fintech companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “african fintech companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names african fintech companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among african fintech companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 97,472 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
African fintech companies by location
22 lists · largest firstEvery African fintech companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- African fintech companies based in Nigeria576
- African fintech companies based in the United States263
- African fintech companies based in Kenya221
- African fintech companies based in India202
- African fintech companies based in South Africa169
- African fintech companies based in Brazil116
- African fintech companies based in the United Kingdom114
- African fintech companies based in Ghana83
- African fintech companies based in Uganda71
- African fintech companies based in the United Arab Emirates57
- African fintech companies based in Tanzania46
- African fintech companies based in France42
- African fintech companies based in Indonesia40
- African fintech companies based in Senegal38
- African fintech companies based in Zambia38
- African fintech companies based in Canada37
- African fintech companies based in Pakistan37
- African fintech companies based in Mexico32
- African fintech companies based in Türkiye28
- African fintech companies based in Argentina27
- African fintech companies based in the Philippines25
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names african fintech companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many african fintech companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,755 african fintech companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
FIS, headquartered in Jacksonville, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most african fintech companies?
Nigeria leads with 576 companies, followed by the United States (263) and Kenya (221). Every african fintech companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most african fintech companies?
Lagos leads with 204 headquartered companies, followed by Nairobi (200) and London (80).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 97,472 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,755 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.