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Top 22 Emerging market payment companies based in Kenya
RevenueBase identified 77 emerging market payment companies headquartered in Kenya as of September 2026 and tracks 2,125 professional contacts across them, including 712 with verified work emails. Nairobi is the largest hub.
This list covers emerging market payment companies headquartered in Kenya, 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 19, 2026.
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 22 largest emerging market payment companies based in Kenya
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 504 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cellulant is Africa’s leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast-changing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 332 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We’re the leading payment services company with local know-how in building payments and business tools for Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DPO Pay allows you to get paid by shoppers worldwide, in any currency of their choice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 172 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JamboPay is an electronic payments platform that enables businesses, governments,non government organizations and individuals to securely make and receive payments over mobile…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “iPay is an award-winning, reliable, and secure real-time end-to-end payment processing and billing service provider, Authorised by the Central Bank of Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tracom Services Limited is a limited liability company incorporated in Kenya.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Riverbank Solutions Ltd is a payments technology company which provides ‘solutions’ to organizations in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It all started with an idea in 2020, built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer, B2B payments, and reduce the costs of digital fees altogether, Cashia is a digital Ecosystem…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a subsidiary of Equity Group, our capabilities have been tried and tested through the innovations and digitization we have delivered for the Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a Digital Transformation Solutions provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the future of seamless and innovative financial solutions in Kenya and Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “More than just a payment systems company, we offer business value in the areas of electronic payment, financial transaction processing solutions and services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mamlaka Hub & Spoke is a Kenyan fintech company empowering businesses across Africa with secure, scalable, and innovative digital payment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PesaKit is a last-mile Fintech and Digital commerce start-up building the future of money and commerce in step with the way people live and work in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PesaSwap is a 100% indigenous online and mobile payment solutions company based in Nairobi, Kenya, and London UK Headquartered in Nairobi, Pesaswap offers comprehensive tailor…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PesaWay is a Nairobi-based financial technology (fintech) company that provides an all-in-one payment platform for businesses across Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Rezato Africa is a licensed digital financial services provider revolutionizing cross-border payments in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ocharge is Kenya’s Most Rewarding Payments App.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2018, bitlipa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Chura connects mobile money platforms to international payment services and e-commerce platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saiba is East Africa's first fully integrated payment platform for smartphone users and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: emerging market payment 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 emerging market payment companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of emerging market payment companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name emerging market payment 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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Emerging market payment companies based in Kenya at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Kenya, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Kenya, over 77 companies.
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 emerging market payment 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Kenya whose own description of what they do matches “emerging market payment 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 emerging market payment 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 emerging market payment companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Kenya are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 712 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 19, 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.
Emerging market payment companies by metro
- Emerging market payment companies in Nairobi71
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 emerging market payment 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 emerging market payment companies are there based in Kenya?
RevenueBase identified 77 emerging market payment companies headquartered in Kenya 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?
Cellulant, headquartered in Nairobi, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most emerging market payment companies?
Nairobi leads with 71 headquartered companies, followed by Bamburi (1) and Kisumu (1).
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 712 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 77 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 19, 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.
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