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Top 25 Emerging market payment platforms based in South Africa

Name: Emerging market payment platforms based in South Africa
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026 97 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 97 emerging market payment platforms headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 5,104 professional contacts across them, including 2,166 with verified work emails and 129 with mobile numbers. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers emerging market payment platforms headquartered in South Africa, 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 1, 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.

How to read this list RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 1, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

97Companies

5,104Contacts tracked

2,166Verified emails

129Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest emerging market payment platforms based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 97 emerging market payment platforms based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 1, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to emerging market payment platforms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Mukuru	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	5,001-10,000	1,775 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 1, 2026
2	Flash Group	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	501-1,000	807 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A connected economy where no one is limited.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
3	Momo From MTN	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	10001+	500 contacts →
	Partial evidence “MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
4	JUMO	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	201-500	214 contacts →
	Strong evidence “JUMO is a financial technology company that partners with banks, MNOs and other e-commerce players to deliver progressive financial choices to customers in emerging markets across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
5	Carry1st	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	176 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Carry1st is a leading consumer fintech platform, helping global brands unlock hard-to-reach markets by enabling local payments, boosting digital sales, and simplifying settlements…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
6	Stitch	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	143 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Stitch payments solutions help businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, enabling them to deliver a better user experience and to optimize operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
7	Connect Group South Africa	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	136 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Connect Group of companies provides retail merchants with fintech solutions that connect them to cash management, quick access to business funding, card payments and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
8	JABU	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	201-500	121 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “JABU (YC S21) is transforming cash management and digital financial services across Southern Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
9	Transaction Junction	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	114 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Established in 2007 and head-quartered in Cape Town, Transaction Junction (TJ) is a leading FinTech company that provides a modern transaction platform to businesses across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
10	Zapper	Partial evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	83 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Your payments partner for growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
11	Payjustnow	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	76 contacts →
	Strong evidence “PayJustNow is an innovative payment platform, offering flexible retail payment options to consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
12	Sasai Fintech	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	51-200	72 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Sasai Fintech is a diversified and integrated fintech company offering digital financial services to Africa’s mobile consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
13	Airvantage PTY LTD	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	51-200	53 contacts →
	Partial evidence “How do you reduce churn and grow revenue in unbanked markets?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
14	IMS Ventures	Strong evidence	Sandton, South Africa	11-50	36 contacts →
	Strong evidence “With more than 9 years experience, IMS Ventures is a digital mobile financial company and content services provider with a presence in emerging markets – Africa being our key…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
15	Pattern Matched Technologies	Indirect evidence	Pretoria, South Africa	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Pattern Matched Technologies™ (PMT) is a product development company that was founded over two decades ago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
16	Wizzit	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	11-50	36 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Wizzit is a new digital payments company headed out of London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
17	Paycode	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At Paycode, our vision is giving biometric identity and access to financial services to the unbanked.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
18	OTT Mobile Technologies	Strong evidence	Durban, South Africa	51-200	35 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We're an alternative payments ecosystem with solutions that empower the cash consumer main market to connect to the digital economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
19	Paym8	Partial evidence	Midrand, South Africa	11-50	33 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PAYM8 is transforming the payments landscape, providing businesses with a comprehensive suite of solutions that are simple, secure, and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
20	IMB Financial Services	Strong evidence	Cape Town, South Africa	51-200	30 contacts →
	Strong evidence “IMB Financial Services is a Fintech start-up based in South Africa mobilizing money through cell phone technology to create wealth & solve real world problems in emerging markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
21	ADUMO	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	51-200	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Innervation PAN African Payments is a leading PCI-compliant payment business with over 20 years domain experience in providing streamlined, integrated payment solutions and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
22	Veneka	Partial evidence	Sandton, South Africa	11-50	16 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Veneka: “to illuminate” Veneka enables Card, Mobile and e-Banking payment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
23	Paypoint PTY LTD	Partial evidence	Illovo, South Africa	11-50	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Paypoint is a FinTech, service and technology company, providing debit, credit, and mobile payment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
24	Araxi Previously Capital Appreciation	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South Africa	501-1,000	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Araxi (previously Capital Appreciation) is a financial technology company that brings deep payments expertise and cutting-edge software capabilities to create transformational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026
25	Layup Technologies	Partial evidence	Sandton, South Africa	11-50	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Welcome to LayUp, the leading digital recurring payments system for E-commerce and Point of Sale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 1, 2026

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 platforms. 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 platforms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of emerging market payment platforms, 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 platforms. 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 platforms based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 1, 2026

42.4%Verified-email coverage

2.5%Mobile-number coverage

52.6Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

33.0%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg

Sep 1, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 platforms, 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “emerging market payment platforms”. 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 platforms), 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 platforms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa 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, 2,166 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 1, 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.

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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 platforms, 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 platforms are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 97 emerging market payment platforms headquartered in South Africa 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?

Mukuru, headquartered in Cape Town, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most emerging market payment platforms?

Johannesburg leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (28) and Sandton (5).

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 2,166 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 97 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 1, 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.