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Top 25 Mobile financial services providers based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 65 mobile financial services providers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 4,730 professional contacts across them, including 1,651 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers mobile financial services providers 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 17, 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 25 largest mobile financial services providers based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 524 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lesaka is a South African financial technology company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 504 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 212 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sasai Fintech is a diversified and integrated fintech company offering digital financial services to Africa’s mobile consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Select Africa has been offering retail financial services to the non- or under-banked market in Africa for over 20 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A2pay understand the unique challenges of working on the African continent and have therefore paid special attention to ensuring that the products and systems offer a high level…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “How do you and in?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 37 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Paycode, our vision is giving biometric identity and access to financial services to the unbanked.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Spot is your free account for everyday needs allowing customers to save, spend and maximise their money.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 32 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Veneka: “to illuminate” Veneka enables Card, Mobile and e-Banking payment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paypoint is a FinTech, service and technology company, providing debit, credit, and mobile payment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a FinTech company focussed on EMEA region, contracted by Mobile Telcos and Financial Institutions alike.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SASA Solutions is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chikwama Pay is a fintech company that provides financial services to the unbanked through a mobile wallet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a dedicated all-inclusive financial services provider aiming to bring banking to the informal market, by empowering every un-banked person and organization on the planet to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Zoop is a registered credit provider in South Africa, serving our customers with access to short-term loans - Engagement with Zoop is simple with mobile apps and supported by a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “abela.app is a QR enabled payments platform that allows anyone with a cellphone the ability to earn, spend and save their money however they feel like it!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leading mobile platform for all financial services and transactions with a focus on mobile banking in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a low-cost digital payment platform that provides basic banking services to underserved communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Powering the Future for Cashless Businesses Tenderize AI is a fintech services company redefining digital commerce through advanced wallet ecosystems, ultrasonic payments, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: mobile financial services providers. 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 mobile financial services providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of mobile financial services providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name mobile financial services providers. 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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Mobile financial services providers based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 65 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 mobile financial services providers, 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 “mobile financial services providers”. 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 mobile financial services providers), 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 mobile financial services providers, 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, 1,651 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 17, 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.
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 mobile financial services providers, 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 mobile financial services providers are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 65 mobile financial services providers 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?
Lesaka Technologies INC, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most mobile financial services providers?
Johannesburg leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (15) 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 1,651 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 65 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 17, 2026.
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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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