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Top 14 Mobile lending companies based in South Africa

Name: Mobile lending companies based in South Africa
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026 34 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 34 mobile lending companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 3,867 professional contacts across them, including 1,402 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers mobile lending companies 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 17, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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3,867Contacts tracked

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The 14 largest mobile lending companies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size

Top 14 of 34 mobile lending companies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to mobile lending companies: 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	Momo From MTN	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	10001+	504 contacts →
	Indirect 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, 2026
2	Unifi Africa	Partial evidence	Stellenbosch, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	501-1,000	229 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We are redefining credit in Africa with fast, simple lending that makes life easy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
3	JUMO	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	201-500	212 contacts →
	Indirect 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, 2026
4	Select Africa Limited	Indirect evidence	Illovo, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	65 contacts →
	Indirect 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, 2026
5	Airvantage PTY LTD	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	56 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “How do you and in?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
6	Genfin	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Too big for a standard bank loan?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
7	WONGA	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	51-200	45 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As South African's first fully digital lender, Wonga is on a mission to help people own their possibilities by giving them access to fast, short-term credit of up to R We have…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
8	Mpowa Finance	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “An innovative Fintech operating in the Financial Services sector offering Short Term Loans to individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9	FASTA	Indirect evidence	Cape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FASTA is the leading South African fintech dedicated to digital financial solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
10	Future Finance	Indirect evidence	Durban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Future Finance was established in 2003 and has up to date given out in excess of 100 loans with not one complaint lodged against us with our regulating authority.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11	Chikwama PAY	Partial evidence	Johannessburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Chikwama Pay is a fintech company that provides financial services to the unbanked through a mobile wallet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12	Zoop Finance	Partial evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	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, 2026
13	Mobihive PTY Limited	Strong evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	2 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Mobihive was established to push the mobile micro-lending service to a new level in the developing world and emerging markets of Asia and Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14	Funderjet	Indirect evidence	Johannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 17, 2026	11-50	2 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “funderJet is a fully digital transaction platform that revolutionises the way individuals provide secure financial services to one another.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 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: mobile lending 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 mobile lending companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of mobile lending companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name mobile lending 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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Mobile lending companies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026

36.3%Verified-email coverage

113.7Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

26.5%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg

Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

10001+

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 34 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 lending 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 South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “mobile lending 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 mobile lending 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 mobile lending companies, 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, 1,402 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 lending 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 mobile lending companies are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 34 mobile lending companies 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?

Momo From MTN, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most mobile lending companies?

Johannesburg leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (6) and Pretoria (4).

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 1,402 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 34 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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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.