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This article showcases our top picks for the best Johannesburg based FinTech companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the FinTech industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Johannesburg FinTech Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
MFS Africa
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MFS Africa is a digital payment company that offers mobile financial solutions for senders, money users, and service providers.
Pineapple
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Pineapple makes insuring easy, fair and accessible. Get cover in a snap. See the good your premiums do. Get all leftover premium back.
VALR
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We‘re helping build a financial system that recognises the oneness of humanity.
FinChatBot
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We conversational AI solutions to help financial service providers acquire & retain customers
Mortgage Market
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Mortgage Market is a fintech startup that has created an online marketplace for home loans.
Investsure
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InvestSure- a tech company, provides APIs to enable partner investment platforms to sell its Investment Insurance product to their clients.
Bright On Capital
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Bright On Capital is a peer-to-peer online enterprise-lending platform for SMEs to raise working capital funding from lenders.
Franc
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Franc is a digital wealth platform helping more people invest more.
Truzo
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Truzo is a web and app-based escrow platform enabling buyers and sellers anywhere to transact in a safe and secure way.
CommuScore
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We digitise trust in the informal market. We provide alternative credit scoring for the unbanked to drive financial inclusion.
GetVanced
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GetVanced is a financial wellness platform that allows employees to get immediate access to a percentage of their earned wages.
MobiLife
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MobiLife is an insurance provider aiming to transform micro-insurance in South Africa.
DafriBank Digital LTD
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DafriBank Digital is a branchless financial technology company providing customized financial services to clients in 180+ countries
Transaction Capital
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Transaction Capital is a provider of specialised financial and allied services.
ProsperiProp
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ProsperiProp is fintech platform that makes it possible for people to own property and ultimately create their own personal wealth.
Maxicash
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Maxicash is a Fintech company & developer of a mobile app that helps African financially support their loved ones back home.
walletDoc
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walletdoc is the smart, secure & free way to pay bills – with no admin.
Fincheck
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Fincheck provides users with the facts and figures required to make an informed decision on their personal finance and loans.
BancX
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BancX a provider of cloud based platform that deliver digital financial and banking services.
Merchant Capital South Africa
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Merchant Capital is an alternative provider of working capital for small and medium entrepreneurs.
Airvantage
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Airvantage is a fintech provider of mobile financial and value-added services for mobile network operators.
Veneka
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Veneka renders payment technology solutions such as card and wallet issuing, card payments, electronic and digital banking.
Fedgroup
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Fedgroup is a financial services company investing in smart technology.
Astute Financial Services
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Astute provides data exchange, intermediary, fintech and risk technology solutions to the financial services industry.
OysterPay
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OysterPay is a digital banking platform for gig workers who are largely overlooked by traditional financial institutions.
ZAR X
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ZAR X is a licensed stock exchange that uses disruptive fintech to create a more efficient market for all.
Stock Shop
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Stock Shop provides a toolbox of platforms that financial institutions can white-label to provide financial education.
Imafin
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Imafin is a specialist payment and commercial credit firm driven by innovation on traditional payments models.
Diga Digital Intelligence
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Diga Digital Intelligence specializes in cloud applications that are changing the way advisers connect with their clients.
FMJ Financial Services
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Registered tax practitioners that focus on assisting individuals with SARS tax returns, tax advice, tax audits and tax objections
AvantCore
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AvantCore is a FinTech entity focused on Blockchain and CryptoAsset Research and Development.
Arcus Capital
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Arcus Capital has created a robo advisor with advanced investment algorithms that trawl the market and analyse them using big data.
SIPP Investments
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SIPP is a technology driven investment business with online tools for investors to empower financial well-being.
Cryptovecs Capital
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Cryptovecs Capital is a black-owned African Investment and Technology company headquartered in Johannesburg.
CollectVest
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CollectVest is a fintech tool that facilitates non-traditional asset investment, trading of e-units, fractional ownership & stock exchanges.
Neomutual
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Neomutual is an online platform dedicated to giving uninsured & underinsured individuals alternative coverage through zero interest credit.
