Best FinTech Companies in Pretoria, South Africa
The 35 best FinTech companies in Pretoria, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sticitt.
Our analysis of 1,006 FinTech companies
$195.5b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Pretoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88Pockets Easy to use web-apps for retail wealth management | — | Unfunded | — | 2008 | Ben Fourie Co-Founder | — | — |
| 2 | Abacus Payroll Payroll management software | — | Unfunded | — | 2010 | Roelof Oosthuizen Managing Director | — | — |
| 3 | Amplifin Platform offering electronic payments and collections solutions for businesses | — | Unfunded | 77 | 1995 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 4 | Business Insurance Business insurance online quotes | — | Unfunded | — | 2005 | Richard Branson Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 5 | C3Gold Online exchange platform for cryptocurrency | — | Unfunded | — | 2010 | Christopher Charles MD | — | — |
| 6 | Cash Flow Capital Provides merchant cash advance | — | Unfunded | 65 | 2014 | Michail Myburgh Co-CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 7 | Delter Software solutions for micro lending industry | — | Unfunded | 33 | 2003 | Derek Chaplin CEO & MD | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 8 | Direct Transact Banking software suite for banks and financial institutions | — | Unfunded | — | 2002 | Anthony Birch COO | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+12 | — |
Top 2 FinTech companies in Pretoria
#1
Series A · Pretoria, Gauteng · founded 2017 · 15 employees$259.8Kraised▾
Sticitt provides payment processing solutions for schools. It enables students/parents to make school fees payments via bank transfers and credit/debit cards. It also provides a digital wallet for sending and receiving school payments.
- Jul 2025Series A—
- Mar 2022Seed—
- Jun 2020Seed$176K
- Jan 2020Angel$83.8K
#2
Seed · Pretoria, Gauteng · founded 2020 · 2 employees—raised▾
Provider of electric vehicle fleet transition, charging infrastructure, and finance solutions. The company packages electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. It offers financial solutions designed to facilitate the adoption of electric vehicles. The company aims to streamline the transition to electric fleets. It provides access to a charging network and operational electricity.
- Feb 2025Venture Debt—
- Sep 2021Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of FinTech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Fintech is moving in South Africa
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 90 South Africa-affiliated papers.
- University of Johannesburg16
- Walter Sisulu University12
- University of South Africa10
- University of the Witwatersrand9
- University of Pretoria7
- Financial services1→13
- Financial inclusion3→9
- Financial services4→23
- Financial inclusion4→18
- Payment2→7
- Mobile payment2→7
- Inclusion (mineral)2→5
Where fintech is researched across South Africa
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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