Best Investment Tech Companies in Gauteng, South Africa
The 46 best Investment Tech companies in Gauteng, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Akiba Digital.
Our analysis of 229 Investment Tech companies
$28.6b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Investment Tech companies in Gauteng
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akiba Digital Risk decisioning platform that empowers businesses to make faster, smarter, and more inclusive financial… | $1M | 61 mo ago | Seed | Tebogo Mokwena Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 2 | Franc App-based robo-advisors for money market and ETF investments | $822K | 50 mo ago | Seed | Thomas Brennan Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+22 | — |
| 3 | Livestock Wealth Provider of a crowd-farming company for investing in cattle | $565K | 46 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — |
| 4 | Merge Online platform for connecting entrepreneurs & investors | $100K | 74 mo ago | Seed | Zander Matthee Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | Stokfella Administrative software provider for stokvels (savings and investment groups in South Africa) | $70K | 118 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2015 | DudaZohoNginx+17 | — |
| 6 | 88Pockets Easy to use web-apps for retail wealth management | — | — | Unfunded | Ben Fourie Co-Founder | 2008 | — | — |
| 7 | Alexander Forbes Developer of a wealth management platform for retirement planning | — | — | Public | Dawid Villiers CEO | 1935 | — | — |
| 8 | Alfa Financials Trading platform for multi-assets | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2015 | — | — |
Top 5 Investment Tech companies in Gauteng
#1
Seed · Sandton, Gauteng · founded 2015 · 23 employees$564.6Kraised▾
Provider of a crowd-farming company for investing in cattle. It allows users to invest in cattle farms and earn from their investments.
- Sep 2022Seed$564.6K
- Sep 2019Conventional Debt$131.8K
#2
Seed · Sandton, Gauteng · founded 2018 · 13 employees$822Kraised▾
App-based robo-advisors for money market and ETF investments. It is a savings & investment app that provides goal-based investment advice. It provides access to the best cash and index-tracking equity funds in the market without minimums or restrictions. The app is available on Android, iOS, and Huawei.
- Jun 2022Seed$522K
- Aug 2020Seed—
- Jul 2020Seed$300K
#3
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2017 · 14 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Risk decisioning platform that empowers businesses to make faster, smarter, and more inclusive financial decisions. Its decisioning engine orchestrates alternative data, configurable workflows, and traditional data to streamline credit scoring, identity risk, and fraud detection — making it cost effective for lenders, fintechs, and other accountable institutions to digitally acquire and service excluded customer segmented across Africa. It empower small businesses and consumers to reach their financial goals.
- Jul 2021Seed$1.1M
#4
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2019 · 6 employees$100Kraised▾
Merge is an online platform connecting entrepreneurs and investors. It allows users to access multiple projects, connect & set up meetings, and close investment deals. Offers mentoring, investment, messaging, document management, and automated listing of projects to assist investors.
- Jun 2020Seed$100K
#5
Funding Raised · Fourways, Gauteng · founded 2015 · 5 employees$69.7Kraised▾
StokFella puts the power of informed financial management and financial decision-making in the hands of all stokvels. It is a mobile application that allows them to organize, manage, communicate, visualize and be more efficient in wealth management. It aims to target 89,000 stokvels operating in South Africa with a total managed wealth of R49 billion per year.
- Oct 2016Grant (prize money)$69.7K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Investment Tech 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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