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Payments Startups in Africa

The buy-now-pay-later trend is gaining traction, with Tabby and Zepz leading the charge. Flutterwave dominates traditional payments, but competition is heating up from local players. Word is, the market is ripe for innovation and tailored solutions for local businesses.

Tracked Companies

169

Total Sectors

Market Map

169 companies in this sector

Company	Tagline	Total Funding	Last Round	Team Size	Backers
Abela South Africa	Abela is a QR enabled payments platform that allows anyone with a cellphone the ability to earn, spend and save their money.	-	Grant -	2-10	No Data
Plumter Nigeria	Plumter is helping to facilitate easy foreign payments and international banking for African businesses.	-	Seed -	2-10	No Data
Boya Kenya	Boya provides an all in one spend platform for businesses	-	Seed -	2-10	No Data
Allawee Nigeria	Allawee is a Nigerian App based credit card & expense management solutions for African businesses.	-	- -	11-50	No Data
Paymee Tunisia	Paymee is a Tunisian fintech firm that provides an online payment gateway	-	Seed -	2-10	No Data
Cowrie Integrated Systems Nigeria	Cowrie Integrated Systems is a Nigeria-based fintech that provides cross-border payments solutions	-	Funding Round -	11-50	No Data

Whoosh South Africa	Whoosh is a Payment gateway service provider allowing merchants to process transactions	-	Non-equity Assistance -	11-50	No Data
AkademikIT Uganda	Digitizing Schools	-	- -	2-10	No Data
WayaMoney Ghana	Waya is a Ghanaian cross-border, cross-network remittance and payment solution for Africa	-	Non-equity Assistance -	11-50	No Data
Vendy Nigeria	Vendy makes commerce as simple as a chat for businesses and their customers.	-	Seed -	11-50	No Data
ExiPay South Africa	ExiPay provides an agile and fast payments platform for acquirers and payment service providers that is tender and device agnostic.	-	- -	11-50	No Data
Flouci Tunisia	Flouci is a Tunis-based startup that uses distributed ledger technologies and data science to change the payments and credits landscape of the MEA region.	-	- -	11-50	No Data
LINK Nigeria	Web 3 Cross Border Payment Infrastructure for Africa	-	- -	2-10	No Data
Mekka Group Dr Congo	Mekka is revolutionizing financial services across Africa by building the continent’s first dedicated neobank for enterprises.	-	Funding Round -	11-50	No Data
Aku Nigeria	Banking made simple for everyone with Aku	-	Funding Round -	11-50	No Data
Orchestrate Nigeria	Orchestrate is the fastest way to add new payment methods to your product and expand into new markets.	-	- -	11-50	No Data
iKhokha South Africa	iKhokha is helping South African business owners believe in better by accelerating the digital economy	-	Venture -	201-500	No Data
Beyonic Uganda	Beyonic is a Ugandan mobile payment FinTech.	-	Seed -	11-50	No Data
Bailport Rwanda	BailPort is a Rwandan multi-currency e-wallet that helps users exchange, save and send money instantly at the best possible rates	-	Grant -	2-10	No Data
Bento Africa Nigeria	Bento Africa is a Nigerian business solutions startup that helps businesses do more with less.	-	- -	11-50	No Data

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