Stellenbosch’s 7 Fastest Growing FinTech Startups

At Fintech Energy we track over 200,000 fintech startups and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 7 FinTech companies in Stellenbosch. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

• Track record
• Executive leadership
• Market share
• Innovation
• ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top FinTech Companies & Startups (Stellenbosch)

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Fintec Labs

Founders	Daniel van Tonder, Guncha Kumar, Willem van Zyl
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

South African financial technology incubator to the largest African insurance- and banking institutions

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Paymenow Group

Founders	Bryan Habana, Deon Nobrega, Gerbrand Potgieter, Willem van Zyl
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Paymenow Group is an employee benefits platform that offers users early access to earned wages at affordable rates.

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Vollar

Founders	Kyle Ueckermann
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Vollar is a digital currency earned by doing good alongside local nonprofit organisations.

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Entersekt

Founders	Altus van Tonder, Christiaan Brand, Dewald Nolte, Niel Müller, Schalk Nolte
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Innovator in mobile identity and payments enablement

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Crowdinvest

Founders	Anton Breytenbach
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Crowdinvest is the first crowd sourced investing platform in South Africa

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Paytec

Founders	Unknown
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Authorised operator of BankTech Platform in Sub-Saharan Africa

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moneysmart

Founders	Tobie van Zyl
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

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