These are the 6 African startups on the CB Insights list of 250 of the world’s most promising fintech companies
Some of this year’s winners are building safer and more efficient ways to send and receive payments. Others strive to make banking services, loans, mobile wallets and investment products accessible to historically underserved populations around the world.
According to CB Insights, this year’s winners were selected based on factors including proprietary Mosaic scores, funding, market potential, business relationships, investor profile, news sentiment analysis, competitive landscape, team strength and technology novelty.
The report also noted that factors such as rising inflation, interest rate hikes and struggling public tech stocks have made it harder for new entrants to make a splash in the already mature fintech market.
Top investors: Tiger Global is the top investor in this year’s Fintech 250 by a significant margin, having backed equity deals in 45 of the winners, including Stripe, Checkout.com, Revolut and FTX, since 2017. Accel is second with 29 companies in its portfolio. , followed by Ribbit Capital with 27.
Here are the 6 most promising African fintech companies in 2022, according to CB Insights Fintech 250 list
Total funding: 267 million dollars
Disclosed investors: Google for Startups Accelerator, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, GEMCORP, Mastercard Foundation, Proparco, Goldman Sachs, LeapFrog Investments, VEF, Odey Asset Management, Ash Park, Fidelity Investments, Visa Ventures
Total funding: 180 million dollars
Disclosed investors: IDG Capital, Matrix Partners China, NGC Ventures, Circle Ventures, Jump Crypto, Susquehanna International Group
3. MFS Africa (South Africa)
Total funding: 281 million dollars
Disclosed investors: Goodwell Investments, LUN Partners Capital, Equator Capital Partners, FSD Africa, UK Department for International Development, Lendable, Norsad Finance, AfricInvest, Allan Gray, British International Investment, CommerzVentures, Endeavour, Endeavour, AXA Investment Managers, Admaius Capital Partners, Vitruvian Partners
Total funding: 570 million dollars
Disclosed investors: GSR Ventures, IDG Capital, Meituan Dianping, Opera, Sequoia Capital China, Source Code Capital, Bertelsmann Asia Investments, Gaorong Capital, Longzhu Capital, Redpoint Ventures China, Softbank Ventures Asia, 3W Partners, SoftBank Group
Total funding: 38 million dollars
Disclosed investors: Acumen, Adlevo Capital, Capricorn Investment Group, Flourish Ventures, Goodwell Investments, Jeremy Stoppelman, Jim O’Neill, Tim Draper, Global Innovation Fund, Unreasonable Capital, Ping An Cloud Accelerator, Gaingels
Total funding: 58 million dollars
Disclosed investors: Quantum Capital Partners, British International Investment, Endeavour, FMO, Global Ventures, Kepple Africa Ventures, Novastar Ventures, Oui Capital, Soma Capital, Lightrock, QED Investors.
