by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRAerobotics built aerial imaging and analytics for tree crops, giving growers per-tree data on health, size and expected yield from drone and satellite imagery. Its commercial lesson matters beyond agriculture: the imagery was never the product, and the...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRLuno was founded in Cape Town in 2013 to give people in emerging markets a straightforward way to buy, store and transfer digital assets. It grew across Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe, prioritised regulatory engagement and custody security when many...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRJUMO built a technology platform that lets banks and mobile network operators offer small loans and savings products to customers with no credit history, using mobile wallet and airtime behaviour as the underwriting signal. It has originated large volumes...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRYoco built card acceptance for small South African businesses that banks considered too small, too informal or too risky to onboard. By selling a low-cost reader outright and approving merchants online in days rather than weeks, it brought hundreds of...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Startups & Innovation
⚡ TL;DRTymeBank built a retail bank without branches by placing account-opening kiosks inside supermarket chains and using their till points for cash deposits and withdrawals. It acquired millions of customers at a fraction of incumbent acquisition cost, raised...
