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Mar 18, 2026
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The Cape Town FinTech Powering SA's Biggest Checkouts Is Now Preparing Them for AI
Stitch processes payments for FlySafair, TFG's Bash and EasyEquities. It just added Apple Pay and Google Pay to FlySafair's app this week. But the more interesting move is what it published three weeks ago: an architectural warning to SA's CTOs that the next wave of commerce won't involve humans at all.
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Mar 17, 2026
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Woolworths Just Bought the Company That Makes Your Ready Meals: Here's What It Took
Woolworths announced today that it will acquire 100% of In2food, its biggest supplier, from the founders, Old Mutual Private Equity and other shareholders. In2food does R5 billion a year in revenue, runs eight manufacturing facilities, and produces 3.2 million packs a week. The deal price wasn't disclosed. Here's what the deal means and what it took to build a company that Woolworths couldn't afford to lose.
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Mar 16, 2026
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Optasia's First JSE Results: 76% Revenue Growth, 432 Million Users, and an Answer to the Exit Question
Optasia has delivered its maiden full-year results since listing on the JSE in November 2025. Revenue surged 76% to $265 million. Adjusted EBITDA hit $115 million. The user base passed 432 million across 38 countries. And the default rate on $5.5 billion in distributed value held at 1.2%. For an ecosystem that has been asking whether the JSE can support tech listings, this is the strongest answer so far.
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Mar 16, 2026
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Resolute Education Is Selling a Robotics Teaching Business in a Box: Here's What You'd Actually Be Buying
Looking for a business opportunity? You can now skip the years of building a STEM programme from scratch and open an after-school club or dedicated centre on a proven foundation. The SA coding and robotics provider behind 450+ schools and 200,000+ learners is now franchising. Resolute's "Business in a Box" gives you a CAPS-aligned curriculum, robotics kits, an LMS with 100+ hours of video content, and SACE-endorsed training. But what does the opportunity actually look like for an operator?
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Mar 10, 2026
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Orca Fraud Raises R38M to Stop Payment Fraud Across 70 Countries: Built by Two Former Stitch Engineers
Cape Town-based Orca Fraud has closed an oversubscribed $2.35 million (R38 million) seed round led by Norrsken22 to scale its real-time fraud intelligence platform. Founded 16 months ago by former Stitch engineers Thalia Pillay and Carla Wilby, the startup already monitors over $5 billion in monthly transaction volume across 70+ countries. The pitch: global fraud tools weren't built for mobile wallets, agent banking, and African payment rails. Orca was.
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Mar 9, 2026
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NjiaPay Raises $2.1M to Fix Africa's Broken Payment Routing: Talk360's 25% Conversion Jump Shows Why
Cape Town and Amsterdam-based NjiaPay has closed a $2.1 million seed round led by European B2B SaaS investor Newion, roughly a year after an oversubscribed $1 million pre-seed. The startup builds a payment orchestration layer that sits on top of existing payment providers and routes transactions to whichever one performs best. After implementing it, international calling app Talk360 cut six PSP integrations to one and saw checkout conversions rise 25%.
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Mar 9, 2026
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SA’s FinMaster Board Game Launches at Exclusive Books: From a Pizza Box Prototype to The Top Shelf
FinMaster, the South African board game that placed second at an international competition in Norway and had someone pay in crypto just to get a copy, launches at Exclusive Books stores nationwide on 3 April. It started as a pizza box prototype made in three days. Here's the story of how it got to the shelf.
