Lesaka Technologies

Name

Lesaka Technologies

Legal name

Lesaka Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://lesakatech.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Technology (Fintech)

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (522320)

SIC

Finance Services (6199)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Wallet Platforms (Consumer & Merchant) (BPAMAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Crypto Payments & Stablecoin Settlement Platforms (BPAMAFAL), Multi-Currency Accounts, Wallets & IBAN Services (FSAMAIAG)

Keywords

• Merchant payment processing
• Consumer banking services
• Cash management solutions
• Prepaid value-added services
• Enterprise payment technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Johannesburg

HQ country

South Africa

HQ region

Africa

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Operations, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Merchant Payment Processing: Transaction fees from card acquiring, cash management, and alternative digital payments (pre-paid solutions, supplier enabled payments) across micro-merchant and SMB segments. Revenue driven by transaction volume through Kazang, Kazang Pay, Adumo, and Cash Connect platforms.
2. Consumer Lending: Interest income from personal loans up to R4,000 with up to nine months repayment terms offered to EasyPay Everywhere customers. Loan originations reached approximately R856 million in Q2 2026.
3. Consumer Banking Fees: Low-cost transactional account fees, insurance premiums (funeral insurance), and card fees from EasyPay Everywhere accounts serving underserviced consumers.
4. Enterprise Payment Solutions: Fees from EasyPay enterprise solutions including airtime, data, electricity sales, lotto, gaming vouchers, and over 600 bill payment services. Also Prism cryptography and secure token vending solutions for payment and utility clients.
5. Payout Solutions: Corporate payout services for incentives, rewards, payroll, and expense management. Lesaka Payouts and adumoPayouts facilitate disbursements to over 500 corporate clients with prepaid cards accepted wherever Mastercard is used.
6. Enterprise Software and Licensing: Software services to enterprise clients including banks, mobile network operators, and municipalities. GAAP hospitality platform licensing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lesaka Technologies operates an integrated fintech platform serving three segments — merchants, consumers, and enterprises — with a multiproduct portfolio spanning transactional accounts, lending, insurance, merchant acquiring, cash management, software, bill payments, and alternative digital products. Core offerings include the Kazang micro-merchant platform (POS, prepaid VAS, card acquiring, cash vaults), Adumo payment processing across five African countries, GAAP hospitality POS, EasyPay Everywhere consumer banking, and Prism enterprise cryptography.

Product overview

Lesaka Technologies operates a multiproduct fintech platform organized into three divisions: Merchant, Consumer, and Enterprise. The Merchant Division serves micro-merchants and SMBs through products like Kazang (prepaid services, POS, cash management, analytics), Adumo (payments processing), GAAP (hospitality POS), Cash Connect (automated cash vaults), and Capital Connect (business lending). The Consumer Division provides transactional banking accounts via EasyPay Everywhere, personal loans, funeral insurance, and payout solutions. The Enterprise Division offers Prism (cryptography solutions) and EasyPay enterprise bill payment services. The platform provides integrated financial services including transactional accounts, lending, insurance, merchant acquiring, cash management, software, bill payments, and alternative digital products, with primary listing on NASDAQ (LSAK) and secondary listing on JSE (LSK).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kazang: Micro-merchant solutions providing value-added services including electricity, airtime, data, bill payments, gaming vouchers and money transfers
• Kazang Pay
• Kazang Vaults
• Kazang Insights
• Adumo
• GAAP
• Cash Connect
• Capital Connect
• EasyPay Everywhere
• EasyPay Loans
• EasyPay Insurance
• Lesaka Payouts
• Prism
• EasyPay

Products and services

• Kazang Value-added services platform for micro-merchants offering electricity, airtime, data, bill payments, gaming vouchers, and money transfers, plus card acquiring and cash management on a single POS device.
• Kazang Pay

Quantifiable outcome

• 14.6% market share in South Africa's social grant business (up from 11%)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Heineken InternationalminorOthers · 1 February 2026Lesaka acquired Touchsides from Heineken International in February 2024, expanding footprint in South Africa's informal tavern industry with data analytics from over 10,000 terminals.
• SizekhayaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025Kazang (Lesaka micro-merchant division) partners with Sizekhaya, incoming National Lottery operator, to provide lottery and gaming voucher services through Kazang's merchant network.
• LunocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025ZARU stablecoin co-creation partnership with Luno, EasyEquities, and Sanlam unit. Luno provides trading desk infrastructure for the first rand-backed stablecoin enabling 24/7 blockchain-based payments.
• SanlamcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025ZARU stablecoin partnership with Sanlam Specialised Asset Management providing reserve management. Sanlam Financial Markets facilitates the stablecoin infrastructure alongside Luno, EasyEquities, and Lesaka.
• EasyEquitiescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025ZARU stablecoin co-creation partnership with EasyEquities providing trading desk access for institutional investors in the initial rollout of the rand-backed stablecoin.
• Standard BankcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025Standard Bank holds cash reserves backing ZARU stablecoin and provides reserve custody services. Standard Bank Financial Markets and Sanlam Financial Markets manage the stablecoin's reserve assets.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• StoneCo: Latin American SMB-focused fintech offering acquiring, banking, and credit. Broadly comparable emerging-markets fintech playbook; Lesaka chairman Ali Mazanderani also serves on its board.
• Capitec Bank: South Africa's largest retail bank by client base, serving mass-market and lower-income consumers with simplified banking and unsecured lending. Represents the broader incumbent against which Lesaka's EasyPay consumer proposition competes.
• Discovery Bank: South African digital retail bank with a behavioural-incentives model. Comparable to Lesaka's evolving consumer banking strategy, particularly given that Lesaka's CSO Akash Dowra was a founding member of Discovery Bank.

Direct peers

• Network International: Emerging-markets-focused payments processor and acquirer operating across the Middle East and Africa. Closely comparable to Adumo/Lesaka on merchant acquiring, processing volumes, and emerging-market fintech distribution; Lesaka chairman Ali Mazanderani also sits on its board.
• Interswitch: Pan-African digital payments and commerce company providing card acquiring, switching, payment processing, and consumer financial services across Nigeria and wider Africa. Direct comparable to Lesaka's multiproduct merchant + consumer fintech model.
• Onafriq (formerly MFS Africa): African mobile-money and cross-border payments network connecting 500M+ mobile wallets. Directly comparable to Lesaka's ZARU stablecoin corridor and EasyPay/Merchant cross-border ambitions.
• Yoco: South African SMB-focused payments and POS company serving tens of thousands of small merchants. Directly overlaps with Lesaka's Kazang/Adumo SMB acquiring target market in South Africa.
• Peach Payments: South African online and in-person payment gateway serving SMB merchants. Comparable to Lesaka's Adumo and Kazang Pay card acquiring offerings for the same SMB segment.
• Thunes: Cross-border payments network enabling real-time payments across 130+ countries. Directly comparable to Lesaka's ZARU stablecoin cross-border use case; Ali Mazanderani also serves on Thunes' board.
• TymeBank: South African digital-only challenger bank targeting underserved consumers with low-cost transactional accounts. Directly overlaps with Lesaka's EasyPay Everywhere consumer banking proposition, and is a comparable model for the new Bank Zero banking licence use case.

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LesakaTech
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@LesakaTechnologies
• Facebookfacebook.com/LesakaTech
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lesaka-technologies

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A6 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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