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SA’s Yoco acquires leading fintech, Web3 software development agency Nona Digital.

Yoco, a South African payments startup, has acquired Nona Digital, a fintech and Web3 software development agency based in Cape Town, in order to accelerate its roadmap by bringing in a team of highly specialized fintech product and technology professionals.

Yoco creates tools and services to assist small businesses with accepting credit card payments in-store and online, obtaining loans, and managing their day-to-day operations. 

Over 150,000 small companies in South Africa have selected the startup as their preferred payment partner, with the startup handling over $1 billion in card payments each year.

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Nona Digital was recently acquired by the company, which raised US$83 million in Series C funding last July. 

Nona was founded in 2012 in Cape Town by Mike Scott, Ed O’Reilly, Gordon Angus, and two others with the aim of completing software products and teams at a level that elevates the industry as a whole. They’ve developed into true financial professionals over the years, with a particular flare for Web3 application development.

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“We are excited to welcome Nona and its team to Yoco. Nona is an industry leader behind some of the best digital banking and Web3 products both in the region and globally. All of this makes them a great fit for the direction we are taking and the evolution of our products. After working with the team for over a year, we realised that the cultural alignment between the two organisations and a shared passion for creating financial products for millions of self-employed Africans made working together a no brainer,” said Lungisa Matshoba, CTO at Yoco.

Mike Scott, CEO at Nona, said the company had spent the last 10 years building an exceptional team and capability in the fintech and Web3 space. 

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“This acquisition allows us to direct everything that we have built towards a vision and mission that we believe in, and that matters. It is a natural evolution for a strong services business to move into product and we are very excited to now be part of the Yoco story,” he said.

Yoco plans to be the primary financial platform for the self-employed in Africa and the Middle East, with ambitions to serve one million entrepreneurs by 2024 through its payments software and capital products. The company claims this type of team acquisition is especially effective in today’s context of high demand for talent.

This is the third and largest acquisition of a software development agency by Yoco since 2019, having acquired Cobi Interactive in 2019 and Dado in 2021. This latest addition takes Yoco’s team size up to 500 people, half of which are product and technology-focused. 

Off the back of its Series C last year, Yoco is increasing its talent footprint across Africa, Europe and the Middle East.

“We have been bringing in talent aggressively across South Africa and other markets – employing people remotely across 15 geographies and in our talent hubs in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Amsterdam, Cairo and Dubai,” said Matshoba.

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Weddy Thuranira
Weddy Thuranira
Weddy profiles new startups and innovators across Africa and announces funding rounds, mergers, acquisitions and startup partnerships across Africa. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Reach her and the entire news desk at [email protected]

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