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SA fintech startup Sticitt secures an oversubscribed seed funding round for expansion.

Sticitt, a South African fintech startup, has secured an oversubscribed round of seed funding to help it expand.

Sticitt Pay, a simple payment system co-founded by Theo Kitshoff, Mitch Dart, and Dennis Wevel in January 2018, simplifies payments within the South African education industry by providing niche groups with an alternative payment solution to cash, formal banking, and card-based payments.

Sticitt, which is primarily focused on the education industry, earned $250,000 in funding in 2020 and has now received a strategic investment from a consortium led by Nustate Capital Ventures in a seed round that was 1.5X oversubscribed. Grindstone Ventures, Nustate Capital Ventures, Hlayisani Capital, Realm Digital, and GalloProvincialis are among the investing consortium’s members.

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“Financial education is crucial for economic growth and gives someone the chance of a better  tomorrow using money as an enabling tool in their lives. Our first product, Sticitt Pay, a  cashless payment platform, offers schools an integrated smart payment system that is safe  and easy to use and is the first important step in our journey to simplify education-related  payments and building toward a youth banking alternative. This funding round will help us  reach more schools, parents, and learners and enable our expanded product roadmap centred around education-related payments and youth banking,” said Theo Kitshoff, CEO of Sticitt.

Dr Eugene van Rensburg, partner at Hlayisani Capital and Sticitt director, said South Africa had one of the world’s lowest household saving rates, which directly impacts the country’s ability to generate meaningful GDP growth and makes people vulnerable to economic shocks. 

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“Using user-centric financial technology to make the fundamentals of personal finance more accessible to the youth, and their families are essential in improving the socio-economic outlook for all South Africans. With this investment, Sticitt is able to accelerate its product development, schools deployment and significantly contribute to the upliftment of learners, their parents, and schools,” he said.

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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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