Tech startups in South Africa 2021, by sector

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 10, 2025
Most of the tech start-ups in South Africa were in the Fintech field. As of 2021, almost *** startups were operating in Fintech. Ecommerce and retail tech, and E-health followed with ** and ** startups, respectively. Furthermore, educational tech (Ed-tech) startups in the country reached **, ranking the sector as the fourth in terms of number of ventures.
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Number of tech startups in South Africa in 2021, by sector

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June 2022

Region

South Africa

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

According to the source startups included here are startups launched between 2002 and 2021. Furthermore, they add that they do not claim to have identified all the tech startups that existed in the country as some may have "slipped through the net".

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