The leading tech start-up employer in South Africa is Valenture Institute, a private online high school. As of 2022, the start-up had *** working staff. Yoco, a software and payment company, followed with *** employees. Clickatell and Yoyo came next, with *** and *** employees, respectively.
According to the source, startups included here are those launched between 2002 and 2021. It adds that it does not claim to have identified all the tech startups that existed in the countries as some may have "slipped through the net".
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