Mukuru
Southern Africa • Founded: 2004
CEO: Andy Jury
Fintech companies are on the rise in Africa, and it is a space that Andy Jury finds incredibly exciting.
Over rounds of beer and biltong with the founders of Mukuru, Jury concluded that participating in this sphere could greatly benefit Africa's development.
“We pride ourselves in being an African business that has an Afri-can-do spirit that is looking to solve the challenges that the vast majority of Africans across the continent feel today, and leverage the opportunities that come with that,” he tells FORBES AFRICA.
Mukuru has a customer base of over 13 million across Africa, Asia, and Europe. With over 100 million transactions to date, the company, whose core was built providing international money transfers, has developed a set of services to address the extensive financial needs of its customers.
“We essentially originated as bridging borders and fueling dreams, and allowing
