Johan Bosini

The SA SME Fund is a registered standalone investment vehicle managed by an executive management team, which reports to an independent board of directors. An independent investment committee is responsible for approving investments into funds that will enable the Fund to fulfil its mandate.

Building super simple accounting and financial tools for entrepreneurs in Africa.

Lua is making AI accessible and useful to companies globally. We make it easy for teams to build their own intelligent agent layer- one that drives outcomes across your business without the big budget lines, consultants or multi-year implementations. With Lua teams roll out agents that are deeply integrated, measurable, and under your control across your entire business. In days not months. We focus on abstracting the complexity required to launch enterprise grade agents and combining it with the tools needed for these agents to succeed in the real world. If you’re building in this space - or trying to figure out how to bring agents into your product, ops, or customer experience - we’d love to connect. Docs: https://docs.heylua.ai/overview

TurnStay thrives at the intersection of fintech and travel, championing hassle-free experiences in travel payments. Our commitment is unwavering: providing clients with seamless access to a comprehensive global payment infrastructure. The result? A dramatic reduction in payment costs and a promise delivered - a fully localized payment journey. Join us as we redefine the financial contours of travel, one transaction at a time

Orca is an AI-driven fraud orchestration platform. We empower fraud fighters to outpace fraud using our custom ML models.

Sukhiba is a conversational chat based platform for businesses looking to leverage the popularity of WhatsApp. Our platform enables organizations to connect with their customers and grow their reach through WhatsApp all the while driving revenue growth. Businesses can engage with their customers in a more personalized and interactive way, creating a seamless customer experience. We offer a revolutionary platform that streamlines - *Sales, Marketing, Payments, Logistics and Operations*, on a single unified platform. By providing a convenient and efficient way for customers to interact with businesses on the WhatsApp platform, Sukhiba helps increase customer satisfaction and loyalty while saving costs through the power of AI automation and data-driven insights. Our platform is easy to use and can be quickly integrated into existing workflows, making it an ideal solution for businesses looking to enhance their customer engagement and drive growth. Connect with us here on LinkedIn for the latest updates, industry insights and success stories. Learn more and unlock your businesss full potential in the digital era. Together, lets revolutionize the way businesses operate and achieve unparalleled growth. Email us at connect@sukhiba.com

Power is a platform dedicated to enabling holistic financial services to the online informal economy and the poorly served formal economy. We want to enable individuals to live their lives, reduce financial related stress, and take control over their financial well-being. We do this by working with regulated banking and lending partners to provide customers with tools to Pay, Save, Borrow, and Protect instantly and affordably and link directly to their sources of income to make the process frictionless. We give individuals the Power to recognize exponential growth.

ORDA is a cloud-based restaurant software built for African chefs and food business owners. Our ePos, integrations, and lending solutions enables Africa’s millions of food business owners to scale and grow their their business.

Neem is a leading embedded finance company with a strong vision for financial wellness. Neems Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform enables digital businesses across various industries to provide embedded financial services to their customers. Neem was founded in 2019 by experienced fintech entrepreneurs, Vladimira Briestenska, Nadeem Shaikh and Naeem Zamindar. Neem is backed by global investors, including DNI Group, Arif Habib, Outrun Ventures, SparkLabs Fintech, angel investors from Stripe, PayNet, M-Pesa and more. We are registered in Singapore and operating in Pakistan.

Precium (formerly Revio) is the first African payments platform purpose-built for enterprise. Industry leaders choose Precium to optimise payment performance, automate financial operations, and craft extraordinary customer experiences. The growing list of Precium customers includes South Africa’s largest retailers and financial institutions, and some of the world’s largest consumer brands. We partner with our clients to deliver payment solutions that enable quantifiable business value with the scalability, reliability, and flexibility required for high-volume processing. Get in touch to explore how we can help solve your toughest payments challenges.

Smartlane is Pakistans leading B2B SaaS solution to optimize fulfilment, finance and operations for e-commerce merchants. Launched in 2022, Smartlane aggregates all the last mile players of the country and uses the digital data collected for underwriting. The platform enables e-commerce sellers to: • Integrate their e-stores seamlessly via plugins and APIs • Optimize deliveries through multiple courier partners. • Lower returns and cancellations. • Receive Instant COD cash settlement upon dispatch of goods from their warehouse. • Avail Revenue-Based Financing to grow their business.

Newform Foods is leveraging a continent-spanning research and development network to help food producers, retailers and business owners develop and scale cultivated animal products, at a significantly lower cost than the industry norm. We represent the convergence of cost-efficiency and pioneering science. Through our cutting-edge bioplatform and tailored solutions, including media development, cell line creation, and bioreactor plans, we are your partners in constructing the future of food!

Kuunda builds dynamic, embedded financing solutions that create sustainable economic productivity by providing agent networks, small businesses, and consumers with access to liquidity products and services. Leveraging proprietary credit scoring algorithms, our dynamic borrower profiles are built off real-time behavioural data connected via our channel partners’ existing infrastructure and networks to provide insights into the transactional patterns of agents, small businesses, and consumers. Using the insights generated from these profiles, we enable our partner networks to distribute liquidity to their networks. To date, Kuunda’s algorithms have been utilised in the creation of both short-term, and medium-term lending solutions, spanning use cases from e-float financing and airtime advances, to working capital facilities and stock financing loans to enable small business growth.

Cowrywise is a fintech startup licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria as a fund manager. We are digitizing the investment management industry in Africa and democratizing access to savings and investment products for the growing population of the underserved African middle class and millennials. Our mission is to empower the next generation with powerful wealth-building tools to enable them to improve their financial health. With over 500,000 personal accounts, our growth demonstrates the rapid adoption of digital alternatives to traditional wealth management products. Cowrywise is backed by venture capital firms that share our vision. Our existing investors include Quona Capital, Y Combinator, Venture Souq, SHL Capital and Kairos 50 Ventures. Cowrywise is also the first Nigerian company to be accepted into the Catalyst Fund program, backed by JP Morgan and UKAID. Cowrywise is being built by people with a shared vision that easy access to powerful wealth-building tools is a fundamental financial right everyone deserves.

Tarfin is a leading fintech company that provides farmers with access to high-quality farm inputs with competitive credit terms. Our mission is to use cutting-edge technology and big data analytics to reduce the costs of fertilizers, feed and other farm inputs. Our mission is to make agriculture profitable even for the countrys smaller, underserved farmers.

The SA SME Fund is a registered standalone investment vehicle managed by an executive management team, which reports to an independent board of directors. An independent investment committee is responsible for approving investments into funds that will enable the Fund to fulfil its mandate.

Building super simple accounting and financial tools for entrepreneurs in Africa.

Lua is making AI accessible and useful to companies globally. We make it easy for teams to build their own intelligent agent layer- one that drives outcomes across your business without the big budget lines, consultants or multi-year implementations. With Lua teams roll out agents that are deeply integrated, measurable, and under your control across your entire business. In days not months. We focus on abstracting the complexity required to launch enterprise grade agents and combining it with the tools needed for these agents to succeed in the real world. If you’re building in this space - or trying to figure out how to bring agents into your product, ops, or customer experience - we’d love to connect. Docs: https://docs.heylua.ai/overview

TurnStay thrives at the intersection of fintech and travel, championing hassle-free experiences in travel payments. Our commitment is unwavering: providing clients with seamless access to a comprehensive global payment infrastructure. The result? A dramatic reduction in payment costs and a promise delivered - a fully localized payment journey. Join us as we redefine the financial contours of travel, one transaction at a time

Orca is an AI-driven fraud orchestration platform. We empower fraud fighters to outpace fraud using our custom ML models.