Wayne Stocks

Stitch payments solutions help businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, enabling them to deliver a better user experience and to optimize operations. We’re modernising and improving financial infrastructure with a mission to build a financial system that works for all.

Stocks & Strauss Fund Managers is a leading investor in South Africa’s high-growth and deep-tech sectors, supporting companies that are transforming industries with innovative technologies. In addition to managing the University Technology Fund I (UTF I) and University Technology Fund II (UTF II), Stocks & Strauss also invests in high-growth ventures founded by university alumni. We focus on businesses that leverage intellectual property to solve real-world problems, spanning industries such as life sciences, AI, cleantech, medtech, advanced materials, and more. Stocks & Strauss is committed to advancing South African innovation by commercializing groundbreaking technologies and enabling their growth on the global stage.

Stitch payments solutions help businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, enabling them to deliver a better user experience and to optimize operations. We’re modernising and improving financial infrastructure with a mission to build a financial system that works for all.

JUMO is a financial technology company that partners with banks, MNOs and other e-commerce players to deliver progressive financial choices to customers in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. At JUMO we connect people to opportunities. Two billion people worldwide have limited access to formal financial services such as borrowing and saving. We’ve built a large-scale, multi-sided technology platform and designed progressive financial choices to reach them. We use their digital footprint to create a financial identity using only behavioural data. Our customers are in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. Most of them are micro and small to medium enterprises who need instant access to finance so they can grow and invest. So far we’ve served more than 10 million customers and disbursed over 40 million loans – and the numbers are rising daily.

Stocks & Strauss is an investment holding company with a focus to invest in profitable, high growth companies.

Orientis Venture Capital is one of the highest risk takers within the investment community. Based on rock-solid relationships in the Southern African region, ASEAN and China; we operate in partnership with various venture capital and private equity firms in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China, including Shanghai and Guangzhou.