“Can a consolidated South African payments processor become the omnichannel financial OS for SMMEs across sub-Saharan Africa?”
Founded 2009 as a POS/SaaS solutions provider focused on South Africa's hospitality industry. Backed by Apis Growth Fund I and African Rainbow Capital, the company consolidated several fintech and payment brands under the 'adumo' name in 2022 to become SA's largest independent payments processor. Acquired by Nasdaq-listed Lesaka Technologies in 2024 for ~$85.9M, positioning the combined entity as a leading southern Africa fintech serving SMMEs across card acceptance, capital, payouts, and engagement.
Adumo processes payments through adumo Payments (self-operated), adumo Online (self-operated), adumo Connect (integrated payments, self-operated), adumo Infinite (self-operated), adumo Payment Gateway (self-operated) and adumo Payment Link (self-operated).
Adumo's cards are issued through adumo (in-house, Premium Imali Card prepaid program).
Adumo's lending and capital products are provided by GoTyme Bank, Float (card-linked instalments), TymeBank (MoreTyme BNPL) and switchpay (in-store finance orchestration).
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 3 layers in Adumo's stack: Payments / PSP (adumo Payments (self-operated), adumo Online (self-operated), adumo Connect (integrated payments, self-operated), adumo Infinite (self-operated) and 2 others); Card issuing (adumo (in-house, Premium Imali Card prepaid program)); Lending (GoTyme Bank, Float (card-linked instalments), TymeBank (MoreTyme BNPL), switchpay (in-store finance orchestration) and 4 others).
Adumo was founded by Paul Kent and is founded in 2009, headquartered in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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