Companies · Fintech

Floatpays IncSummer 2021Active

Cape Town · WC, South Africa; Remote · Fintech · founded 2021 · https://www.floatpays.com

Diligence memoA one-page analyst read on Floatpays Inc — recommendation, valuation, rhythm, risks.
$4.0M
Total raised · real
1
Rounds
Latest step-up
Top 18%
Sector rank · raised
Seed
Latest stage · inferred · Wed Jan 26 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Floatpays Inc looks over-valued against its niche peers and is dormant on financing cadence.

Synthesized from the figures below est. — every claim rests on a number shown on this page. Valuation uses the fintech sector profile.

Analyst read est. — computed against this company's niche peers in the same era. Inputs shown; not a quoted figure.

Over-valued
  • Modeled value is 2.99× the median modeled value of Seed Fintech companies in 2022–2024 (53 peers) — value vs value, same stage and era.
Dormant
  • Last raise 4.4 yr ago; this sector typically re-raises about every 12 months.
  • Only one round on record and long silent — often defunct, acquired, or gone quiet.
Leadership

No named principal in this company's public records yet — see all operators below.

5 Investors
Where it sits in Fintech

Floatpays Inc is one of 1063 Fintech companies tracked from Cape Town, WC, South Africa; Remote, on record since 2021. By capital raised it ranks in the upper tier (ahead of 83% of sector peers), and in the upper tier by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

AI analyst read est. — model-extracted from this company's public description, not a verified fact. 30%

operates a technology-led product inferred from public copy

Grounded in: “You are a venture analyst

SA fintech startup Floatpays raises $4m seed funding round for African expansion 0 By Tom Jackson on January 26, 2022 News , Southern Africa South African on-demand pay provider Floatpays has secured just under US$4 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to help it expand across Africa. Founded in 2019 and a participant in the S21 cohort of the Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator accelerator , Floatpays is a technology platform that enables on-demand access to pay, seamless savings functionality and financial education to build employee financial wellness.

SA fintech startup Floatpays raises $4m seed funding round for African expansion 0 By Tom Jackson on January 26, 2022 News , Southern Africa South African on-demand pay provider Floatpays has secured just under US$4 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to help it expand across Africa. Founded in 2019 and a participant in the S21 cohort of the Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator accelerator , Floatpays is a technology platform that enables on-demand access to pay, seamless savings functionality and financial education to build employee financial wellness.

FintechSaaSfintechhardware/semi
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As reported in public records reported — not modeled.

ZA
Jurisdiction
5
Investors (latest)
Amount raised vs valuation, by round

Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Amount raised · realModeled valuation · estCumulative funded · real
$0$25M$50M$75M$100MSeed · 2022-01-26 Raised $4.0M (real) Modeled valuation $66M (est)$4.0M$66MSeed2022

The line shows cumulative reported funding over the period; + labels show new capital added between points when there is room. Toggle on-bar figures, plus the niche-peer and market averages, to read this company against its cohort. Benchmarks are modeled medians.

Financing ladder & sequence gaps
Seed$4.0M · 2022

Stages are modeled from round size (public records carry no series label). No record for: Pre-Seed — the company may have raised it under a different exemption, merged it into an adjacent record, or skipped it. Sequence completeness: 50%.

Modeled valuation trajectory
$65.7M
Base estimate est.
$3.5M
Conservative case
$337.0M
Upside case
$20.0M
Modeled post-money

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Seeda $1.0M–$4.0M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the fintech sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Model inputs · modeled:benchmark-stage-stepup-v1
20%
Dilution assumption
Implied ownership sold in the financing.
38%
Survival probability
17% low · 60% high
1.62×/yr
Annual markup
2.13×/yr upside case
4.4 yr
Elapsed time used
4.4 yr actual, capped for stale marks
fintech
Sector profile
Adjusts growth and survival by industry.
Financing rhythm
Avg between rounds
Capital velocity
4.4 yr
On record since
2022
First round
1
Rounds on file
How it compares to the market

Benchmarked against 1063 companies in Fintech. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Total raised — vs sector median (real $, all stages) 0.9× of median
This company$4.0M
Sector median$4.3M
Latest round — vs other Seed rounds in sector (real $, this stage) 2.0× above median
This company$4.0M
Sector median$2.0M
Modeled value — vs sector median (estimate, all stages) 1.5× above median
This company$65.7M
Sector median$45.0M

Raised more than 83% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 86% of peers (estimate).

Niche peers — same stage & era

A tighter cohort than the sector chart above — only companies at the same stage (Seed) that last raised in the same ~3-year era, ranked by modeled value est. (not money raised). This is the exact set the analyst read compares against, so a like-for-like cohort is what makes "over/under-valued" meaningful. This company ranks #1 of 53.

This companyCohort peer
$10.0M$100.0M$1.0M$10.0M$100.0MCapital raised (log)Sote, Inc. · Seed Raised $11.3M · modeled $65.5M (est)Earnipay · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $63.7M (est)Pink Swan Trading, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.3M · modeled $55.7M (est)Tweed Payments Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $53.7M (est)Coverage Cat Inc. · Seed Raised $4.0M · modeled $52.7M (est)Remedial Health · Seed Raised $4.4M · modeled $52.7M (est)Duplo · Seed Raised $4.3M · modeled $52.6M (est)Flash · Seed Raised $6.0M · modeled $48.3M (est)Mobie Payments, Inc. · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $47.0M (est)BluePenguin Payments Inc. · Seed Raised $3.2M · modeled $45.5M (est)ImaliPay · Seed Raised $3.0M · modeled $44.6M (est)Floatpays Inc (this company) Raised $4.0M · modeled $65.7M (est)Floatpays Inc
CompanyStageRaised · realValue · estvs peer med.
Floatpays Inc this companySeed$4.0M$65.7M2.99×
Sote, Inc.Seed$11.3M$65.5M2.98×
EarnipaySeed$4.0M$63.7M2.90×
Pink Swan Trading, Inc.Seed$3.3M$55.7M2.53×
Tweed Payments Inc.Seed$4.0M$53.7M2.44×
Coverage Cat Inc.Seed$4.0M$52.7M2.40×
Remedial HealthSeed$4.4M$52.7M2.40×
DuploSeed$4.3M$52.6M2.39×
FlashSeed$6.0M$48.3M2.19×
Mobie Payments, Inc.Seed$3.0M$47.0M2.14×
BluePenguin Payments Inc.Seed$3.2M$45.5M2.07×
ImaliPaySeed$3.0M$44.6M2.03×
Full financing history

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

StageAmount · realAnnouncedPost-money · estValue · estConf.
Seed$4.0M2022-01-26$20.0M$65.7M45%
What happened at each round

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

  1. Seed$4.0M2022-01-26
    • First recorded raise — entered as Seed.
    • 5 investors on this round.
Intelligence
Modeled next raise
$6.4M
Modeled next size est.range $4.2M$10.2M
Last step-up
Capital velocity

Predictive signals are modeled est. from this company's own cadence and step-up, plus sector benchmarks — directional, not advice. Peer set and a CSV export live in your analyst workspace.

Registry & provenance

Floatpays Inc is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

United States
Country of record
ZA
Jurisdiction
Similar companies

Nearest neighbours across the whole database — matched on sector, stage and capital scale, and on shared operators (officers or directors named at both companies in public filings). A discovery shortlist, not a valuation cohort — verify before acting, the same way modeled figures are directional.

CompanySectorStageRaised · realValue · estWhy similar
Coverage Cat Inc.FintechSeed$4.0M$52.7Msame sector · same stage
EarnipayFintechSeed$4.0M$63.7Msame sector · same stage
KwaraFintechSeed$4.0M$70.0Msame sector · same stage
PayTicFintechSeed$4.0M$13.9Msame sector · same stage
StitchFintechSeed$4.0M$102.5Msame sector · same stage
Talli Digital Payments, Inc.FintechSeed$4.0M$18.9Msame sector · same stage
Tweed Payments Inc.FintechSeed$4.0M$53.7Msame sector · same stage
ZealFintechSeed$4.0M$25.0Msame sector · same stage
Semantically similar

Matched by meaning, not labels — a local language model reads each company's name, sector and description and ranks the closest in that learned space. This catches look-alikes that cross sector boundaries; the structured list above explains its matches, this one trusts the text. Directional, like every modeled signal here.

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Wagetap
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Stream Pay Platforms Africa Inc.FintechPre-Seed$1.2M77%
Eazipay Inc.
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Fintech77%
Wave
Mobile money app for Africa
Fintech77%
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NextPay
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Investors

Public records name issuer insiders, not the funds in a round — these investor links come from corroborating sources.

FirmRoundConfidence
Base CapitalSeed55%
Finca VenturesSeed55%
Global Founders CapitalSeed55%
Kepple Africa VenturesSeed55%
MFS InvestmentsSeed55%
Frequently asked
How much funding has Floatpays Inc raised?
Floatpays Inc has raised approximately $4.0M in disclosed capital across 1 recorded financing round, aggregated from public filings.
What is Floatpays Inc's estimated valuation?
Provath's modeled valuation for Floatpays Inc is approximately $65.7M (modeled range $3.5M–$337.0M). This is an algorithmic estimate derived from round sizes and same-niche peers — not a quoted or reported figure.
What funding stage is Floatpays Inc at?
Floatpays Inc's latest modeled financing stage is Seed. Its most recent recorded round closed around Wed Jan 26.
What does Floatpays Inc do and where is it based?
Floatpays Inc operates in the Fintech sector, based in Cape Town, WC, South Africa; Remote. SA fintech startup Floatpays raises $4m seed funding round for African expansion 0 By Tom Jackson on January 26, 2022 News , Southern Africa South African on-demand pay provider Floatpays has secured just under US$4 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round to help it expand across Africa. Founded in 2019 and a participant in the S21 cohort of the Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator accelerator , Floatpays is a technology platform that enables on-demand access to pay, seamless savings functionality and financial education to build employee financial wellness.
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