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SA fintech startup Ozow raises $48m Series B funding round 0 By Tom Jackson on November 17, 2021 News , Southern Africa South African fintech company Ozow has raised a US$48 million Series B funding round to help it further develop its product offering and expand into new markets. Ozow , which rebranded from i-Pay in April 2019 as it zeroed in on assisting SMEs with payments, was launched in November 2014 by Thomas Pays, Mitchan Adams and Lyle Eckstein, who identified a need for an efficient and secure online payment system in the local market.

SA fintech startup Ozow raises $48m Series B funding round 0 By Tom Jackson on November 17, 2021 News , Southern Africa South African fintech company Ozow has raised a US$48 million Series B funding round to help it further develop its product offering and expand into new markets. Ozow , which rebranded from i-Pay in April 2019 as it zeroed in on assisting SMEs with payments, was launched in November 2014 by Thomas Pays, Mitchan Adams and Lyle Eckstein, who identified a need for an efficient and secure online payment system in the local market.

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Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Series B — a $15M–$40M round). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks. Directional, not a quoted figure.

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Benchmarked against 2 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.

Raised more than 100% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 100% of peers (estimate).

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.

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

1. Series B$48.0M2021-11-17
   • First recorded raise — entered as Series B.
   • 3 investors on this round.

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