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title: "Standard Bank"
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# Standard Bank

Standard Bank Group is a large Africa focused financial services organization headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, providing universal banking and related financial services across multiple African markets. It operates through a network of country subsidiaries and digital channels, and positions itself as client led and digitally enabled in its core markets. Alongside its core banking activities, Standard Bank invests in technology enabled businesses across Africa, with a particular focus on financial technology. The investment data provided shows activity from 2019 to 2023, across eight funding rounds, largely in South Africa. Over this period Standard Bank participated in seed, venture, Series A, corporate equity and other structured rounds, backing companies such as Tripplo, HelloChoice, TradeSafe, Payment24 and Nomanini in logistics and supply chain, fintech and agri tech. Standard Bank has also entered strategic partnerships to support African startups, including a venture development collaboration with Founders Factory Africa focused on building and growing tech enabled businesses, particularly fintech, across several African countries. Through such initiatives and direct equity investments, Standard Bank supports early stage and growth ventures that improve access, efficiency and digital services in key sectors of the African economy.

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## Summary

Standard Bank Group is a large Africa focused financial services organization headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, providing universal banking and related financial services across multiple African markets. It operates through a network of country subsidiaries and digital channels, and positions itself as client led and digitally enabled in its core markets. Alongside its core banking activities, Standard Bank invests in technology enabled businesses across Africa, with a particular focus on financial technology. The investment data provided shows activity from 2019 to 2023, across eight funding rounds, largely in South Africa. Over this period Standard Bank participated in seed, venture, Series A, corporate equity and other structured rounds, backing companies such as Tripplo, HelloChoice, TradeSafe, Payment24 and Nomanini in logistics and supply chain, fintech and agri tech. Standard Bank has also entered strategic partnerships to support African startups, including a venture development collaboration with Founders Factory Africa focused on building and growing tech enabled businesses, particularly fintech, across several African countries. Through such initiatives and direct equity investments, Standard Bank supports early stage and growth ventures that improve access, efficiency and digital services in key sectors of the African economy.

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## Recorded investments

| Product | URL | Stage | Amount | Date |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paymenow | /paymenow | Debt Financing | 22500000 | 2025-07-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| Float Africa | /float-africa | Debt Financing | 10500000 | 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| Float Africa | /float-africa | Debt Financing | 11000000 | 2024-03-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| Tripplo | /tripplo | Seed | 1800000 | 2023-10-01T00:00:00.000Z |
| Tripplo | /tripplo | Seed |  | 2022-08-01T00:00:00.000Z |

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