Business

Dominique Collett, AlphaCode Venture Partners

These days, if you want to know where South Africa’s next world-beating technology is going to come from, you shouldn’t look at ticker boards on the JSE, but to unlisted tech startups. As pundits flood the internet with forecasts of what tech will be big in 2026, Brainstorm is throwing in its lot too. We’re placing our bets on these six tech startups.

Founded in 2019 by Kiaan Pillay, Junaid Dadan and Priyen Pillay, Stitch is rapidly expanding, having hoovered up two startups, Efficacy Payments and ExiPay, in 2025, to help grow its offering of in-person payments to reatil merchants like Bash.