<p>Co-founder and CEO Katlego Maphai <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tobyshapshak/2017/10/04/fintech-startup-yoco-is-making-payments-in-south-africa-go-mobile/">launched Yoco</a> with three friends in October 2015. From a year-long beta with 500 merchants, they are now adding 10,000 new merchants a month. He tells Stuff Studio’s editor-in-chief Toby Shapshak about the phenomenal rise of this remarkable mobile payments business, that has now evolved into a payments platform. Read more on <a href="https://stuff.co.za/">Stuff Studios</a>.</p>

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Toby Shapshak writes and speaks about how innovation, especially fintech, is better in Africa. His TED Global talk has over 1,5-million views. He is editor-in-chief of Stuff, a Forbes senior contributor and a Business Day columnist. 
He has covered tech, mobile and Africa's tech and start-up ecosystem for 20 years, including for Forbes, CNN and The Guardian.
Named in GQ's top 30 men in media and Mail &amp; Guardian newspaper's influential young South Africans, GQ said Shapshak "has become the most high-profile tech journalist in the country".