iGaming companies in Africa
Operators and suppliers headquartered in Africa, where mobile-first betting has grown faster than the regulatory frameworks around it.
31 companies
BANZAI Partners
AffiliatesSeychellesBANZAI Partners is the affiliate programme of BanzaiBET, an online casino and sportsbook operator running an in-house platform with more than 14,000 casino games plus sports betting, poker and crash games. The programme recruits webmasters to send traffic to markets including India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia, and pays on four models: revenue share on net gaming revenue, CPA on first deposits, hybrid deals combining both, and a sub-referral percentage on recruited partners. The programme reports around 10,000 registered affiliates and has operated since 2020. Its registered base is in the Seychelles.
Bet9ja
OperatorsNigeriaBet9ja is the largest sports betting and online casino operator in Nigeria, launched on 10 September 2013 by Ayo Ojuroye and Kunle Soname and headquartered in Lagos. It trades through KC Gaming Networks Limited under a licence from the Lagos State Lotteries Board, with permission extending to other parts of the country. Its reach is unusual for a gambling brand: bet9ja.com ranked as the third most visited website in Nigeria in 2020, behind only Google and YouTube. Nigerian gambling is licensed at state rather than federal level following a Supreme Court ruling on the limits of national lottery powers, so operators assemble coverage state by state, and Lagos remains the licence that matters most.
Betika
OperatorsKenyaBetika is Kenya's largest sports betting operator, founded in 2016 and operated by Shop and Deliver Limited from Nairobi, offering sports betting, casino games, virtual sports and jackpots through its website, apps, SMS and USSD channels for feature-phone users. It has expanded across Africa with licensed operations in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, integrates with mobile money services including M-Pesa, and sponsors Kenyan football and athletics. Betika is privately owned and positions itself as a pan-African operator built for mobile-money markets.
BetKing
OperatorsNigeriaBetKing is a Nigerian sports betting operator founded in 2018 and headquartered in Lagos, running an online sportsbook, virtual games and casino alongside an agent-based retail network across Nigeria, with operations in Ethiopia and Kenya. Owned by a technology group that took a majority stake in 2020 and 2021, it has grown into one of the largest licensed operators in Nigeria, sponsors Nigerian football and runs its own platform and mobile-money integrations.
BetOlimp South Africa
OperatorsSouth AfricaBetOlimp is a South Africa facing online betting and gaming platform that combines sportsbook betting with casino content on one account. On its own site, it presents itself primarily as a sportsbook brand, offering pre match and live betting across thousands of sporting events each month, while also supporting casino, live games, lucky numbers and virtual products. The site states that BetOlimp is operated by O L I M P (Pty) Ltd and is licensed and regulated by the Western Cape Gambling & Racing Board.
betPawa
OperatorsKenyabetPawa is a pan-African online sports betting operator licensed in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Cameroon, Malawi, Mozambique and other markets, built around low minimum stakes, mobile-money deposits and a light app for low-bandwidth users. Founded in 2014 by a Danish-led team and run from Nairobi with operations across the continent, it has grown to one of the largest operators by customers in several of its markets and sponsors football leagues and national teams.
Cellulant
PaymentsKenyaCellulant is a pan-African payments company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Nairobi, providing a single payment platform, Tingg, that connects merchants to mobile money, bank and card rails in more than thirty African countries, with licensed betting operators among the merchants using it for deposits and payouts in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and elsewhere. It holds payment licences in its major markets and sells to global merchants entering Africa.
Flutterwave
PaymentsNigeriaFlutterwave is an African payments technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Lagos and San Francisco, providing merchants with card, mobile-money and bank-transfer acceptance and payouts across more than thirty African countries, including licensed sports betting and gaming operators in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and elsewhere. It holds payment licences in its major markets and has raised venture funding at a multi-billion-dollar valuation.
Goldrush Group
OperatorsSouth AfricaGoldrush Group is a licensed gambling operator headquartered in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa, with interests in sports betting, electronic bingo, limited payout machine route operations and a casino. It describes itself as South Africa's largest independent alternative gambling operator and says it was awarded the first bingo licences in Gauteng in 1998. Its brands include Goldrush, Gbets, Betnova, Bingo Royale and Crazy Slots, and it runs two online sports betting sites, goldrush.co.za and gbets.co.za. The group states that Gbets is licensed by the Western Cape Gaming and Racing Board and that it holds bookmaker licences in eight provinces, with operations in Lesotho. From June 2026 it also operates South Africa's national lottery under the Sizekhaya brand. Its largest shareholder is JSE-listed Goldrush Holdings Limited.
Hollywoodbets
OperatorsSouth AfricaHollywoodbets is the largest licensed bookmaker in South Africa, founded in Durban in 2000 and originally trading as Winning Form, with its first branch on Argyle Road. Its purple branding is among the most recognisable in African sport. It runs a retail estate of more than 80 branches alongside a substantial online business, licensed separately by the provincial gambling boards of KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Free State, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, because South Africa regulates bookmaking province by province rather than nationally. It has since expanded into the United Kingdom, Ireland and Mozambique, and is a prominent sponsor across South African cricket, football and racing.
Interswitch
PaymentsNigeriaInterswitch is a Nigerian payments and digital commerce company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Lagos, operating the Verve card scheme, the Quickteller consumer platform and switching infrastructure across Nigeria and other African markets, and processing deposits and payouts for licensed sports betting operators, which are among the largest online merchant categories in Nigeria. It holds switching and payment licences from the Central Bank of Nigeria and is partly owned by Visa.
Kiron Interactive
SuppliersSouth AfricaKiron Interactive is a virtual sports supplier founded in 2001 with headquarters in Johannesburg and offices in London and Malta, developing virtual football, horse and greyhound racing, motor racing, basketball and other virtual games with fixed-odds betting, supplied to retail betting shops and online operators in Africa, Europe, Latin America and Asia through its Betman retail platform and online integrations. It holds certifications in Britain, Malta, South Africa, Italy, Colombia and other regulated markets and is one of the largest virtual sports providers in Africa.
LottoStar
OperatorsSouth AfricaLottoStar is a licensed online fixed-odds betting operator headquartered in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa, operated by LottoStar (Pty) Ltd. The company states that it is approved, licensed and regulated by the Mpumalanga Economic Regulator under licence number 9-2-1-09467. It offers fixed-odds bets on the outcomes of international lotteries alongside scratchcards, Reel Rush games, live games, arcade and quick games, available on desktop and mobile. It describes Lottostar.co.za as the first website of its kind launched exclusively for the South African market and trades under the tagline Your World of Live Games. The company runs corporate social responsibility initiatives across medical, recreational, sport, educational and community causes.
M-Pesa
PaymentsKenyaM-Pesa is the mobile-money service launched by Safaricom in Kenya in 2007 and now operated across Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt and other markets, through which tens of millions of users send money, pay bills and fund online services from their phones. It is the dominant deposit and withdrawal method for licensed sports betting operators in Kenya and Tanzania, integrated through paybill numbers and APIs, and its transaction data has been central to Kenya's betting tax debates.
MTN MoMo
PaymentsSouth AfricaMTN MoMo is the mobile money service of the MTN Group, run through MTN's fintech subsidiary and used by tens of millions of people across Ghana, Uganda, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Zambia, Benin, Nigeria and other African markets to store, send and pay from their phones. It is one of the principal deposit and withdrawal methods for licensed sports betting operators in those countries, integrated through its merchant API and payment partners, and its transaction data features in the betting tax debates in Ghana and Uganda.
Odibets
OperatorsKenyaOdibets is a licensed online sports betting operator headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operated by Kareco Holdings Limited from Parklands. The company states that it is authorised and regulated by Kenya's Gambling Regulatory Authority under the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act, holding a bookmaking licence and a public gaming licence. It says it has run an online and SMS betting platform in Kenya and Ghana since 2018, and it promotes a lightweight Android app. Customers can bet pre-match and in-play on more than 50 sports, as well as on jackpots, virtual games including OdiLeague, esports and casino games. Deposits are made through the M-Pesa mobile money service.
OTT Voucher
PaymentsSouth AfricaOTT Voucher is a digital cash voucher operated by OTT Mobile Technologies, a South African fintech that enables consumers who transact in cash to pay online, including at betting sites. Consumers buy vouchers through a partner network the company says spans more than 450,000 stores, then redeem them to pay, play, shop, save, invest, insure and top up accounts online. OTT Mobile also offers instant cash collection for remittances, an aggregated cash payout service and the OTT4Me app with a loyalty and rewards programme, and reports more than three million active users. Its partners include retailers, forecourts, banks and financial institutions, and its website refers to redemption at Hollywood Bets.
Ozow
PaymentsSouth AfricaOzow is a South African payment gateway specialising in instant bank-to-bank (pay by bank) payments, used by merchants including licensed betting operators. Its products include instant EFT, card payments, Capitec Pay, Absa Pay, FNB Pay and Nedbank Direct EFT, PayShap Request, refunds and payouts, voucher redemption, crypto payments and Apple Pay and Google Pay, alongside the consumer products Ozow.ME and Ozow POCKET. The company says it links businesses of all sizes in South Africa with 47 million bank account holders, and the merchant logos on its website include Betway, Sportingbet, Hollywoodbets, World Sports Betting and the South African National Lottery.
Paystack
PaymentsNigeriaPaystack is a Nigerian payments company founded in 2015 and acquired by Stripe in 2020, providing card, bank-transfer, USSD and mobile-money acceptance and payouts to merchants in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya and other African markets, including licensed betting and gaming operators where its policies permit. It is headquartered in Lagos and operates under Nigerian and other national payment licences.
Peach Payments
PaymentsSouth AfricaPeach Payments is a payment orchestration and gateway provider headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, serving merchants in more than 15 African markets, including betting and gaming operators. Its products cover online payments, payment links, point of sale, recurring payments, payouts, payment pages and embedded checkout, and it supports cards, pay by bank (EFT), buy now pay later, QR codes, digital wallets, vouchers and cryptocurrency. A dedicated betting and gaming offering provides automated pay-ins and payouts with free next business day settlement. The company is PCI DSS Level 1 certified and has acquired the West African payments gateway PayDunya.
Peermont
OperatorsSouth AfricaPeermont is a hotel, casino and resort group headquartered at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa. Operating as Peermont Hotels, Casinos and Resorts, it says it runs 11 properties across South Africa and Botswana, including Emperors Palace, Graceland, Umfolozi, Frontier Inn, Rio, Mmabatho Palms, Thaba Moshate, Khoroni and Mondior Gaborone. Founded in 1995, it rebranded as Peermont Global in 2003. According to the company, a consortium led by the Mineworkers Investment Company acquired Peermont in 2007, after which it delisted from the JSE. Emperors Palace received its Gauteng casino licence in 1998. Peermont launched the online sportsbook PalaceBet in October 2020 and added slots to PalaceBet in 2022.
Pulse 8 Studios
SuppliersSouth AfricaPulse 8 Studios is a Cape Town-based slot studio founded in 2019 that develops exclusively for Games Global, building slots such as Silverback Multiplier Mountain and Age of Conquest, distributed through Games Global's platform to operators in Britain, Europe, Ontario and other regulated markets. Its games are certified by an accredited test house before release in each regulated market.
Slingshot Studios
SuppliersSouth AfricaSlingshot Studios is a Cape Town-based slot studio founded in 2016 that develops exclusively for Games Global, building slots such as Tiki Vikings and Book of Atem, distributed through Games Global's platform to operators in Britain, Europe, Ontario, Latin America and other regulated markets. Its games are certified by an accredited test house before release in each regulated market.
SportPesa
OperatorsKenyaSportPesa is the best-known sports betting brand in Kenya, launched in Nairobi in 2014 by Pevans East Africa. It grew rapidly on mobile money distribution and sponsorship of Kenyan and English football, reaching annual revenue reported at 150 billion shillings at its 2018 peak. Its history is also the clearest case study in African regulatory risk. Its licence was withdrawn in 2019 amid a dispute with the government over betting taxation, and the brand returned to the Kenyan market in 2022 under Milestone Games, licensed by the Betting Control and Licensing Board. Ronald Karauri, a shareholder in the original Pevans business, leads the company. Operators building on mobile money in East Africa look at SportPesa as the template for both the scale available and the speed at which it can be removed.
SportyBet
OperatorsNigeriaSportyBet is an online sports betting and casino operator licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and other African markets, and one of the largest operators on the continent by handle, built on a fast mobile product, instant cash-out, mobile-money payments and heavy football sponsorship. It is part of the Sporty group, which also runs the Sportybet-branded esports and media businesses, and has expanded into Brazil under the federal licensing regime.
Stormcraft Studios
SuppliersSouth AfricaStormcraft Studios is a Durban-based slot studio founded in 2017 that develops exclusively for Games Global, building slots such as Fortunium and Agent Jane Blonde Returns, distributed through Games Global's platform to operators in Britain, Europe, Ontario and other regulated markets. Its games are certified by an accredited test house before release in each regulated market.
Sun International
OperatorsSouth AfricaSun International is a Johannesburg-listed South African gaming and hospitality group operating casinos including GrandWest in Cape Town, Time Square in Pretoria, Sun City and Sibaya, together with hotels, resorts and the SunBet online sportsbook and casino licensed in the Western Cape and other provinces. Founded by Sol Kerzner in 1983, it has exited most of its Latin American operations to concentrate on South Africa, where it is the largest casino operator by revenue and a growing online operator through SunBet.
Supabets
OperatorsSouth AfricaSupabets is a South African sports betting operator licensed by provincial gambling boards, running retail betting outlets across the country and an online sportsbook, virtual games and lucky numbers products, with a large presence in township and retail betting. Founded in 2013, it is one of the larger domestic operators in the South African market alongside Hollywoodbets, Betway and Sportingbet.
Tsogo Sun
OperatorsSouth AfricaTsogo Sun is a Johannesburg-listed South African gaming group operating casinos including Montecasino in Johannesburg, Suncoast in Durban and Gold Reef City, together with bingo halls, limited-payout machine routes and the Galaxy Bingo and Tsogo Sun-branded online sportsbook and casino products licensed provincially. It separated from its hotels business in 2019 and is one of the two dominant casino groups in South Africa, with a growing online business under provincial licences.
WarriorLab
SuppliersSouth Africa"WarriorLab is a global Management Consulting firm, renowned for delivering award-winning strategic expertise to the iGaming industry. 𝗔𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱'𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲: • Workshops and Training • VIP Program Design and Development • B2C Operations, Strategy, and Structure • Player Development • Conversion, Retention, Optimisation, and Growth • Analytics and Audits As an industry leader in these niches, WarriorLab provides unparalleled strategic services that have set the benchmark for quality and impact, earning us acclaim and recognition. Our custom-tailored solutions and projects are delivered with dedication to the highest level of service excellence, reflected in our award-winning people and approach. Through applying unmatched industry knowledge and specialised skills, we empower organisations to build and grow sustainable competitive advantage."
World Sports Betting
OperatorsSouth AfricaWorld Sports Betting (WSB) is a South African sports betting operator founded in 2002 and licensed by the Gauteng and other provincial gambling boards, running an online sportsbook, retail outlets and horse racing betting, with a long-standing presence in South African racing and cricket sponsorship. It is one of the established domestic bookmakers in South Africa's provincially regulated market.