🇿🇦 South Africa · Johannesburg · SAST (UTC+2)
South Africa Marketing
Growth marketing, AI automation, brand design and web development — one senior team, one flat fee from $1,999/mo. Naspers/Prosus, Discovery Health, Yoco — South Africa’s JSE is Africa’s most globally-integrated capital market. We help South African companies reach the international investors and buyers they deserve.
- $100B+
- Naspers/Prosus market cap — world’s most valuable African company
- JSE + Euronext
- Africa’s most developed dual-listed capital markets
- $1.5T+
- JSE total market cap — Africa’s largest stock exchange
- SAST (UTC+2)
- EU CET overlap — London 1 hour behind
Why South Africa
Africa’s most globally-integrated capital market — and the anchor of Sub-Saharan enterprise.
Naspers ($100B+ combined Naspers/Prosus market cap, JSE-listed and Euronext-listed) is the world’s most valuable African company — built from Cape Town’s MIH Media and transformed through early investments in Tencent (31.2% stake, worth $100B+), OLX, Delivery Hero, and PayU across 30+ countries. The Tencent investment, made in 2001 for $32M, became the most successful single technology investment in history by return multiple.
Takealot (acquired by Amazon in 2023 for reported $1B+, South Africa’s dominant e-commerce platform, founded Cape Town) and WooCommerce (acquired by Automattic for $30M+ in 2015, now powering 28% of all e-commerce stores globally) demonstrate South African-built e-commerce technology reaching global acquisition quality.
Discovery Health (JSE-listed, 3.7M+ medical aid members, the world’s most innovative health insurance model with the Vitality behavioral incentive programme, licensed to Manulife, Generali, AIA, and Ping An in 32 countries) is South Africa’s most globally-replicated business model.
Yoco ($83M Series C, Partech/Velocity/Quona Capital backed, 200,000+ SME merchants in South Africa) and TymeBank (African Rainbow Capital/JG Summit backed, 9M+ customers, profitable 3 years after launch) represent South Africa’s new generation of fintech companies with Pan-African expansion ambitions.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange ($1.5T+ market cap, Africa’s largest stock exchange, dual-listings common with LSE and Euronext) makes South Africa the most globally-integrated capital market in Africa. Standard Bank, FirstRand, Absa, and Nedbank are all globally-active banking institutions with Continental African operations.
SAST (UTC+2) provides EU CET business hour overlap (London is 1 hour behind) and covers the full working day for all Sub-Saharan African markets. South Africa’s SADC and AGOA trade agreements, common law legal system, and English-language business culture make it the most accessible African market for EU and US institutional buyers.
What we do
Services for South African companies
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01Do you work with South African companies in the Naspers/Prosus ecosystem?
Yes. Naspers ($100B+ Naspers/Prosus market cap, Tencent/OLX/Delivery Hero/PayU portfolio) is the world’s most valuable African technology investment company, built from Cape Town. Marketing South African technology companies to international institutional investors and corporate acquirers is a specific capability.
02Can you help South African fintech companies like Yoco and TymeBank reach EU investors?
Yes. Yoco ($83M Series C, 200,000+ merchants) and TymeBank (9M+ customers, profitable) represent South Africa’s new fintech generation. Marketing digital banking, SME payments, and financial inclusion platforms to Partech, Velocity Capital, and EU institutional investors is a specific capability.
03Do you work with South African healthtech companies licensing the Discovery Vitality model?
Yes. Discovery Health (JSE-listed, Vitality programme licensed in 32 countries to Manulife, Generali, AIA, and Ping An) is the world’s most globally-replicated health insurance model. Marketing South African healthtech and behavioral health platforms to international health insurance and reinsurance buyers is a specific capability.
04Can you help JSE-listed companies with investor relations marketing?
Yes. JSE-listed and JSE/LSE dual-listed companies face investor relations requirements across multiple regulatory jurisdictions. Building integrated investor communications that meet JSE, FCA, and SEC standards — annual reports, ESG disclosures, earnings call content, and institutional investor outreach — is a specific capability.
05What does it cost to work with Heptism from South Africa?
Plans start from $1,999/mo in USD. No minimum contract. Month to month. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice.
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