Company profile

CrissCross Tech (Pty) Ltd

CrissCross Tech (Pty) Ltd (CrissCross) is a South African payments infrastructure company that provides enterprise cross-border collections, payouts, foreign exchange and corporate treasury management through a single API. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Cape Town, CrissCross connects blockchain-based settlement with local bank and mobile money rails in more than 30 African markets, including Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa, and supports more than 20 currencies. CrissCross serves multinational enterprises, financial institutions and digital platforms. CrissCross Tech is an authorised financial services provider with South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority, and Crisscross FX Limited is registered as a money services business with FINTRAC in Canada. In September 2026, CrissCross announced that CrissCross FX is a South African Reserve Bank approved Treasury Outsourcing Company for cross-border invoice settlement, and in October 2026 CrissCross partnered with Velocity to connect institutional stablecoin liquidity to African markets.

Sector

Financial services / Cross-Border Payments, Payments Infrastructure

Markets

Burundi, Rwanda, Angola, Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Mauritius, Mali, Malawi, Madagascar, Ghana, Gabon, Ethiopia, Egypt, Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Benin

Founded

2022

Ownership

Private

Stage

Scale-up

Employees

11-50

Business model

B2B Transactional, Financial Services

Products and services

Local Collections (pay-ins via local methods), Automated Payouts (bulk payouts to banks and wallets), Corporate Treasury (multi-currency accounts and liquidity), CrissCross FX (real-time FX and invoice settlement), Stablecoin On-ramps & Off-ramps (fiat to USDC and USDT)

Transactions

Source: Partner Researchers.