Investmint

The Investmint history starts with Gareth, the company’s CEO. As a chartered accountant running an accounting practice, Gareth regularly had discussions with clients who were struggling to access financing through traditional channels. In particular, one client had received a purchase order from a well-known retail company but couldn’t raise the funds required to purchase the bottles for his beverage in order to fulfil the order.

Gareth contacted a few friends and raised the capital needed by the client. After repeating the process a few times, Gareth expanded the offering to other clients also needing financing to fulfil orders and immediately saw the positive impact access to funding had on clients’ businesses while at the same time generating decent returns for investors.

In July 2019, the Investmint platform was officially launched to facilitate funding applications from more business owners and expand the investor pool, allowing more people to participate in helping SMEs grow while earning attractive returns on their capital.

The business grew from strength to strength until March 2020 when South Africa was forced into the COVID-19 lockdown. Investmint survived the pandemic – the business resumed operations in October 2021 with the addition of a Business Development Executive and a Marketing Assistant with the aim to grow the business and its platform.

Today, Investmint has placed more than R30m in the hands of SMEs aiding them to grow and realise their potential. The management team of Investmint is pursuing an aggressive growth strategy and therefore seeking to raise capital in order to increase the company’s borrower base, expand the investor pool and further develop the Investmint platform enabling the company to achieve their goal of helping SMES in South Africa grow.