About Gestion A product of Afrigenius · Made in South Africa

We're building the operating system for African business.

Gestion unifies finance, people, projects and assets in one platform — and keeps the clean books that turn ambitious businesses into bankable ones. Our mission is simple: help every African enterprise run with confidence and grow.

Finance
People
Projects
Assets
Why we exist

Great African businesses were being held back by their tools

We watched capable, hard-working businesses run on a tangle of spreadsheets, paper files and disconnected apps. Invoices got lost. Assets walked out the door. And when it mattered most — applying for funding — their records simply weren't ready, so the bank said no.

Gestion was born in 2019 at Afrigenius, in Cape Town — first as an internal tool to run our own projects, finances and invoices. One platform that handles the day-to-day administration of a business and keeps the clean, credible records that open doors — to lenders, to investors, to growth. We call it becoming bankable.

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Before Gestion With Gestion
Scattered spreadsheets One connected platform
Invoices chased by hand Paid faster, automatically
Assets going missing Every asset accounted for
"The bank said no" Loan-ready records
4
businesses run on Gestion
R 2M
invoiced in our first month
100%
South African, built & supported
14 hrs
admin saved, per week

Our mission: make every African business bankable

Access to capital changes everything — it's how a small business becomes a big one, how jobs are created, how communities grow. But lenders can only back what they can read. By keeping your records clean and your reporting ready, Gestion doesn't just run your business — it makes it fundable. That's the future we're building, one business at a time.

What we believe

The principles behind everything we build

Not slogans — the standards we hold ourselves to, every release.

Built for Africa, not adapted to it

We design around rands, VAT, POPIA, mobile-first teams and real-world bandwidth — because software built for elsewhere never quite fits.

Bankability is the point

Clean books open doors. Every feature ladders up to one outcome: making your business credible, fundable and ready to grow.

One platform, no silos

Disconnected tools create blind spots. We connect finance, people, projects and assets so nothing slips between the cracks.

Clarity over complexity

Power shouldn't mean complicated. If a busy owner can't run it without a manual, we haven't finished the job.

Trust is non-negotiable

Your business data is sacred. Bank-grade security, POPIA compliance and reliability you never have to think about.

We move with our customers

Real local support from people who understand SME life on the ground. Your wins are the roadmap.

Our journey

From a Cape Town tool to a mission for Africa

2019
Born at Afrigenius

Built in Cape Town to run our own projects, finances and invoices when off-the-shelf tools did not fit.

Then
People too

We added Human Capital Management as our team became our most valuable asset.

The turning point
Bigger than us

Businesses we worked with saw their own struggles in Gestion — and asked for it.

2026
Open to all

Gestion launches publicly as the operating system for African business, starting in South Africa.

Proudly South African

Built in South Africa, for South African business

Built in Cape Town for the realities of doing business here — rands, VAT, POPIA and SARS handled the way you need them. We're proudly local, and we build for how South African businesses actually work.

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Johannesburg Cape Town Durban Pretoria Gqeberha Bloemfontein East London Polokwane
The people behind Gestion

Operators and builders who've lived the problem

We're a team of engineers, designers and business people — most of us African, all of us obsessed with helping local enterprises win.

TM
Thandiwe Mokoena
Chief Executive
SN
Sibusiso Ndlovu
Chief Technology
AB
Aisha Bello
Head of Product
JM
Johan van der Merwe
Head of Customer
We're growing our team

If you want to build software that helps real businesses grow, we'd love to meet you.

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Run your business with confidence. Become bankable.

Join the South African businesses growing with Gestion. Start your 30-day free trial today — no card required.