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ABOUT

The company behind the app.

80eight is a licensed South African financial services provider. It moves rands and crypto for people and for businesses through one app and one entity. This page carries what we can evidence, and says plainly what we cannot.

THE ENTITY

Who you are actually dealing with.

Registered company

© 80 Eight SA (Pty) Ltd · Reg. no. 2017/435463/07 · FSCA FSP 49010 (ZA)

One entity sits behind every surface on this site and behind the app. Nothing here is operated by a separate brand.

ZA

FSCA

FSP · 49010

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WHAT WE RUN

The surfaces we are accountable for.

THE PEOPLE

Who runs it.

Faadil MotiCo-founder & CEOLinkedIn
Zaydan MotiCo-founder & Creative DirectorLinkedIn
Yusuf MotiChairmanLinkedIn
Yusuf DarsotChief Audit OfficerLinkedIn
Nicole LokadasenChief Compliance OfficerLinkedIn
Dinoshen NaiduChief Operating OfficerLinkedIn
Chaz DunnChief Product OfficerLinkedIn
Spencer KitsonChief Technology OfficerLinkedIn
Muhammed LatifGroup CFOLinkedIn
Theo MpofuHead of OTC and FX SalesLinkedIn
Shouneez DomingoTreasury OfficerLinkedIn
Ammaarah PatelAccount ManagerLinkedIn
Nafeesa DangorGroup SecretaryLinkedIn
Arpita MakanDesignerLinkedIn
Berke KiranLead EngineerLinkedIn
Tinashe MasondoFullstack EngineerLinkedIn

Names, titles and photographs come from the company profile in the content API. No biographies are published yet.

THE NUMBERS

What the company reports about itself.

Unverified · confirm or clear before launch
R500MMonthly transaction volume
1000+Personal clients
R30MFX exchange saved
10Years in forex & crypto
300Corporate clients

These figures are entered in the content API and are not audited or evidenced anywhere on this site.

WHERE WE ARE

A street address and a person to ask for.

Office

97 Central Street
Houghton Estate, Johannesburg

ContactPhone, email and WhatsAppLegal and policiesTerms, privacy and complaints
Awaiting copy

The company story is not written yet.

Everything above is traceable to the registered entity, the licence register or the content API. A founding narrative, headcount, funding and biographies are not, so they are listed here as outstanding rather than written from imagination.

  • Founding date and a short history, signed off by the exec
  • Ownership and shareholding, if it is to be public
  • Headcount, and whether it is disclosed at all
  • Funding rounds and investors, if any are to be named
  • Board and governance structure
  • Any office beyond the Johannesburg address in the content API
  • Short biographies for the people already listed above

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