FirePay, a South African payments startup, has acquired Radar, a South African human resources and payroll startup.

Firepay is the company behind SnapScan, a South African mobile payments and was founded by Kobus Ehlers and Gerrit Greeff in 2013. Firepay became a subsidiary of Standard Bank in 2016 after being acquired.

In 2019 the founders SnapScan established Radar in 2019 with Richard Oakley. They will now exit Radar and the rest of the team will join Firepay.

Commenting, Ehlers said Firepay was one of the original investors in Radar. Both companies, he said, work on solving problems that small- to midsize enterprise (SME) customers deal with.

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