Radar · Building Materials in South Africa
Best Building Materials Companies in South Africa
The 38 best Building Materials companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
38companies tracked
$0disclosed funding
0unicorns
—have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · BUILDING MATERIALS × SOUTH AFRICA
Our analysis of 150 Building Materials companies
$19.1b in tracked funding; 75% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2020.
150companies analysed
75%cloud-native stacks
2020funding peak (by rounds)
4unicorns
2001median founding year
Ranked: Best Building Materials companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cashbuild Offline retailer of construction & building materials | — | Public | 6,170 | 1986 | Werner de Jager CEO | PrestaShopCart FunctionalityMySQL+23 | — |
| 2 | Italtile Online retailer chain of homeware products | — | Public | 3,268 | 1969 | — | BootstrapMicrosoft AdvertisingGoogle Font API+6 | — |
| 3 | afrimat Afrimat is a black empowered open pit mining company. | — | Public | 2,668 | 1963 | Andries Heerden CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 1 launch · 1 expansion |
| 4 | PPC Producer & supplier of aggregates and cement products | — | Funding Raised | 2,579 | 1892 | — | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETBootstrap+18 | — |
| 5 | afrisam AfriSam is a supplier of superior quality construction materials and technical solutions. | — | Private | 1,201 | 2006 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 6 | ceramic industries ltd Ceramic Industries is a manufacturer of ceramic tiles and sanitary-wares in both the wholesale and retail… | — | Acquired | 1,001 | 1976 | — | WebflowGSAPLinkedin Insight Tag+14 | — |
| 7 | Veereniging Refractories Manufacturer of refractory bricks. The company engages in the manufacturing and supply of bricks blocks and… | — | Acquired | 848 | 1881 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Plumblink Provider of plumbing and sanitary & kitchenware products | — | Acquired | 545 | 1911 | Seaweed Mcfarlane CEO | Cart FunctionalityTypeScriptZone.js+12 | — |
Top 2 Building Materials companies in South Africa
#1
Public · Bryanston, Gauteng · founded 1969 · 3268 employees—raised▾
Public · Bryanston, Gauteng · founded 1969 · 3268 employees
Online retailer chain of homeware products. Users can order products by providing location, user details, preferred products, payment details, and more.
Investors
Aka Capital, Peotona Group Holdings
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareCookiebotFont AwesomeGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#2
Public · Bellville, Western Cape · founded 1963—raised▾
Public · Bellville, Western Cape · founded 1963
Provider of industrial minerals and construction materials
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 216k LinkedIn followers — 16.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Founders & team
Investors
ARC Investments
Funding & investor landscape
$0total disclosed funding
0companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · South Africa · country-scoped Prism corpus, 32,958 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Building Materials coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · South Africa
How research on Advanced Materials is moving in South Africa
A read on the academic research around Advanced Materials — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 19 South Africa-affiliated papers.
top research entities
- University of Johannesburg6
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology3
- Department of Science and Technology3
- University of South Africa3
- University of the Witwatersrand2
leading researchers
Kazeem O. Sanusi · Suprakas Sinha Ray · Oscar Philander · Graeme Oliver · Taskeen Sarwan · Pradeep Kumar · Yahya E. Choonara · Viness Pillay
▲
Breakthroughs3 · 16%
0%→0% share
5 median citations67% since 2021mostly empirical
Breakthroughs are cooling (0%→0% of field), led by Trichosanthes.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Trichosanthes1
- Smart material1
- Nanotechnology1
- Electrochromism1
- Viologen1
Landmark Therapeutic Phytoelemental Profile Of Trichosanthes Dioica · 13 cites
◆
Advancements6 · 32%
0%→0% share
7 median citations50% since 2021mostly reviews
Advancements are cooling (0%→0% of field), led by Smart material.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Smart material3
- Shape-memory alloy2
- Nickel titanium1
- Composite number1
- Aerospace1
Landmark concise review of the applications of NiTi shape-memory alloys in composite materials · 32 cites
▼
Concerns2 · 11%
0%→0% share
5 median citations100% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are cooling (0%→0% of field), led by Wearable computer.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Wearable computer1
- Transformative learning1
- Wearable technology1
- Piezoelectricity1
- Function (biology)1
Landmark Next‐Generation Piezoelectric Materials in Wearable and Implantable Devices for Continuous Physiological Monitoring · 10 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · South Africa
Where advanced materials is researched across South Africa
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Johannesburg8 · +0.34
Pretoria7 · +0.13
Common questions
How many Building Materials companies are there in South Africa?
Radar tracks 38 indexable Building Materials companies headquartered in South Africa that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Building Materials companies in South Africa?
The Building Materials companies in South Africa on this list have raised a combined $0 in disclosed equity funding across 0 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Building Materials company in South Africa?
Funding figures are not yet disclosed for Building Materials companies in South Africa.
How many Building Materials companies in South Africa are funded?
0 of the 38 Building Materials companies in South Africa on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Building Materials unicorns are there in South Africa?
None of the Building Materials companies in South Africa on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in South Africa Building Materials companies?
The most active investors in South Africa Building Materials companies on this list include Peotona Group Holdings, ARC Investments, Aka Capital, Camprow Capital, Ethos Private Equity.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.