Best Crop Tech Companies in South Africa
The 81 best Crop Tech companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Aerobotics.
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Our analysis of 100 Crop Tech companies
$8.2b in tracked funding; 87% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Crop Tech companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aerobotics AI-powered yield forecasting for fruit growers, packers, and marketers | $27M | 66 mo ago | Series B | James Paterson Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | WebflowYouTubeAmazon Web Services+22 | — |
| 2 | KHULA Provider of an online marketplace for agriculture and food businesses | $3M | 15 mo ago | Series A | Matthew Piper Founder | 2016 | WebflowUbuntuGSAP+15 | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Nile Marketplace platform offering farm-produced food products | $2M | 12 mo ago | Series A | Rick Kleinhans Co-Founder | Chief Technology Officer | 2020 | SentryFirebaseEmotion+10 | 1 launch |
| 4 | Livestock Wealth Provider of a crowd-farming company for investing in cattle | $565K | 45 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — |
| 5 | HomeFarm Developer of IoT-powered hydroponic growing systems | $105K | 46 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Agrista Provider of financial management solution for farms | $57K | 52 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2002 | — | — |
| 7 | AgriCool Digital crowdfunding platform for agribusinesses | $35K | 45 mo ago | Seed | Zamokuhle Thwala Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 8 | Green Fingers Mobile Mobile-first SaaS platform for farmer data collection, credit scoring, and data analytics | $10K | 78 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in South Africa
#1
Series A · Centurion, Gauteng · founded 2020 · 10 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Marketplace platform offering farm-produced food products. The platform helps to connect fresh produce buyers and sellers by providing a platform for direct and secure transactions. The buyer places an order and transfers funds to a third-party escrow provider. Producers deliver directly to buyers or a centrally located hub for pick-up.
- Jun 2025Series A$10.6M
- May 2022Seed$2.5M
#2
Series A · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2016 · 30 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of an online marketplace for agriculture and food businesses. Its platform enables farmers to list their products for sale and consumers to place orders from preferred producers and suppliers. It also provides a platform for delivery service providers to register and deliver orders. It allows farmers to buy farm inputs and its mobile application is available for the Android platform.
- Mar 2025Series A$6.8M
- Nov 2023Seed—
- May 2023Seed—
- Aug 2021Seed$1.3M
#3
Series B · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014 · 81 employees$27.1Mraised▾
AI-powered yield forecasting for fruit growers, packers, and marketers. The company provides a platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence and smartphone imagery to deliver accurate fruit size, color, and quality measurements. This enables better yield forecasting, business planning, and sales decisions. The platform combines AI measurements with user inputs, offering solutions for various crop types. Key features include precise fruit sizing and forecasting, automated blemish measurements, and post-harvest quality classification. The company's suite of tools enhances farming methods, helping improve profitability by optimizing packouts. The platform supports data-driven decision-making throughout the fruit production and distribution chain. The company offers pricing details and demo requests on its website.
- Dec 2020Series B$17M
- May 2020Series B$5.5M
- Feb 2019Series A$2M
- Jul 2018Series A$2M
#4
Seed · Sandton, Gauteng · founded 2015 · 23 employees$564.6Kraised▾
Provider of a crowd-farming company for investing in cattle. It allows users to invest in cattle farms and earn from their investments.
- Sep 2022Seed$564.6K
- Sep 2019Conventional Debt$131.8K
#5
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2016 · 9 employees$104.8Kraised▾
Developer of IoT-powered hydroponic growing systems. Its soil-less pod uses a nutrient solution for supporting plant growth. The pod has its own watering and lighting system that requires external water and power supply. The pod can be used to grow a wide variety of herbs, micro-greens, and leafy vegetables whose seeds. Its companion app allows the user to track plant growth and look for recipes.
- Aug 2022Seed$104.8K
#6
Seed · Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal · founded 2018 · 6 employees$35Kraised▾
Digital crowdfunding platform for agribusinesses. It offers investors to finance small farmers. It also offers market linkage opportunities for farmers to sell farm produce to both vendors and retailers of the formal and informal markets.
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
- May 2021Seed$35K
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$87.9K
#7
Funding Raised · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2002 · 7 employees$57.1Kraised▾
Developer of CRM & e-commerce platform designed to assist farmers in presenting their business to financers and increase food production levels. The company's platform helps in providing financial planning, production records, SEO marketing, powerful API, and data security, enabling farmers to run online food supply chains that give consumers insight into the origin and quality of their food
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$57.1K
#8
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 1 employees$10Kraised▾
Green Fingers Mobile is a mobile-first Saas platform for agronomists and financial institutions to collect farmer's data in any region to measure indices such as credit scoring. The data collected is analyzed on the platform to develop a sales strategy for farm input suppliers and farm products' marketing companies according to farmers' operations in any area. The platform provides customized reports and visualization reports according to various use cases such as loans for smallholder farmers, farm input requirements in a region, yield forecasts for a specific crop in a specific region, etc. The platform also provides weather forecasts in the covered agroclimatic areas. The company claims that its solution is currently available for 3 African countries and manages data of around 5000 smallholder farmers who cultivate crops such as chili, soybean, sorghum, and maize.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$10K
- Apr 2018Seed—
- Mar 2017Seed—
#9
Seed · Tzaneen, Limpopo · founded 2015 · 25 employees—raised▾
Provider of agricultural ERP software for farmers and agribusinesses. Its cloud-based platform offer solutions related to human resource management, farm operation management, provides integrated payroll solutions, and stock and asset management.
- Apr 2023Seed—
#10
Funding Raised · Western Cape · founded 2020 · 2 employees—raised▾
Developers of autonomous robots for multiple agricultural applications
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)—
#11
Seed · Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal · founded 2005 · 30 employees—raised▾
Online B2B marketplace offering fruits and vegetables It offers a platform connecting sellers and buyers of grocery products. The product catalog includes potatoes, dried beans, grains, meat, etc.
- Sep 2021Seed—
#12
Seed · Western Cape · founded 2017 · 2 employees—raised▾
Provider of fertilizer management solutions
- Feb 2021Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in South Africa
A read on the academic research around Precision Agriculture — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 148 South Africa-affiliated papers.
- University of Johannesburg25
- University of Pretoria16
- University of KwaZulu-Natal15
- University of South Africa13
- University of the Western Cape13
- Crop5
- Irrigation5
- Cloud computing4
- Internet of Things4
- Software deployment3
- Food security1→8
- Remote sensing2→7
- Agricultural engineering2→6
- Yield (engineering)2→5
- Multispectral image2→5
- Sustainability7
- Sustainable agriculture6
- Food security5
- Agricultural engineering4
- Population4
Where precision agriculture 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.
Common questions
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.