Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Cape Town, South Africa
The 63 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Cape Town, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Aerobotics.
Our analysis of 414 Food and Agriculture Tech companies
$46.7b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Cape Town
| # | 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 | OrderIn Online food ordering platform | $25M | 53 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 3 | Inseco Insect protein company converting waste into sustainable ingredients for various industries | $5M | 50 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 4 | Yebo Fresh Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products | $4M | 40 mo ago | Seed | Jessica Boonstra Founder | 2018 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+8 | — |
| 5 | De Novo Foodlabs Provider of protein ingredients processing services | $4M | 22 mo ago | Seed | Leah Bessa Co-Founder & CSO | 2021 | — | 1 launch |
| 6 | SwiftVee Online auction platform for buying and selling livestock products | $2M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Russel Luck Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | RubyTrixRuby on Rails+16 | — |
| 7 | SnapNSave App-based platform offering cashback and offers on grocery shopping | $1M | 80 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | Agrista Provider of financial management solution for farms | $57K | 52 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2002 | — | — |
Top 12 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Cape Town
#1
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2016 · 19 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Online auction platform for buying and selling livestock products. It offers a mobile application where farmers can register and can make bids online or watch live online auction video streams. The category for bidding includes cattle, sheep, and goats.
- Nov 2025Series A$10M
- Nov 2020Series A$1.5M
#2
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2021 · 8 employees$4Mraised▾
Provider of protein ingredients processing services
- Aug 2024Seed$1.5M
- 2022Seed$2.5M
#3
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2013 · 94 employees$24.6Mraised▾
Online food ordering platform. It offers online food ordering platform that lets users, based on their location select a restaurant of their choice and place an order for delivery or pickup. Users can browse the menu of the listed restaurants. Once an order is placed it is relayed to the partner restaurant. The partner restaurant then delivers the food to the customer's address.
- Jan 2022Series A$4.7M
- 2020Series A$6.9M
- Seed$427K
- Seed$2.5M
#4
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
#5
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2018 · 64 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products. The product catalogs include fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, snacks, oil, grains, honey, and more. It also provides bakery products, dairy products, and more.
- Jan 2023Seed$4.5M
- Oct 2021Seed—
- Nov 2020Seed—
- Sep 2019Seed—
#6
Acquired · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2017 · 9 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Insect protein company converting waste into sustainable ingredients for various industries. It transforms low-value organic by-products into nutritious and sustainable insect-based products. These include proteins, lipids, fertilizer, and chitosan, catering to animal feed, pet food, crop production, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. The company utilizes state-of-the-art technology to meet the growing demand for sustainable, high-quality ingredients. This approach offers green solutions for businesses by diverting waste from landfills, generating new revenue streams, and improving carbon footprint. The company is a mission-driven business focused on supplying high-quality insect ingredients to local and international markets, promoting a circular economy and sustainable protein production.
- Apr 2022Seed$5.2M
#7
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 15 employees$1.5Mraised▾
App-based platform offering cashback and offers on grocery shopping. The customer has to book the items through the website or the app before buying them from the offline retail store and send the snap of receipt after purchase. The cashback can be redeemed both online and in-stores.
- Oct 2019Series A—
- Sep 2019Seed—
- Nov 2018Seed$488.1K
- Aug 2017Seed$1M
#8
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
#9
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—
#10
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2016—raised▾
Producer and supplier of hydroponic vegetables. The company uses its water-efficient growing technology where it uses 10% of the water required for conventional land-based agriculture. The products offered are iceberg lettuce, salad trios, cauliflower, and more.
- Dec 2020Seed—
#11
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2010—raised▾
Food Supply is an online marketplace to purchase food ingredients. It provides a marketplace platform for restaurants and food processors to procure food ingredients from suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers. Its product portfolio includes baking ingredients, beverages, dairy products, disposables, groceries, meat, seafood, frozen food, cleaning essentials, etc. It also provides real-time information on commodity prices, stock availability, delivery possibilities, and possible delivery times while placing orders with the suppliers.
- Sep 2020Seed—
#12
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2017—raised▾
NPO and social enterprise for supporting small-scale fisheries through technology. It works with small fishing communities to record catch data and improve livelihoods through sustainable fishing practices.
- Dec 2017Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food and Agriculture Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Food Technology is moving in South Africa
A read on the academic research around Food Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 524 South Africa-affiliated papers.
- University of Pretoria75
- University of Johannesburg58
- University of KwaZulu-Natal54
- North-West University43
- University of South Africa37
- Food security5
- Food safety4
- Food science2
- Food processing2
- Quality (philosophy)2
- Food processing1→23
- Food safety1→17
- Food systems1→10
- Population1→5
- Antimicrobial1→4
- Food safety7→69
- Food security14→73
- Agriculture8→52
- Food systems5→42
- Food processing3→31
Where food tech 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.