Best Food and Agriculture Tech Companies in Gauteng, South Africa
The 61 best Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Gauteng, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: KHULA.
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 Gauteng
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | KHULA Provider of an online marketplace for agriculture and food businesses | $3M | 16 mo ago | Series A | Matthew Piper Founder | 2016 | WebflowUbuntuGSAP+15 | 1 partnership |
| 2 | 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 job opening · 1 launch |
| 3 | Zulzi Online delivery service provider of grocery items, medicines, etc | $2M | 73 mo ago | Seed | Vutlharhi Valoyi Founder & CEO | 2013 | Node.jsLeafletMapbox.js+11 | 1 job opening |
| 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 | Mapha Online platform offering food delivery services | $100K | 46 mo ago | Funding Raised | Tshidiso Vatsha Co-Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressMySQL+24 | — |
| 7 | Matrix Software Provider of ERP software solutions for meat and food processing industry | — | 60 mo ago | Seed | — | 2005 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 3 job openings |
| 8 | Selpal Provider of online marketplace to buy grocery products | — | 91 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Stephen Goldberg CEO | 2014 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+9 | — |
Top 9 Food and Agriculture Tech companies in Gauteng
#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
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
#4
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2013 · 108 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Zulzi is an online delivery service provider of grocery items, medicines, etc from local supermarkets.
- May 2020Seed$1.6M
#5
Funding Raised · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2017$100Kraised▾
Online platform offering food delivery services. The platform allows users to order food and grocery products from local stores. The platform also offers pickup services. The platform also offers products like beauty care, fashion, home care, etc.
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
#6
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
#7
Seed · Vereeniging, Gauteng · founded 2005 · 25 employees—raised▾
Provider of ERP software solutions for meat and food processing industry. Its solutions include stock management, traceability solutions, and more.
- Jun 2021Seed—
#8
Acqui-Hired · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2014 · 70 employees—raised▾
Provider of online marketplace to buy grocery products. It provides an online platform to buy grocery products and connect informal traders in townships to the formal economy. The company operates as a digital distribution platform, enabling dealers with a point-of-sale device.
- Nov 2018Series A—
- 2015Seed—
#9
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2013 · 7 employees—raised▾
JustNow is a mobile app to find offers and deals on excess or near-to expiry products. Users can browse the offers and offers and deals available near them. Users can apply filters such as distance, product type, price range and expiry date to filter the results. The app shows the offers in an ascending order, depending on the promotion expiration date. Users can claim the offers on the app and share it with friends and family members. To avail the offers user need to present the barcode of the offer at the selected store. Lists the delas from retailers, food stores, convenience stores, cafes, bakeries, fresh food markets, grocery stores. Claims that users can avail discount ranging from 30% to 50% on the products listed. The service is available in select stores in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 2017Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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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
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