Best High Tech Companies in Cape Town, South Africa
The 79 best High Tech companies in Cape Town, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Jambo.
Our analysis of 1,127 High Tech companies
$222.2b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Cape Town
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jambo Platform building web3 mobile infrastructure solutions | $38M | 49 mo ago | Series A | James Zhang Co-Founder & CEO | 2022 | Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+14 | — |
| 2 | 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 | — |
| 3 | iiDENTIFii Provider of biometric identity verification and authentication solutions for businesses | $15M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Gur Geva Founder & CEO | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — |
| 4 | Billionaire Plus Provider of NFT-based multilayer board game | $2M | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 5 | Plentify Provider of SaaS-driven and AI grid optimisers for building management | $150K | 7 mo ago | Series A | Kailas Nair Co-Founder | 2008 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+36 | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Lumkani Fire detection and warning system | $132K | 96 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — |
| 7 | Perk Customer engagement and analytics | $80K | 154 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jess Green Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Waterpod Provider of water purified drinking services | $52K | — | Funding Raised | Kate T Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Cape Town
#1
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2008 · 42 employees$150Kraised▾
Provider of SaaS-driven and AI grid optimizers for building management. Its device can be attached to home water heaters that use AI to match users' energy needs in the grid. The platform provides solutions for industries that include property companies and body corporates, solar and battery companies, utilities and municipalities, and more.
- Nov 2025Series A—
- Jul 2024Series A—
- Oct 2023Series A—
- May 2023Grant (prize money)—
#2
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2022$37.5Mraised▾
Platform building web3 mobile infrastructure solutions. It is building a super app that combines education, gaming, and entertainment with earning opportunities.
- May 2022Series A$30M
- Feb 2022Seed$7.5M
#3
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2019 · 25 employees$15Mraised▾
Provider of biometric identity verification and authentication solutions for businesses. The company offers identity document barcode capture, data extraction, and verification. It provides facial recognition and liveness detection that authenticates identity documents through triangulation. The company’s platform integrates into existing infrastructures, including mobile and web-based platforms.
- Sep 2022Series A$15M
#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
Funding Raised · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2021 · 5 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of NFT-based multilayer board game. Billionaire Plus is a board game that combines NFT, Defi, collectibles with 3D and VR modes where players can own, sell, trade, and collect NFT assets. The game will be available on Mobile and PC platforms.
- Dec 2021ICO$2.1M
#6
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014 · 54 employees$131.6Kraised▾
Lukmani has developed networked device to enable pre detect events of fire and act as a early warning system. Device detects rapid change in temperature to detect events of fire and limit occurrence of false alarms. Devices can also be mesh networked within 60 meters thus all raise alarm together sending SMS and GPS locations to local fire department and community leaders. Company claims to have installed its device in over 7000 households in total. Company has won Chivas Regal's the venture competition with a prize money of $50K.
- Jun 2018Seed—
- 2015Grant (prize money)$50K
- Grant (prize money)$81.6K
#7
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2012$80Kraised▾
Perk provides iBeacons, CMS and SDK for retail customer engagement and analytics. Its system can be integrated into the businesses' app and can be used to push notifications and content as well show paths and analyse foot traffic for in-store marketing and retail analytics.
- Aug 2013Seed$80K
#8
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2018$40Kraised▾
AI-based bot platform for creating courses. It enables users to create courses, track progress, manage students, manage access, and accept payments. Its features include gamified learning, spaced repetition, and more.
- Nov 2018Seed$40K
#9
Funding Raised · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 4 employees$52.2Kraised▾
I-Drop Water provides safe and affordable drinking water refills through their Waterpod system, which purifies water at grocery stores in South African regions. The Waterpods offer low-cost, purified water refills to help reduce plastic waste and carbon emissions associated with bottled water.
- Grant (prize money)$52.2K
#10
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2010$36Kraised▾
Provider of open-source geocoding software for websites. Its offering includes geotagging software that enables developers to location-based photo galleries for websites and map development tools for your blogs, websites, and themes. It offers mapping tools such as a drag-and-drop interface, map makers, map managers, and Google map plugins.
- Feb 2013Seed$25K
- Nov 2012Seed$11K
#11
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2016 · 13 employees$13.6Kraised▾
Developer of IoT-enabled security system for residential applications. Its chief offering comprises a sensor that can be repositioned around the home and comes with a battery life of up to seven years. The company claims that the device comes with a seven-meter range and does not provide false alarms. It interfaces with a companion application that provides users with notification in case of an unusual activity for them to either call security services or to dismiss the same as a false alarm. The companion application is compatible with Android and iOS devices.
- Dec 2019Seed$13.6K
- Aug 2019Seed—
- 2018Seed—
#12
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2013$18.8Kraised▾
Solid Insight is a web-based application that promotes awareness of the energy use in buildings by integrating Solid Insight into building’s smart metering systems for electricity and water. It provides a live metering interface for display in building foyers and publically online, as well as bespoke building websites where applicable users guides and other desired information (such as developer details and notable building features) are accessible. It also offers an admin dashboard where users can link any SCADA metering systems installed in the building to the database and manage their live metering charts.
- Nov 2016Grant (prize money)$18.8K
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