Best In Store Retail Tech Companies in South Africa
The 49 best In Store Retail Tech companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Faro.
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Ranked: Best In Store Retail Tech companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faro Company purchases, reconditions, and resells unsold inventory from fashion brands | $6M | 18 mo ago | Series A | David Torr Co-Founder & CEO | 2023 | WebflowjQueryHSTS+8 | 2 partnerships · 1 expansion |
| 2 | TallOrder Cloud-based platform offering POS solution for offline retailers | $5M | 54 mo ago | Series A | — | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | 1 launch |
| 3 | Locstat Platform providing real-time analytical solutions | $2M | 9 mo ago | Seed | Sanjay Daya Co-Founder | 2016 | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | Q-HOP Provider of self-checkout payment solutions for in-store retail businesses | $500K | 61 mo ago | Seed | Ajay Lalu Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 5 | Perk Customer engagement and analytics | $80K | 155 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jess Green Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Ankerdata PoS solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2008 | — | — |
| 7 | arch retail systems Arch Retail Systems offers an integrated retail management solution for the Edge in retail. | — | — | Private | — | 1997 | — | 4 job openings |
| 8 | Argility Omni-channel enabler | — | — | Acquired | — | 2007 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+15 | 3 expansions |
Top 6 In Store Retail Tech companies in South Africa
#1
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2016 · 13 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Platform providing real-time analytical solutions. It provides a real-time analytical inference platform that is claimed to fuse and stream data from multiple sources to identify critical events and patterns impacting business operations. Provides transaction monitoring, fraud detection, preventative maintenance, traffic monitoring and geofencing, event processing for IoT solutions, geospatial data processing, and other solutions. Has use cases in financial services, retail and logistics, mining, maritime, and other sectors. The app is available on both Android and iOS platforms.
- Oct 2025Seed$2.3M
- Feb 2023Seed—
#2
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2023$6Mraised▾
Company purchases, reconditions, and resells unsold inventory from fashion brands. It partners with fashion brands to offload obsolete inventory through stores in non-core markets, ensuring traceability. The company purchases, collects, and reconditions unsold inventory and restores defective inventory for resale. It leverages technology and a specialized supply chain and utilizes an operating system that matches customers to garments and automates manual workflows. The company also uses AI and predictive analytics to optimize supply chain efficiency and automate workflows.
- Jan 2025Series A$6M
#3
Series A · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2010 · 32 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Cloud-based platform offering POS solution for offline retailers. Its features include order and inventory management, accounting, CRM, marketing tools, reporting and analytics, and more. Its other product is an online ordering app that can be integrated with retailers existing POS systems. It caters to both the retail and hospitality industries.
- Jan 2022Series A$3.1M
#4
Seed · Rosebank, Province Of Eastern Cape · founded 2020$500Kraised▾
Provider of self-checkout payment solutions for in-store retail businesses. It provides a contactless and personalized shopping experience through a digital platform where customers can use a mobile application to scan the bar-codes of items they wish to purchase, and then pay using different digital payment platforms. It provides a cashless contactless retail checkout system. It also uses AI to provide insights into consumer purchasing patterns.
- 2021Seed$500K
#5
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
#6
Acquired · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014 · 16 employees$6.8Mraised▾
Provider of payment processing solutions, including online and call center options. The business offers various methods for merchants to receive payments. These include options for online transactions and agent-assisted processing. The company facilitates payment acceptance through multiple channels.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of In Store Retail Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth rising
Common questions
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