Best MarketingTech Companies in Cape Town, South Africa
The 43 best MarketingTech companies in Cape Town, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Springleap.
Ranked: Best MarketingTech companies in Cape Town
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springleap TaskRabbit for research | $1M | 137 mo ago | Seed | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 2 | Evly Platform offering social media marketing solutions | $1M | 180 mo ago | Deadpooled | Eric Edelstein Ex- Founder | 2010 | — | — |
| 3 | Graphflow Predictive analytics for WooCommerce | $225K | 151 mo ago | Seed | Robert Elliott Co-Founder & Data Scientist | 2013 | — | — |
| 4 | iSpani On demand sales force hiring platform | $170K | 80 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 5 | 8Bit Advertising and content optimization platform | $135K | 144 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tom Kennedy Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 6 | Perk Customer engagement and analytics | $80K | 156 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jess Green Founder | 2012 | — | — |
| 7 | Khoyn AI-based shopping assistant for Facebook Messenger | $18K | 108 mo ago | Seed | Tamiswanashe Chipika Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 8 | Yazi WhatsApp based market research platform for enterprises | — | 5 mo ago | Seed | Tim Treagus Founder | 2020 | TypeScriptFacebook LoginGoogle Maps+25 | — |
Top 8 MarketingTech companies in Cape Town
#1
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2012$1.1Mraised▾
Springleap defines itself as "TaskRabbit for research". The platform is an invite-only marketplace having about 180,000 marketing and advertising professionals. The brand strategists help the brands understand local trends and thereby help marketers understand new market and geography. It also gives the users tools to for actionable insight to improve their ads and social media marketing.
- Mar 2015Seed$650K
- Oct 2014Seed$400K
#2
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2010$1Mraised▾
Provider of social media marketing platform for agencies and brands. The company enables people to source services to anything by allowing users to build their own crowdsourcing websites and connecting to like-minded communities.
- Aug 2011Seed$1M
#3
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 7 employees$170.4Kraised▾
On demand marketplace for businesses to connect with the marketing and sales team. Enables businesses to initiate campaigns based on location and access on demand communities willing to participate in the sales and marketing process. Clientele includes Duracell, BattCo, Bertha Foundation, IBM, GreenCape, and others.
- Dec 2019Seed$170.4K
#4
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2013$225Kraised▾
Graph flow provides a predictive analytics platform for WooCommerce. It provides an extension which gives website and emails recommendations and advanced e-commerce analytics for web stores. Offers a "freemium" SaaS pricing model with basic analytics for free, whereas recommendations, email, premium insights are available for paid subscriptions. Variable pricing depending on the store size. For Enterprises, it offers direct API integration. In March, 2016 it had shut down its operations.
- Jan 2014Seed$225K
#5
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2012$135Kraised▾
8Bit is an advertising and content optimization platform which provides a suite of tools to online publishers that assists them in growing their online audiences across various networks. Platform places top content in front of website visitors for driving more engagement and offers a single dashboard to monitor content engagement across site and social networks. Users can also label content and block keywords as per their use case. It is an invite only content network for maintaining the quality of content and publishers. Clients include Forbes Africa, Web summit, Humanipo, etc.
- Aug 2014Seed$110K
- 2014Seed—
- Aug 2012Seed$25K
#6
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
#7
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2017 · 3 employees$17.7Kraised▾
Khoyn is an artificial intelligence-based digital shopping assistant for Facebook Messenger. It connects the user to multiple stores and brands thereby helping small and medium businesses to drive sales. The bot allows the user to type in what they want for searching over 1000 of brands to bring personalized results and recommendations. Additionally, it alerts the user when their favorite brands are on sale or on-trend. Some of the partner brands include Levis, Addidas, Forever New, U.S Polo, Zando, Nike etc. It has also partnered with DusuPay for mobile payments in messenger.
- Aug 2017Seed$17.7K
#8
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2020—raised▾
WhatsApp based market research platform for enterprises. It allows users to conduct surveys through WhatsApp. It provides access to insights by specifying the audience and sending survey questions. The platform offers targeted surveys that help businesses uncover new sources of growth by recruiting previously inaccessible customer segments through a network of participants.
- Mar 2026Seed—
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