Best Media & Entertainment Companies in Cape Town, South Africa
The 73 best Media & Entertainment companies in Cape Town, South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Billionaire Plus.
Ranked: Best Media & Entertainment companies in Cape Town
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Billionaire Plus Provider of NFT-based multilayer board game | $2M | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 2 | Zindi Operator of a network providing data science challenges and resources | $2M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Megan Yates Co-Founder | 2018 | SentryYouTubeReact+21 | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Personera B2B photo printing white label platform | $2M | 184 mo ago | Acquired | Sheraan Amod Founder & CEO | 2009 | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+12 | — |
| 4 | Indaba Mobile Social community enabler for businesses | $2M | 152 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ken Venn Founder and CTO | 2009 | — | — |
| 5 | Iono Online podcast aggregation and hosting platform | $489K | 102 mo ago | Seed | — | 2008 | SentryTypeScriptWistia+13 | — |
| 6 | Found Online social network for offline shopping | $50K | 166 mo ago | Deadpooled | Faheem Kajee Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 7 | SampleBoard Concept creation online | $25K | 176 mo ago | Seed | — | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+39 | — |
| 8 | NicheStreem Developer of an on-demand music streaming platforms | — | 111 mo ago | Series A | Catherine Luckhoff Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
Top 12 Media & Entertainment companies in Cape Town
#1
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2018 · 1 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Operator of a network providing data science challenges and resources. It offers opportunities to learn data skills and connect with AI builders. The network facilitates participation in real-world data challenges, both individually and in teams. Participants can earn certificates, develop skills, and explore job opportunities.
- Dec 2021Seed$1M
- Oct 2021Seed$950K
#2
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
#3
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2008 · 12 employees$488.8Kraised▾
Online podcast aggregation and hosting platform. Also allows an individual to publish their podcast and offer streaming options for users. Monetizes these podcasts by native ad-insertion in the content. Offer monthly based subscription packages based on the type of user.
- Dec 2017Seed$313.6K
- Nov 2016Angel$175.2K
#4
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2009$1.5Mraised▾
Indaba Mobile is a mobile-focused social media company.It can help users connect with customers, build a community and communicate with them at a fraction of traditional marketing spend, while providing clear benefits to your customers in the form of free instant messaging and much more. It is backed by capital eye ventures. It extends mobile social communities to organisations wishing to build, understand and communicate with their target audience; be it a retailer, financial services company, a football club, or a market research company.
- Oct 2013Seed$1.5M
#5
Acquired · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2009 · 9 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Personera is a B2B photo printing white label platform which enables it's clients to provide custom print and digital products like photobooks, calendars, cards, posters,etc to their brand fan communities. Personera works by implementing on brand sites or Facebook fan community pages from where users can directly order. Personera handles order payments, printing and delivery services and monetizes through 25% cut per-sales revenue share basis. Users can order physical personalized calendars for $19.95. Got acquired by Impression works in 2014.
- Feb 2011Seed$1.4M
#6
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2012$50Kraised▾
Found (formerly Pashash) was an online social network for offline shopping. The app that lets user share real-world products pictures on Facebook and Twitter. It enabled the user to start a trend on social media about the deal and help people find the deal. It won the best startup award in 'Startup World' in November 2012.
- Aug 2012Seed$50K
#7
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2009 · 3 employees$25Kraised▾
Sample board is an online, digital mood board editor for the creative industries. Sample board provides a platform where people from around the world create and share mood boards, discuss the design and get inspired by each other.It provides free 14-day trial initially and then charges $79/month for businesses, $49 for Pro version, $24 for basic version.
- Oct 2011Seed$25K
#8
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014—raised▾
NicheStreem is a developer of an on-demand music streaming platforms. The company plans to operate music streaming solutions in emerging markets and their offering in Africa is Liedjie. As of Apr'17, the company has 40K music tracks, 1K curated playlists, and 11K registered users. In Mar'17, Media24 acquired 10% equity in the company.
- Mar 2017Series A—
#9
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2013—raised▾
Bozza is an online music streaming and store platform for African music. It provides African music streaming platform for users. It is a content sharing and digital distribution platform that allows indie artists to upload their works including music, videos, poetry, etc. and share them on social media platforms. Fans can discover local content, like, and share on social platforms.
- May 2015Seed—
#10
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015—raised▾
Crew Pencil is an online crew booking and diary system for the entertainment industry. Offers a tool for crew members and technicians to create and manage their profile, equipment lists, showreels, manage bookings and explore job options. Production users can access online job booking sheets, the pencil system, message and share files with the crew. Also, offers an online notification system that allows crew and production companies to communicate with each other and manage bookings.
- Mar 2015Angel—
#11
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2010—raised▾
Bet.co.za is an online and mobile sports betting platform. It allows users to take part in online betting on various sports such as tennis, basketball, soccer, etc. It also provides sports news, match previews, post-match analysis to players.
- Dec 2014Seed—
#12
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2012—raised▾
Wabona is an online subscription video streaming service showcasing African film and television shows. Their content is made up of African and International film which is sourced, curated and delivered primarily to markets in the African Diaspora as well as Pan Africa. Wabona is a division of Afrikan Dust Media Group (ADMG) and was launched in November 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa.
- 2013Seed—
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