Best Online Grocery Companies in South Africa
The 52 best Online Grocery companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Yebo Fresh.
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Ranked: Best Online Grocery companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yebo Fresh Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products | $4M | 41 mo ago | Seed | Jessica Boonstra Founder | 2018 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+8 | — |
| 2 | Nile Marketplace platform offering farm-produced food products | $2M | 13 mo ago | Series A | Rick Kleinhans Co-Founder | Chief Technology Officer | 2020 | SentryFirebaseEmotion+10 | 1 launch |
| 3 | Zulzi Online delivery service provider of grocery items, medicines, etc | $2M | 74 mo ago | Seed | Vutlharhi Valoyi Founder & CEO | 2013 | Node.jsLeafletMapbox.js+11 | 1 job opening |
| 4 | SnapNSave App-based platform offering cashback and offers on grocery shopping | $1M | 81 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2015 | — | — |
| 5 | Q-HOP Provider of self-checkout payment solutions for in-store retail businesses | $500K | 61 mo ago | Seed | Ajay Lalu Co-Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 6 | HelloChoice Online B2B marketplace offering fruits and vegetables | — | 58 mo ago | Seed | — | 2005 | TypeScriptZohoWindows Server+10 | — |
| 7 | Quench Platform offering on-demand grocery delivery | — | 64 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 8 | Food Supply Online marketplace to purchase food ingredients | — | 70 mo ago | Seed | — | 2010 | — | — |
Top 12 Online Grocery companies in South Africa
#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
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2018 · 64 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Online retailer offering multi-category grocery products. The product catalogs include fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, snacks, oil, grains, honey, and more. It also provides bakery products, dairy products, and more.
- Jan 2023Seed$4.5M
- Oct 2021Seed—
- Nov 2020Seed—
- Sep 2019Seed—
#3
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
#4
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 15 employees$1.5Mraised▾
App-based platform offering cashback and offers on grocery shopping. The customer has to book the items through the website or the app before buying them from the offline retail store and send the snap of receipt after purchase. The cashback can be redeemed both online and in-stores.
- Oct 2019Series A—
- Sep 2019Seed—
- Nov 2018Seed$488.1K
- Aug 2017Seed$1M
#5
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
#6
Seed · Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal · founded 2005 · 30 employees—raised▾
Online B2B marketplace offering fruits and vegetables It offers a platform connecting sellers and buyers of grocery products. The product catalog includes potatoes, dried beans, grains, meat, etc.
- Sep 2021Seed—
#7
Acqui-Hired · Stellenbosch, Western Cape · founded 2016 · 38 employees—raised▾
Platform offering on-demand grocery delivery. The platform offers alcohol delivery, grocery, and more. It also provides pharmacies & restaurant deliveries. Using the mobile application, customers can set the location to browse the offering in the nearby area. The company offers mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms.
- Mar 2021Seed—
#8
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2010—raised▾
Food Supply is an online marketplace to purchase food ingredients. It provides a marketplace platform for restaurants and food processors to procure food ingredients from suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers. Its product portfolio includes baking ingredients, beverages, dairy products, disposables, groceries, meat, seafood, frozen food, cleaning essentials, etc. It also provides real-time information on commodity prices, stock availability, delivery possibilities, and possible delivery times while placing orders with the suppliers.
- Sep 2020Seed—
#9
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—
#10
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—
#11
Acquired · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014 · 74 employees—raised▾
UCOOK is a meal kit delivery service that offers 9 new recipes every week. Claims to source local, organic ingredients and delivers to customers with easy-to-follow recipes from professional chefs. They offer three plans – Bachelor (for 1 person) at 89R per serving, Couple (For 2 people) at 73R per serving, and Family (for four people) at 51R per serving. The service as of Feb 2017 is available in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban, along with a handful of other places.
- Nov 2016Series A—
#12
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014 · 11 employees—raised▾
Port2Port is an online marketplace for wines. It provides a platform to connect retailers and producers with the customers who can select wines based on filters such as type, country of origin, brands, etc. The company ships the product to the customer's location by procuring the wines directly from the source. It also sells spirits on its platform.
- Oct 2015Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Online Grocery coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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