Best Real Estate and Construction Tech Companies in South Africa
The 125 best Real Estate and Construction Tech companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Flow Living.
South Africa's Real Estate and Construction Tech sector is more active than its headline numbers suggest, and this directory ranks 125 companies operating across it by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed funding sits at $11M, which is modest, but the distribution tells the real story.
Flow Living leads at $6M, followed by HouseME at $3M and DigsConnect at $830,000. Those three alone account for the bulk of the capital, meaning most of the remaining field is early-stage and investor-hungry. I'd watch that gap closely. Globally, the construction and real estate tech market was valued at roughly $5383.7B in 2021, with a forecast CAGR of around 5.7% per ResearchAndMarkets.com, driven by infrastructure investment, rising housing starts, and population growth pressing hard on urban supply. So what does that mean for South Africa? Median install growth of roughly +18% year-on-year across real estate and construction apps signals that consumer-side adoption is moving even if venture dollars haven't caught up yet. Investors like Endeavor and MassChallenge are already in the mix, and if you're building here, the competitive window is still open.
Our analysis of 292 Real Estate and Construction Tech companies
$38.8b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Real Estate and Construction Tech companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flow Living Provider of a platform for commerce media and audience monetization | $6M | 41 mo ago | Seed | — | 2007 | Google MapsMUIstyled-components+19 | 2 launchs |
| 2 | HouseME Property management solution for rental properties | $3M | 69 mo ago | Deadpooled | Benjamin Shaw Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | BootstrapPayPalCaddy+7 | — |
| 3 | DigsConnect Online platform to find & book student accommodations | $830K | 37 mo ago | Series A | Greg Keal Co-Founder & Marketing Director | 2017 | SentryFirebasestyled-components+20 | — |
| 4 | Travail Co-working work space in South Africa. | $250K | 148 mo ago | Deadpooled | Cornelius Joubert CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 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 | LetMeIn SaaS-driven visitor management software for offices and apartments | $143K | 66 mo ago | Seed | Jarrad Van Zuydam Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — |
| 7 | Daily Homes Listing platform for affordable housing. | $135K | — | Deadpooled | Danny Nochumsohn Founder & CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 8 | Ekaya Rent residential property directly from owners | $130K | 132 mo ago | Deadpooled | Justin Melville CEO | 2014 | — | — |
Top 12 Real Estate and Construction Tech companies in South Africa
#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
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2007 · 24 employees$6Mraised▾
Provider of a platform for commerce media and audience monetization. The platform enables advertisers to access audiences and allows data owners to generate revenue. It offers tools for building audiences and matching them with advertiser demand. The platform includes a marketplace for audience segments and provides insights and analytics. It is designed to be compliant with data privacy regulations.
- Jan 2023Seed$4.5M
- Jan 2019Seed$1.5M
#3
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2017 · 12 employees$830Kraised▾
Online platform to find & book student accommodations. It offers an online property portal that enables students to find & book accommodations. Users can search for properties by city and filter the available options based on various criteria such as price & sharing. It also provides a platform to find roommates through the platform.
- May 2023Series A—
- Feb 2023Seed—
- Jul 2022Seed—
- Apr 2022Seed—
#4
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 21 employees$3Mraised▾
HouseME is an online platform to manage rental properties. The solution enables users to create property listings, advertise them on various portals, schedule bookings, screen tenants, digitally sign leases, collect & manage rental payments, and more. Tenants can use the portal to find properties, submit offers, make the payment, and more. The company has partnered with Watson Ferguson, Sage Pay, and getToD, among others. The company earns revenue by charging a monthly fixed fee for the services offered.
- Sep 2020Seed—
- Nov 2019Seed—
- Dec 2018Seed—
- Jun 2018Seed—
#5
Seed · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2020 · 3 employees$143.4Kraised▾
SaaS-driven visitor management software for offices and apartments. It facilitates an API based interface that can be used in any chat app. It also offers a chatbot-based pre-screening risk management dashboard.
- Dec 2020Seed$143.4K
#6
Deadpooled · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2014$250Kraised▾
Travail is a platform that provides users an interface to book managed co-working space in South Africa. It aims to provide standardized offices to start-ups, entrepreneurs & free lancers. Some of the standardized offerings are Hot desks, Height adjustable desks, Private or open lounges, Meeting rooms, Boardrooms, Café seating, Free Hi-speed wi-fii, Italian coffee. It provides an community like environment to its members. It offers monthly membership to access its properties.
- Feb 2014Seed$250K
#7
Deadpooled · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2014$130Kraised▾
Ekaya is a South Africa based website, which offers a platform for Listing rental residential spaces directly by landlords/ owners. It has an algorithm which scans through the web to filter if there has been any listing by any agent/ broker. It even provides complimentary services like checking the credit score of the renter.
- Jun 2015Angel—
- Sep 2014Angel$130K
- 2014Seed—
#8
Deadpooled · Sandton, Gauteng · founded 2012$135.3Kraised▾
Dailyhomes.co.za is a listing portal focused on buying and selling of affordable housing and student accommodation in South Africa. Homes for sale under R1 million and rentals below R6000 per month are the prime focus of the listed content. It makes money from real estate agents and developers who list on their property. The site is dead pooled as on April 2016.
- Seed$135.3K
#9
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
#10
Acquired · Durban, KwaZulu Natal · founded 1998—raised▾
Provider of an online listing platform for commercial and residential properties. It provides users with an online listing platform to buy, sell, rent and lease commercial and residential real estate properties. Users can search for properties and contact the respective landlords or agents through the platform. It also allows landlords and agents to list their ads on the platform.
#11
Funding Raised · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2020—raised▾
Online platform for booking pop-up stalls in markets, expos, and trade shows. It is an online platform that allows users to discover and book retail pop-up stalls in markets, expos, and trade shows. It provides a suitable way for vendors and venues to connect in order to facilitate pop-up retail spaces.
- May 2023Grant (prize money)—
#12
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2004 · 36 employees—raised▾
Provider of cloud-based software for automating rental payments. Provides a platform for the property management industry in real estate, aims to eliminate inefficiencies in back-office operations, lower administrative costs per transaction, and apply technology to automate the rent collection process.
- Dec 2022Seed—
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Funding & growth over time
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How research on Proptech & Construction Tech is moving in South Africa
A read on the academic research around Proptech & Construction Tech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 103 South Africa-affiliated papers.
- University of Johannesburg53
- University of Cape Town12
- Durban University of Technology9
- University of the Witwatersrand6
- Nelson Mandela University4
- Building information modeling5
- Originality2
- Knowledge management2
- Context (archaeology)1
- Systems engineering1
- Construction industry1→8
- Construction management1→6
- Project management2→5
- Process management1→5
- Procurement1→4
Where proptech construction is researched across South Africa
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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