Best Road Transport Tech Companies in South Africa
The 65 best Road Transport Tech companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: GoMetro.
Our analysis of 99 Road Transport Tech companies
$54.1b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Road Transport Tech companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GoMetro SaaS-based transit planning solutions for public transport operators | $12M | 30 mo ago | Series A | Justin PrEng Founder & CEO | 2011 | WordPressSentryMySQL+26 | — |
| 2 | Quickloc8 App-based taxi management solution | $48K | 96 mo ago | Seed | Mbavhalelo Mabogo CEO | 2015 | — | — |
| 3 | Wizzpass Parking solutions system and app | $20K | 122 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2015 | PHPLeafletCakePHP+17 | — |
| 4 | Pace Car Rental Online platform offering car rental services | — | 32 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 5 | LULA Online platform for shared office commutes | — | 96 mo ago | Seed | Xabiso Nodada Co-Founder & Head Of Product [Hipster] | 2015 | Node.jsLeafletGoogle Maps+16 | — |
| 6 | Lifti Online platform for P2P carpooling | — | 101 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tshepo Seeletso CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 7 | KaChing Parking Parking solution & payment management app | — | 115 mo ago | Acquired | Jaco Marais Founder & Managing Director | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | SnappCab Metered Cab Booking App | — | 156 mo ago | Deadpooled | Anton van Metzinger Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
Top 8 Road Transport Tech companies in South Africa
#1
Series A · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2011$12.4Mraised▾
SaaS-based transit planning solutions for public transport operators. The platform offers solutions like fleet management, journey planning, fleet optimization, data collection, and more. Features includes integrated with the existing system for optimum journey planning, dispatch management, digital twin enabled traffic interventions, and more. The company offers solutions for transit authorities, public transit agencies, and more.
- Nov 2023Series A$11.4M
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$52.2K
- May 2022Seed$1M
#2
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 24 employees$48Kraised▾
Quickloc8 is an app-based management solution for offline taxi operators. The solution offers functionalities such as real-time location tracking, driver behavior monitoring, trips overview, fleet management, driver management, real-time alerts (for incidents, overspeeding, etc), route planning, and navigation among others. Its mobile app is available for Android devices. Monetizes through monthly subscription fees.
- Jun 2018Seed$48K
#3
Acquired · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2015 · 10 employees$20Kraised▾
Wizzpass is the parking solutions access control system and app allowing entry and exit to shopping malls, airports, commercial property, office parks, residential property and gated communities via the app. Landlords and tenants can give access to visitors for certain days and times. The visitor automatically receives a notification email specifying the date and time that they will access the building through the app. WizzPass allows the user to see who parked, when they entered, when they left and how often they park. Can also track the total number of entries and exits for a certain time period, which allows to see when then parking has been full or under-utilised.
- Apr 2016Seed$20K
#4
Funding Raised · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2006 · 109 employees—raised▾
Online platform offering car rental services
#5
Seed · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2015 · 35 employees—raised▾
Lula is an online platform to book shared door-to-door shuttle services, primarily for corporate/office commuters. The company connects corporate travelers with private shuttle operators. Corporate commuters can sign up on the platform with their recurring schedules. If a certain minimum number of commuters sign-up for the proposed route, a scheduled route is launched. Users can further search, & purchase daily/weekly/monthly passes.
- 2018Seed—
#6
Deadpooled · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2017 · 3 employees—raised▾
Lifti provides an online platform for peer-to-peer intracity carpooling in South Africa. The app connects car owners willing to offer rides with passengers traveling along the similar way and enables users to search & book rides after providing relevant details. Claims that all users are verified and also offers women-only rides for female users.
- Jan 2018Seed—
#7
Acquired · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2014—raised▾
KaChing Parking is an app-based platform that helps users in parking. If the user arrives near a parking slot, the cameras attached to the slot's entrance scans the license plate of the vehicle for parking booms to open automatically. User can verify the duration and cost of parking in real-time. Parking payments can be done via the app. App is available for both iOS & Android platforms.
- Nov 2016PE—
#8
Deadpooled · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 2013—raised▾
Launched in Apr 2013, Snappcab partners with cab services and drivers to offer an online and mobile platform to book cabs in South Africa. Users can order a cab from any Blackberry, Windows, Android or iOS devices. They can discover, book and pay for cab in the app, track real-time cab progress and rate the driver at end of trip. Currently targeting Johannesberg, Cape Town and Durban markets. Raised initial funding from its founders, namely Daniel Voros, Eric Crawford, Robert Oswald, Anton van Metzinger, David Storey, Nathan Sasto.
- 2013Seed—
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How research on Autonomous Vehicles is moving in South Africa
A read on the academic research around Autonomous Vehicles — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 37 South Africa-affiliated papers.
- University of Johannesburg12
- North-West University6
- University of the Witwatersrand3
- University of KwaZulu-Natal2
- University of South Africa2
- Computer vision3
- Reinforcement learning2
- Intelligent transportation system2
- Real-time computing2
- Computer security2
- Object detection3
- Control theory (sociology)2
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution2
- Real-time computing2
- Object (grammar)2
- Humanities4
- Philosophy3
- Computer security3
- Stakeholder2
- Government (linguistics)2
Where autonomous vehicles 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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