Best Transportation and Logistics Companies in South Africa
The 113 best Transportation and Logistics companies in South Africa in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Fastjet.
South Africa's Transportation and Logistics sector has enough capital concentration to tell a real story: 113 companies tracked, $381M in total disclosed funding, and two names doing the heavy lifting. Fastjet pulled in $181M, ExecuJet follows at $132M, and together they account for the overwhelming majority of the funding pool before you even reach Planet42's $39M. That's a top-heavy market, and it shapes everything about how you read the competitive picture here.
So what's actually moving? App-side momentum is one signal I keep coming back to: median install growth across 691 logistics and transportation apps is running at roughly +20% year-on-year, which tells you consumer-facing demand is real even if coverage headlines aren't. The dominant media themes right now are truck accidents, bus crashes and traffic disasters, which, as 2019 research on transport sector dynamics makes clear, tend to accelerate regulatory pressure rather than dampen investment. Standard Bank and the African Development Bank Group are among the most active investors in the space, suggesting institutional capital hasn't lost its appetite. But with zero unicorns across 113 companies, the breakout moment is still somewhere ahead.
Our analysis of 200 Transportation and Logistics companies
$33.9b in tracked funding; 79% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Transportation and Logistics companies in South Africa
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Market signals (1y) | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fastjet Operator of passenger airlines | $181M | 98 mo ago | Public | — | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 2 | ExecuJet Offers jet charters and aviation services | $132M | 133 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1991 | WordPress Block EditorSiteOrigin Page BuilderWordPress+20 | 5 signals Announcements · Acquisition | — |
| 3 | Planet42 Provider of rent-to-buy vehicle rental services | $39M | 27 mo ago | Series A | Marten Orgna CFO & Co-Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 4 | Stor-Age Provides on-demand warehousing services and operates self-storage stores | $28M | 92 mo ago | Public | Gavin Lucas Co-Founder & CEO | 2006 | TypeScriptGraphQLNode.js+24 | — | 2 expansions |
| 5 | Flyairlink Operator of regional airlines | — | 22 mo ago | Funding Raised | Howard Levy CEO | 1992 | DrupalPHPMapbox.js+28 | — | — |
| 6 | Transnet Logistics and transportation service provider in South Africa | — | 23 mo ago | Funding Raised | Siyabonga Gama CEO | 1850 | MobiriseWindows ServerGoogle Maps+15 | 3 signals ▼40% Contracts | — |
| 7 | Boost Mechanics Provider of truck transportation services | — | 45 mo ago | Seed | Ipeleng Mathebula Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Grindrod Provider of freight forwarding and logistics services | — | 104 mo ago | Public | Andrew Waller CEO | 1910 | PHPChart.jsLaravel+21 | — | — |
Top 8 Transportation and Logistics companies in South Africa
#1
Series A · Pretoria, Gauteng · founded 2017 · 250 employees$39.5Mraised▾
Provider of rent-to-buy vehicle rental services
- Mar 2024Conventional Debt—
- Mar 2024Series A$16M
- Feb 2023Series A$15M
- Feb 2023Conventional Debt$85M
#2
Public · Germiston, Gauteng · founded 2006 · 176 employees$181Mraised▾
Operator of passenger airlines
- Apr 2018Conventional Debt$12M
- Jan 2017Post IPO$48M
- Jul 2016Post IPO$19.7M
- Apr 2015Post IPO$75M
#3
Acquired · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 1991 · 1000 employees$132Mraised▾
Offers jet charters and aviation services
#4
Public · Cape Town, Western Cape · founded 2006 · 480 employees$28Mraised▾
Provides on-demand warehousing services and operates self-storage stores. The company offers a platform for users to search and book household, student, and business storage services. It also allows users to estimate the size required for storage purposes.
- Sep 2018Post IPO$28M
#5
Funding Raised · Edenvale, Gauteng · founded 1992—raised▾
Operator of regional airlines
#6
Funding Raised · Johannesburg, Gauteng · founded 1850—raised▾
Transnet is a provider of logistics and transportation services in South Africa. The company owns & operated several seaports, pipelines, railways, and more. Additionally, the company also offers freight forwarding and is also involved in the manufacture of rolling stock (locomotives).
#7
Seed · Tshwane, Gauteng · founded 2014—raised▾
Provider of truck transportation services
- Sep 2022Seed—
#8
Public · Durban, KwaZulu Natal · founded 1910 · 3787 employees—raised▾
Provider of freight forwarding and logistics services
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Transportation and Logistics coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.