Top 25 Machine Learning VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (November 2026)

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• wamly — Wamly is the recruitment software, It has given us time back to focus on transformational work.
• Cue — Cue is one customer service platform for live chat, chatbots and broadcasts across WhatsApp, Messenger, web chat, email and many other digital channels.
• Optique Optometrists — Optique Optometrists provides comprehensive eye care services, including eye tests, prescription glasses, and contact lenses. The company offers affordable eye care solutions and has multiple branches across South Africa. Customers can book appointments online and access a wide range of eyewear options. Optique Optometrists focuses on deliveringquality vision care and ensuring customer satisfaction through professional services and convenient booking options.

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• Fedgroup — Fedgroup offers financial solutions in South Africa & abroad, providing investments, asset-backed lending, group risk & fiduciary services
• AMEA Power — Founded in 2016, AMEA Power has assembled a leading team of global industry experts to deliver clean energy projects across Africa, the Middle East and other emerging markets.
• Minbos Resources — Minbos has to build a nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security. They provide nutrient supply and distribution business that stimulates agricultural production and promotes food security.

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• BFree — BFree focuses its collection processes on sustainably leading customers out of debt by giving them back control over their finances.
• FireID — FireID is a venture builder that helps makers, with unique skills and passion, build businesses to solve meaningful problems.
• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.

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• DataProphet — DataProphet offers production intelligence solutions for manufacturers. By combining human ingenuity with production data, we supercharge manufacturing excellence. Explore our Connect platform and expert services, trusted by industry leaders.

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• Accrual Software — We are a Software Development Company
• Cyrrix Cybersecurity — At Cyrrix Cybersecurity, we understand the importance of protecting your business from online threats. Our team provides a full range of cybersecurity services to help safeguard your company's sensitive information and systems. We offer comprehensive risk assessments, penetration testing, and incident response planning to identify and addressvulnerabilities in your network. Our managed security services provide ongoing monitoring and threat detection to keep your business protected around the clock. With our help, you can rest easy knowing that your company's valuable assets are secure.
• Aesthetic Prosthetic Bionics — Biological Engineering, Bionics, Biomimetics, Hydraulics, Prosthetics, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeleton Suits, Dynamics, Kinematics Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Artificial Organs, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, Knowledge Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Robotics, Artificial GeneralIntelligence, Deep Learning, Bayesian Networks, Evolutionary Algorithms, Computational Neuroscience, Neurocybernetics, Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Source Coding, Channel Coding, Algorithmic Complexity Theory, Algorithmic Information Theory, Information-Theoretic Security, Grey System Theory & Biotechnology

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• Botlhale AI — From call centre analytics to speech APIs, we help African businesses deliver smarter, more inclusive customer experiences
• Acumen Software — Acumen Software develops configurable SaaS solutions for enterprise work management, asset management, field service, smart city engagement and AIoT solutions.
• The Cape Town Stock Exchange — The Cape Town Stock Exchange is a south Africa’s stock exchange for small- and medium-sized businesses.

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• Kopano — Describe what you need. Spend less time scheduling. Find a time. Bring everyone together.

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• OlsAro — OlsAro produces salt-tolerant crops.
• Resurrect Bio — Resurrect Bio discovers crop disease-resistance traits, using AI and high-throughput in-planta screening to deliver them to seed companies up to 10x faster.
• IIF — A farm in your pocket.

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• TUNL — Ship globally with ease. TUNL offers affordable, transparent international shipping built for South African brands. Up to 91% cheaper. No surprises.
• Marquee Group — Marquee Group is a sports management focused on Golf and train athletes to achieve goals.
• Right Now Response — The future of repairs starts soon. Counting down to smarter tracking in 2025! There are perks to working 24/7, 365 days a year... Like launching the future of repairs ahead of schedule!

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• AI Lean — Ai Lean is the only complete end-to-end automation platform for self-storage collections, lien compliance, and delinquency recovery. From day one past due through the self-storage auction and a re-rented unit, we help operators recover more, cut delinquency, and stay compliant across every state. Fr
• Aikium Inc. — Protein therapeutics
• LOOKOUT — Enhance your boating safety with Lookout Camera, the ultimate AI marine vision system. Spot hazards, navigate with augmented reality, and gain situational awareness like never before.

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• Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance

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• BriteCo — Their cloud-based BriteCo Appraisal Management System is the gateway to making the jeweler’s life easier and more productive—-and customers happier and more secure with immediate insurance coverage of their fine jewelry and watches.
• Lemonade — Lemonade operates as a full-stack insurance company powered by AI and behavioral economics and driven by social good. It is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance. Lemonade replaces brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, delivering zero paperwork and instant everything. The company uses artificialintelligence and behavioral economics to set rates for the homes and renters it insures. Lemonade was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.
• Viridium Group — Viridium Group is the leading specialist in the efficient management of life insurance portfolios in Germany. The foundation of its activities is a customer-focused service organisation combined with efficient portfolio management. As of mid-2017, the companies of Viridium Group administered a combined total of about one million insurance policiesand about €15 billion in assets. The Group's shareholders are Cinven, a leading international private equity firm, and Hannover Re, the world's third-largest reinsurance company.

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• n8n — n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.
• Openvibe — Interact With Anyone On The Open Internet. All Decentralised Social Networks, Single Timeline.
• Liquid AI — Liquid AI is an MIT spin-off with a presence in Boston, MA, and Palo Alto, CA. Our mission is to build state-of-the-art, general-purpose AI systems from first principles and deploy capable, efficient, highly aligned, and trustworthy AI for all.

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• Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
• Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
• Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

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• Neogrowth — Best loan offer for your small business. Apply for Collateral Free Business Loan online & get instant loan disbursal. For more details call us at 18004195565.
• Marengo Asia Healthcare — Marengo Asia Healthcare is a platform that will run multispecialty hospital chains formed by Samara Capital, Havells Family Investment Office, and Godrej Family Investment Office.
• Global Care Medical Center — Global Care Medical Center is a network of hospitals and clinics that provides multi specialty inpatient and outpatient healthcare services.

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• JUMO — Enabling infrastructure for banking. We build enabling technology so that you can reach more customers, save money, achieve higher returns and greater scale.
• Previsico — Live, property-level surface water and flash flood forecasting. Previsico gives insurers, brokers and large organisations 48-hour advance flood warnings - specific enough to act on, proven to mitigate losses.
• QNB Finansleasing — QNB Finansleasing company provides domestic and international financial leasing.

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• STAY App — Discover how our Guest Experience Platform enhances hotel services, boosts revenue, and transforms stays with a seamless, branded app. Book a demo today.
• Carpool Logistics — Vehicle logistics with a documented chain of custody. 450,000+ vehicles delivered at 99.8% claim-free across a vetted 13,000+ carrier network.
• RealTime Reservation — RealTime Reservation offers technology solutions to help hotels and results generate additional revenue and enhance guest experiences.

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• Kuunda — Kuunda provides consulting, liquidity management, data insight tools enabling users to fulfill financial needs through a digital platform.
• Ivanhoe Mines — Mining with a greater purpose.
• PayInc — A purpose-driven payments provider in South Africa for over 50 years.

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• Jobox — Jobox places graduates into funded roles at small businesses across South Africa. Your existing social investment budget becomes a real person, in a real job.
• Droppa — Discover the courier & moving company that makes nationwide delivery easy. Droppa offers a wide range of delivery services & fleet solutions. Contact us today!
• 3DIMO — 3DIMO provides solutions to monitor the health and pattern of animal movements to detect abnormalities.

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• Kopano — Describe what you need. Spend less time scheduling. Find a time. Bring everyone together.

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• Plentify — Plentify connects home appliances with cheaper cleaner energy. It does this with an intelligent residential load management platform which matches demand with clean energy supply for 75% cheaper than batteries. Plentify combines advanced hardware, AI, and user-centric design to create smart home products that delight customers while alsostrengthening electricity systems.
• Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.
• Yebo Fresh — Yebofresh is a new online shopping service, delivering popular groceries straight into areas that are generally unserved by most formal retailers. Our unique business model and partnerships with manufacturers allow us to deliver top quality products and A-brands at extremely competitive prices. Yebofresh serves Imizamo Yethu, Langa, Khayelitsha,Mfuleni and Gugulethu and following recent seed funding, is rapidly expanding across the greater Cape Town area.

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• Kopano — Describe what you need. Spend less time scheduling. Find a time. Bring everyone together.

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• Kopano — Describe what you need. Spend less time scheduling. Find a time. Bring everyone together.
• Virtru — Virtru data encryption protects data, through email and file-sharing, Cloud, SaaS, CRM solutions and across internal and external ecosystems.
• ThayerMahan — ThayerMahan is the premier provider in acoustic sensing capabilities for unmanned platforms. We Hear Everything

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• Jem — We give employers the ability to send company-wide communications, deliver payslips, manage leave & give employees access to their earnings, via WhatsApp.
• Immobazyme — Immobazyme provides pioneering the biotechnology industry. Using innovative technologies, along with an environmentally responsible outlook.the company aims to develop an analytical laboratory platform as well as serve the industrial sector through the production of high-value products by organic synthesis and environmental remediationtechnologies.
• Happy Pay — Happy Pay is a credit scoring system developing company. The company integrates an autonomous artificial intelligence technology system with the merchant's platform to increase their average basket size and customer conversion metrics, providing users with buy now, and pay later services.

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• Contro — See a licensed online doctor in South Africa for treatment, advice and prescriptions delivered to your door. Fast, private, doctor-guided care with Zapmed.
• RecoMed — Find the best doctors and dentists. Search by location or by speciality, and find the right doctor for you.
• SigmaX — SigmaX is an e-learning platform that help the students to learn visualize math and learn it a fun way via online application.