Top 15 Proptech Startup Investors in South Africa
A list of 15 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Proptech startups based in South africa. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Proptech companies from South africa. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Proptech Startup Investors in South Africa
Investor | Proptech South Africa investments |
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Vinny Lingham | 3 |
Justin Stanford | 2 |
Daniel Guasco | 2 |
CRE Venture Capital | 2 |
Wayne Gosling | 2 |
Sebastian Stoddart | 2 |
Vumela Fund | 1 |
Llew Claasen | 1 |
Picus Capital | 1 |
Knife Capital | 1 |
Indigo 7 Ventures | 1 |
Kalon Venture Partners | 1 |
Yossi Hasson | 1 |
Guilherme Steinbruch | 1 |
Newtown Partners | 1 |
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device.
He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites.
Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006.
He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
- Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
- Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free
Justin is a 31-year old entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa. He is founder, MD, board member, advisor, or investor to a wide variety of companies in the global technology sector.Having grown up on a farm, he decided not to complete high-school and instead made the move to the city of Cape Town, topursue his dreams of being an Internet entrepreneur.Despite years of struggles and false starts in the wake of the dotcom crash in 2001, he ultimately went on to successfully launch and grow a pan-African Internet based software company from a garage in the suburbs of Cape Town.Have founded his first startup attempt at the age of 18, Justin has been involved in tech startups and entrepreneurial endeavours ever since.He is today the co-founder and MD of 4Di Group, a diversified investment management group and family office, and co-founding General Partner of early-stage technology venture capital firm 4Di Capital, as well as an active angel investor.As co-founder and Steering Committee Chairman of the Silicon Cape Initiative in 2009, designed to highlight and foster South Africa's nascent emerging tech startup ecosystem, Justin fully believes in South Africa’s potential as a global technology innovation hub.In 2011, he was listed by the Mail & Guardian for the 'Top 200 Young South Africans', and in 2013, listed by Forbes for '30 Under 30: Africa's Best Young Entrepreneurs'.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Security
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- FitKey — FitKey is about helping you find and manage the fitness life that makes you happy, through discovering new classes, studios, and fitness activities. With easy online and mobile booking, FitKey keeps your routine interesting.
- TaxTim — Originally funded by Google in 2011, TaxTim is Africa's answer to Making Tax Easy. Answer simple questions one-by-one, in a friendly automated chat, and your tax return is done in minutes. TaxTim has 40% market share of the tax base in South Africa (~4.5m), and has deployed localised versions in Namibia and Nigeria as JVs with PwC previously.TaxTim is integrated with the local revenue service (SARS) for instant electronic tax submissions, and partners with some of SA's largest consumer brands - Airbnb, Momentum, Sanlam, Old Mutual, FNB eBucks - to provide tax services for free or at discount. TaxTim has several business models including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. TaxTim is a compelling and popular consumer brand, with a fully-developed, profitable broker/financial product leads ecosystem.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
Innovation. Leadership. Technology. Africa.
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Investment focus
- Rental, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Angel
- South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 8bit — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
- intelworld —
Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- South Africa, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sabi Am — Sabi is Africa's largest B2B company, & we are digitising informal trade via our platform. We access markets hard to reach and ensure ease of distribution, & are the No 1 FCMG supplier in Africa.
- Sukhiba — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
- Stitch — One API integration for all online payments across South Africa. Accept Pay by bank, debit + credit card, cash, manual EFT, debit order and crypto. Orchestrate + reconcile digital payments across methods and send payouts
Wayne Gosling - COO @ Twangoo South Africa
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Investment focus
- Rental, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Angel
- South Africa, United Kingdom
Sebastian Stoddart after working for 10 years as a product design consultant for top design consultancies in the US, Netherlands and UK, working for clients such as Samsung, Philips, Smith & Nephew, Compaq and Hewlett Packard, Sebastian formed his own company, albooto.com, to bring innovative products to market.
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Investment focus
- Rental, Internet, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- 8bit — 8Bit is localised content discovery and analytics platform dedicated to the distribution of high-quality content across their network of indie publishers.
- Ekaya.com — Ekaya exists to make renting simpler, safer and more connected - for everyone.
- Boost Technology — Enabling informal small businesses to thrive in Africa's emerging digital economy
Vumela was established in 2009 by FNB Business Banking and Edge Growth. The objective was to create an innovative model for the development of a sustainable and a financially and operationally independent investment business which invests in high growth small, medium and micro size enterprises with good economic and impact returns.Vumela wascapitalised in 2010. Within the first four years, we’d invested R90 million into eight high growth SMEs, and created a total of 400 jobs. They launched their second fund in 2015, after a further investment of R100 million from FirstRand and R127 million from the Jobs Fund. Within the first year of launching this second fund, we’ve committed R43 million to five investments that are expected to create over 1800 new jobs.The first fund of its kind in South Africa, Vumela’s main goals are to invest in and develop entrepreneurial companies in order to help alleviate poverty in South Africa by creating jobs, and to generate a return for its beneficiaries: the Shalamuka Foundation and the FirstRand Group.
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Investment focus
- Education, Software, Primary Education
- Funding Round, Seed, Debt Financing
- South Africa, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Rentoza — We champion giving you access, affordability and flexibility to explore tech on your own terms
- Kombo King — Kombo King Ventless Fryer Tech removes the need for plumes of steam & the constant eye of an inconsistent employee to Revolutionize & solve the frying industry!
- Kusini Water — Kusini Water builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and macadamia nut shells.
Llew is the Managing Partner of Newtown Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startup businesses. Founded and run by internationally successful entrepreneurs, Vinny Lingham and Llew Claasen, Newtown Partners has an entrepreneurial focus that goes beyond investment. The team operatesout of offices in Cape Town, South Africa and Sunnyvale, California (Silicon Valley).Llew is a go-to-market strategist with almost two decades of senior management experience in cryptoassets (since 2012), digital product management and digital marketing.He co-founded Clicks2customers (rebranded to www.nmpidigital.com) with Vinny Lingham, now a global digital marketing agency with annual billings in excess of $100 million and Synthasite (rebranded to www.yola.com).Llew is also the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the original, the oldest and the largest Bitcoin advocacy organization globally, headquartered in San Francisco, U.S.Llew has a Masters degree in the Management of Technology & Innovation and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Health Care, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa
Portfolio highlights
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.
- Clockwork Logistics Systems — Intelligent Delivery Automation for the Global Supply Chain - Clockwork digitizes processes and extend existing systems into the people who do work to deliver goods across the global supply chain through a software only digital platform.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
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- Alvys — Alvys is a cloud-based transportation management system with high-tech automation. Specializing in workflow efficiency for small to mid-size carriers. Alvys stands out by saving carriers and freight brokers more time per load than any other TMS! Save up to 30 minutes per load, organize your operations in one place, scale with ease and integrateall your favorite tools. The proof is in the workflows and here's a sneak peek of our popular features:• Driver App • Tracking & Tracing • Source for Truck Capacity • End-to-End Visibility • One Click Accounting • Analytics & Reporting • Safety & Maintenance • Integrations • Benefits for BrokersTRY US FOR FREE! www.alvys.com
- Hive — Fulfillment with Hive means 100% peace of mind at up to 30% cost savings. Move your operations to Hive now.
- Niva — Niva's business identity platform enables institutions across the globe to verify more businesses faster, safer, and smarter with AI. Scale your fraud and compliance teams with Niva.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- South Africa, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Octiv — Octiv is a well-known platform for gym management software.
- Outsized — Independent talent for enterprise clients and consulting firms in Asia-Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.
- Simera Sense — Simera Sense develops camera control electronics for optical payload and Cubesat imager solutions.
I7V have a wealth of experience in building successful international businesses. More than capital, our support team can help you optimise key functions.
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- Water, Energy, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, South Africa
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- Zelim — Zelim is a technology company that specializes in unmanned search, rescue and recover people with the help of technology.
- Roundr — Roundr is a performance management platform for estate agencies and a productivity app for agents all in one, used by agencies large and small who engage with and sell property for clients on a regular basis.
- Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
A growing number of South Africans are investing in venture capital companies that operate under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act. Contact us now.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Luxembourg, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GoMetro — See All Your Vehicles, All The Time | Go Metro
- Talk360 — Talk360 is an easy-to-use calling app that helps people make affordable international calls to any mobile and landline number. They believe that reliable communication and digital services must be affordable and accessible to everyone, regardless of someone's background. Especially people in emerging countries in Africa, who often need theseservices the most, do not always have the necessary banking possibilities. To bridge this distance, Talk360 will launch the world's first single checkout platform for Africa. This platform will combine all locally available payment methods and currencies across Africa, together with over 1.25 million cash points of sales, and will eventually be available to other companies as well. This means that 500 million Africans will be able to purchase digital services they never had access to before.
- Sendmarc — Stop cyber criminals from sending emails using your domain and protect your customers, suppliers and employees from cyber attacks with DMARC Security.
Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. He is also a Non-Executive Director of WeThinkCode_. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of Techstars. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- South Africa, United States, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- Ozow — Easy, fast, safe online payments and bank API solutions for merchants and consumers across South Africa. Secure instant EFT directly from bank to bank.
- Howler — Howler, is the powerful event technology platform designed at the uppermost benchmarks of service and technology to help consumers and event organisers to make moments that matter.
- The Sun Exchange — The Sun Exchange is the peer-to-peer solar leasing marketplace. We leverage financial innovation and the power of the crowd to drive sustainable energy development and make the environmental, social and economic benefits of solar accessible and affordable for all. Through the Sun Exchange online platform, anyone, anywhere in the world, can buyremotely-located solar cells and then lease them to power businesses and organisations in sunny emerging markets. Solar cell owners earn income from the electricity that’s generated, while schools, businesses, clinics and other organisations gain access to affordable clean energy, reducing electricity costs and carbon emissions.
Guilherme Steinbruch - Partner @ Global Founders Capital
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Investment focus
- Music, Food Delivery, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Ireland, South Africa, United States
Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- South Africa, Ghana, Kenya
Portfolio highlights
- Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
- Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
- Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
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