# Top 20 Real Estate Startup Investors in South Africa in June 2026 ## Vinny Lingham - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Software Vinny Lingham is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rumi.ai(Waitroom). He previously worked at YPO as a Member. Vinny Lingham attended Harvard Business School Executive Education. ## Sebastian Stoddart - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Rental, Internet, Analytics 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. ## Justin Stanford - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Security, Financial Services 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'. ## Daniel Guasco - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Rental, Internet, Analytics Innovation. Leadership. Technology. Africa. ## CRE Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software 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. ## Wayne Gosling - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Rental, Internet, Analytics Wayne Gosling - COO @ Twangoo South Africa ## Picus Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech 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. ## Yossi Hasson - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, Payments 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. ## British International Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Finance British International Investment is the UK's development finance institution. We've been at the forefront of supporting companies in developing countries for more than 70 years. ## Knife Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology Knife Capital is an independent growth equity investment firm focusing on innovation-driven ventures with proven traction. By leveraging knowledge, networks & funding, Knife accelerates the international expansion of entrepreneurial businesses that achieved a product/market fit in a beachhead market. Knife have offices in Cape Town andLondon.Knife invests via a consortium of funding partnerships, including SARS section 12J Venture Capital Company KNF Ventures and select family offices. Knife facilitated lucrative exits of local technology companies to the likes of General Electric, Visa, Garmin and Uber. ## Newtown Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Logistics, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Newtown Partners is a venture capital firm that actively invests in emerging, disruptive technology startups. ## Kalon Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Internet, Software 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. ## Polo Leteka - Type: Angel - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Retail, Internet, Logistics Polo Leteka is the Founder and Chairman of IDF Capital SA. She previously worked at Standard Bank of South Africa. Polo Leteka attended the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika. ## Guilherme Steinbruch - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech Guilherme Steinbruch - Partner @ 468 Capital ## Indigo 7 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dyce, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Water, Energy, Software I7V have a wealth of experience in building successful international businesses. More than capital, our support team can help you optimise key functions. ## Industrial Development Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sandown, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Debt Financing, Series A, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Renewable Energy, Mobile, Sustainability The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a national development finance institution set up to promote economic growth and industrial development. ## Liquid Intelligent Technologies - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ebène, Plaines Wilhems, Mauritius - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Employment, Recruiting, Home Services Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. ## IDF Capital SA - Type: VC Fund - Location: Johannesburg, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Automotive, Mobile Apps IDF Capital is an established financier, investing in high growth SMEs/Entrepreneurial businesses. We invest with a gender lens strategy ## Llew Claasen - Type: Angel - Location: Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Logistics, Retail, Health Care 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. ## Vumela Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Hyde Park, Newtownabbey, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Education, Software, E-Commerce 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.