Top Funded South Africa Startups of 2025

dLocal enables global merchants to accept and send payments across emerging markets via one API.

Flow48 enables SME growth by transforming future revenues into up-front capital under flexible terms.

SolarSaver offers customized solar photovoltaic and solar-battery hybrid solutions.

Stitch is a South African fintech platform building API to make Africa a world-leader in fintech.

Paymenow is a financial wellness and inclusion platform that allows employees on demand access to earned wages.

Naked Insurance provides instant, honest insurance at game-changing prices.

Wetility enables you smartly generate solar power on your rooftop, then seamlessly store, release and monitor clean energy to your home or business.

Aura is a South African cloud-based security and safety startup.

Grid Africa is a leader in solar energy solutions, dedicated to advancing the adoption of renewable energy across Africa.

Contactable enables secure digital identity verification across African industries.

Nile.ag is revolutionizing the way food is traded across Africa

The Invigilator is designed to uphold academic integrity during remote assessments using AI-powered invigilation tools.

swiftVEE is a South African AgriTech startup with a platform that addresses water scarcity, food security, and market efficiency for the livestock sector

Lulalend is an online lending company that provides fast and easy working capital funding to small businesses in South Africa.

My Next Car connects drivers with affordable vehicle rental solutions, helping them earn through driving on e-hailing platform Bolt.

Cerebrium is enabling businesses to build and deploy ML products quickly and easily. Creating a AWS Sagemaker alternative.

JUMO is a technology platform, developed for building and running financial services.

KHULA! is a South African mobile marketplace for farmers.

FARO is Africa’s fastest growing fashion venture - on a mission to build the world’s most innovative fashion outlet and reduce waste.

Insight Terra provides real-time actionable insight into all your critical data.

Zero Carbon Charge is a South African startup specialising in clean mobility infrastructure.

Yaga is a resale fashion marketplace enabling safe, sustainable secondhand clothing trade globally.

Salus Cloud is a South African AI-native platform revolutionising Developer & Security Operations (DevSecOps) for engineers.

Jem is the employee benefits and HR platform built for deskless workers on WhatsApp.

Ageiro builds enterprise AI that converts business intent into software, automating development and accelerating innovation.