proptech

Game-changing proptech: Lisa launches in SA

In a move set to shake up South Africa’s commercial real estate landscape, Dutch-based technology platform Lisa BV is launching its smart leasing platform…

Africa Proptech Forum to pioneer innovation in real estate

The much-awaited Africa Proptech Forum is set to kick off on 11 October 2023 at the Marriott Hotel, Melrose Arch in Johannesburg, South Africa….

Women in property: She Builds graduates shatter glass ceiling

Property Point and Growthpoint Properties are celebrating the ground-breaking success of their women-only enterprise development programme, She Builds. Designed to break down the gender…

Parket unleashes parking innovation in Jozi

Proptech start-up Parket has officially launched in Johannesburg, offering a promising solution to the city’s parking challenges. Founder and CEO Joshua Raphael shares his…

Flow is ‘barometer of proptech growth in SA’

It comes to no surprise that fintech is the kingmaker in the African investment space. After all, the value of this is set to…

Egypt proptech startup, Nawy, raises $5M in seed funding

Egyptian proptech startup, Nawy, has concluded its seed funding round securing $5 million in investment led by the Sawiris family office. Nawy is an…

South African proptech startup expands to Australia

Founded by Gil Sperling and Daniel Levy, Flow is a South African proptech startup that automates rental and seller listings on Facebook, Instagram, and…

Local proptech company HouseMe secures funding

Cape Town-based proptech startup HouseME has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from new and existing investors. HouseME has secured an undisclosed amount of…

Nigerian real estate firm Landwey acquires 25% stake in proptech platform Vistafront

Nigerian real estate investment firm Landwey has acquired a 25% stake in Lagos-based proptech platform Vistafront. Vistafront’s LinkedIn profile states that it was founded…

Fintech accounts for over a third of SA tech startup investments in 2019 so far

Over a third of the over R500-million rand in venture capital (VC) investments directed to SA tech startups so far this year, has gone…

Don’t count on death of the estate agent says Leadhome co-founder

Real-estate companies may be betting on the imminent death of the estate agent, but the co-founder of a leading SA residential property platform claims…

As SA proptech sector hots up here are five startups to watch

The proptech sector is hotting up. Last year saw online estate agency PropertyFox acquire fellow Cape Town based property platform Steeple for an undisclosed sum and Pam Golding Properties buy up…

Property technology SA PropTech to host first event next month

A new networking organisation for South Africa’s growing property technology — or proptech — sector is set to be held in Johannesburg next month….

HouseMe secures ‘multi-million’ rand deal, declines to reveal who investors are

While Cape Town based proptech startup HouseMe last week announced that it had secured what it calls a “multi-million” rand investment — the company’s co-founder…

Pick a sector, add internet and your firm could be worth millions [Opinion]

Given all the press, you would be forgiven for thinking that startups were have only become a thing in the last 20 years. The…

SA proptech startup HouseMe crowned winner at Seedstars Cape Town

Cape Town based proptech startup HouseMe has come out tops at Seedstars Cape Town. HouseMe was placed first at the event, which was held last Friday (19…

HAVAÍC acquires 10% stake in SA real-estate portal Instant Property

Cape Town based venture capital (VC) company Havaíc has acquired a 10% equity stake in commercial real-estate portal Instant Property. In a statement yesterday (15…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV