Latest Technology News In South Africa
1Spatial’s technology lineage reaches to Laser-Scan, formed in 1969 as an offshoot from Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. The business moved from mapping and spatial databases into data-quality and geospatial automation software, while the listed parent went through corporate reorganisations and adopted the 1Spatial name in 2012.
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RingCentral was founded by Vlad Shmunis and Vlad Vendrow around the idea that business telephone systems could be delivered through software and internet infrastructure rather than only on-premises hardware. By 2026, RingCentral sold cloud communications and contact-centre products to organisations ranging from small businesses to large enterprises.
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cBrain was founded in Denmark in 2002 by Per Tejs Knudsen and built enterprise software for document, case and process management. The company listed in 2006 and increasingly focused on government digitalisation through its F2 platform, which supports public-sector workflows and administrative processes.
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Tracsis was founded in January 2004 as an IP Group spin-out from the University of Leeds to commercialise transport scheduling and optimisation research. It listed on AIM in 2007 and expanded through a long series of acquisitions into rail software, traffic data, events and transport-technology services.
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accesso’s listed-company structure dates to 2000 and for many years traded under the Lo-Q name around virtual-queuing technology. The group acquired ticketing businesses, adopted the accesso Technology Group name in 2013 and expanded into ticketing, virtual queues, guest management and commerce for leisure venues.
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Computer Modelling Group traces its roots to a Calgary research foundation established in 1978 to advance reservoir simulation technology. The organisation commercialised products including IMEX, GEM and STARS during the 1980s and became a publicly listed Canadian software company in 1997.
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The current CLEAR business was founded in 2010 by Caryn Seidman-Becker and Ken Cornick after they acquired the assets of an earlier airport identity service out of bankruptcy. By 2026, CLEAR operated a biometric identity platform used for airport and other verification experiences in the United States.
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ReposiTrak’s technology traces to software developed from the operating experience of Mrs. Fields Cookies and the Park City Group business led by Randall Fields. Park City Group acquired Prescient Applied Intelligence in 2009, took full ownership of ReposiTrak in 2015 and changed the listed company’s name to ReposiTrak in 2023.
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Eleco’s corporate roots reach back to The Gilbert Arc Lamp Company, founded in 1895, long before software became its main business. After decades in engineering and building products, Eleco entered construction software through acquisitions, divested its remaining building-systems operations in 2013 and became a software-focused group.
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VTEX was founded in Brazil in 2000 by Geraldo Thomaz and Mariano Gomide de Faria and developed software for retailers building online stores and commerce operations. In 2026 VTEX provides software-as-a-service commerce infrastructure for large brands and retailers operating across multiple channels and countries.
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