Yakeey, a Moroccan property technology startup, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round, one of the largest proptech investments ever recorded in North Africa. The platform operates a digital real estate marketplace connecting buyers, sellers, and agents across Morocco’s property market, which has historically been fragmented and difficult to navigate for both local and diaspora buyers. The funding will be used to deepen Yakeey’s technology infrastructure, expand its listings database, and begin rolling out its services into other North African markets where the gap between property supply and accessible, transparent information remains significant.
Key points
- Yakeey raised $15 million in a Series A round in January 2026, one of the largest proptech deals in North Africa
- The platform connects property buyers, sellers, and agents through a digital marketplace in Morocco
- Funds will support technology development, database expansion, and regional growth into other North African markets
- Morocco’s real estate sector is valued at over $20 billion and is increasingly attracting diaspora buyers from Europe
- Proptech is an emerging vertical in Africa’s tech ecosystem, with South Africa, Nigeria, and Egypt also seeing early-stage activity
- African tech startup funding reached $4.1 billion in 2025, with North Africa contributing $246 million in debt financing alone
Morocco’s property market has long been of interest to the country’s large diaspora community in France, Spain, and Belgium, who account for a significant share of residential purchases. Yet the lack of standardised listing data, reliable pricing information, and digital transaction tools has made the process cumbersome. Yakeey’s platform addresses this gap directly, and its Series A signals that investors see a commercially viable path to becoming the region’s dominant proptech platform, in the same way that similar marketplaces have scaled across East and West Africa in adjacent sectors.
Why it matters: Property is one of the most significant asset classes for African diaspora investors seeking exposure to their home markets. A reliable, transparent, and tech-enabled real estate marketplace in North Africa opens that market to a much wider pool of buyers, including millions of Moroccans living in Europe who have historically found property investment difficult to navigate from abroad.
Source: Disrupt Africa
