About Gmaven

We give you the tools so you can get down to business.

Gmaven is a team of data, software and devops engineers, and commercial property data specialists. We do the grunt work that others can't, so you can decide on fact and move faster than your competition.

Why we exist

Grow African prosperity through trusted commercial property data.

Capital flows to markets it can trust. Where property data is missing, stale or hoarded, risk is guessed at, money stays away or demands a premium, and the advantage sits with insiders. We spend our days making commercial property data trustworthy, because trusted data makes markets transparent, transparent markets are fairer, and fair markets attract the investment that builds prosperity. And because serious data work is done by people, doing it our way creates skilled jobs along the way.

1 in 4
of all people on Earth will be African by 2050.
United Nations, World Population Prospects.

The next generation's markets are being built here. We are building the data they will run on.

Our manifesto

Less time on the data. More time on the decision.

Decision-makers should spend their time on what matters: getting down to business. Technology should take care of the time-expensive, non-core work that sits between you and your result. So that is what we do. We wrangle data to work for you. We acquire it, clean it, structure it, enrich it, map it and automate it, so you can master your market in the shortest time and the simplest way possible. We put our specialist skill behind your ambition, and the mastery becomes yours.

Our name

Geospatial. Maven. It says exactly what we do.

G is for geospatial.
Points on a map, joined into paths, closed into polygons. The most precise way to hold and use location-relevant commercial data.
Maven means a trusted expert.
From the Hebrew, via Yiddish: one who understands, from an accumulation of knowledge, and shares it with others.

Put them together and you have us: the geospatial experts you can trust.

How we work

What we value.

Be number one

We aim to be the best at what we do, not one of many.

Serve and help

We take deep meaning in the success of our clients.

Innovation and pioneering

We search for a faster, cleaner, smarter way to solve problems old and new.

Fairness

With our clients, our partners and our people.

Hungry to learn and grow

Serious data work builds serious skills. Our people stay hungry for both, and the growth endures.

More than tech

Real data work, real jobs.

Gmaven is unavoidably labour-intensive. We build skills and create employment in under-served communities across South Africa and in emerging markets, for all genders. Serious data work, done by people, imparts real training and skills. That creates opportunity and feeds dignity, and we are grateful that our work, and the trust our clients place in us, makes it possible.

Skills and jobs, created by the work itself.
Heritage

Two decades of serious commercial data work.

Founded 2013
RICS Technology Partner
SAPOA, PropTech & Grading committees
IDC SPII innovation grant

The team's work in this field dates back to 2006; Gmaven, founded in 2013, is the company it grew into. See the full track record on our home page.

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