About Us

Landport Labs is the home to a family of products and services led by Mike Jones.

We have built, supported and invested in multiple startups across the UK and South Africa via our subsidiary Western Cape Labs.

UK

Chat Budgie: Launching H2 2025

Chat Budgie will be support families wishing to take a less anxious, more inclusive direction in budgeting. More soon.

South Africa

Picsa: Improving financial health for low-income employees in South Africa

Our team built the underlying operating system for this financial services business. We continue to support through being on the Board of Directors and in active product development.

Yebo Fresh: A Smollan Company

Our team built the physical warehouse operations and supporting technology of this food delivery company through explosive growth during the COVID pandemic, then supported the pivot to multi-city until the pre-Series A investment round. Exited to Smollan in early-2025.

One Less Thing: subscription delivery pioneer

One Less Thing was created on our eCommerce platform we built for On The Way (an etsy-like platform targeting South Africa) and was a pioneer in the emerging subscription delivery business model. Our innovations include "one click skip" that lead to a high customer retention rate that allowed customers to easily avoid stockpiling.