Tag: africa

Brrrief! InspiraFarms closes Series B to roll out solar powered cold storage units across Africa

May 28, 2020

Expanding the cold chain across the African continent is both necessary and hard.

The Crucial Role of AgTech: The battle for a food-secure world

May 26, 2020

Where there is tech, there is a way – How AgTech is helping to harvest opportunities in the crisis Join the African Agri Council on

Earth Day: In Africa, agtech is Earth tech, even during a health crisis

April 22, 2020

Agtech adoption in Africa is limited. But where new technologies are gaining traction, there is often a clear connection to climate impact.

THRIVE Ag& Food Tech Innovation Summit 2020

March 25, 2020

The THRIVE Innovation Summit is held annually in Silicon Valley and each year attracts 250+ agribusiness leaders, investors, AgTech and FoodTech startups, and California and

Africa Agri Tech 2020

February 18, 2020

Africa Agri Tech offers three days of unparalleled discovery, exploration and networking. The event offers a multi-tiered expo and conference programme that will investigate the

It’s time for investors to embrace nutritious foods

December 18, 2019

Most ag investment flows to high-income countries, and currently very little reaches the food systems of low-income regions like Africa, with virtually none going to support highly nutritious foods, according to GAIN.

We just invested in the fastest-growing agtech company and farmer network in the world

October 30, 2019

People often ask us if agtech will have a Facebook or Google and we’ve told them to look to marketplaces in emerging markets. It’s also important to us at AgFunder that startups have a clear mission and there’s no more noble mission than uplifting the fortunes of the world’s largest workforce.

Twiga’s $30m Goldman Sachs-led Series B towers over African agri-food tech like a friendly giraffe

October 29, 2019

The Kenyan B2B food distribution company’s combined Series B equity and debt round represents the largest early stage investment in African agrifood tech in 2019 to date.

Checking in with Aerobotics

October 1, 2019

Word has been getting around about Aerobotics’ incredible decision support technology for tree crops. Rob Leclerc shares some facts and figures about the startup’s rapid growth to-date.

Kuli Kuli launches moringa products into 2,500 Walmarts

September 19, 2019

Kuli Kuli is driving the moringa products market in the US with over 50% of a segment that’s now in 3% of US households.

How AgBiome develops microbial tech to help African farmers combat sweet potato weevil

September 12, 2019

The sweet potato weevil is a very difficult pest to control and it is a serious pest in Africa. So the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation asked AgBiome if they’d be willing to work on it. They’re now entering phase 2.

Global Agripreneurs Summit

September 7, 2019

This year’s theme will be centered around “Defining the Future Farmer 4.0”. Envisioning how technology will transform the current role of the farmer and what

India’s CropIn and Dutch 20tree.ai Win Rainforest Alliance’s AgTech Developer Challenge

July 16, 2019

To mobilize the innovative power of the remote sensing sector for cocoa, the Rainforest Alliance recently announced the Ag-tech developer challenge – a call to remote-sensing, high-tech and earth-observation companies.

How a Track & Trace Tech Startup is Fighting Crop Input Fraud in Ghana

April 23, 2019

QualiTrace, a young Ghanaian startup providing a track & trace solution for agrochemical manufacturers and farmers, is trying to fight this battle that stems from the lack of proper government regulation on imports of agrochemicals.

Sidai Is Revving Up Kenyan Farming with Fleets of Motorbikes and a Fresh Round Of Funding

April 18, 2019

Many Kenyan farms struggle for access to quality farming products like vaccines, fertilizers or diagnostic equipment; the farmers also find it hard to attain or acquire sound veterinary or technical expertise, according to Sidai.

A closer look at the agrifood startup ecosystem in Ghana and West Africa

April 5, 2019

Editor’s Note: Maciej Bulanda is the partnerships & communications manager at SmartHectar Innovations, a German innovation hub focused on agrifood and water. Together with entrepreneurship

Launching of The Digital Farmer’s Platform TRITECH AGRIC

January 1, 2019

Tritech Business Solutions Limited shall be launching the their Digital Farmer’s platform called Tritech Agric on the 1st of January 2019 by 11am at the

Agritech Startup Spotlight: Wefarm’s 1m+ African Farmer Information Network Extends to Ag Marketplace

December 11, 2018

Wefarm is a mobile phone-based farmer network and collective for smallholders farmers in Africa that’s recently launched an online marketplace for ag products.

3 Ways Ag Startups Can Strengthen the Enabling Environment for their Businesses in Developing Markets

November 26, 2018

Here are three ways private sector agricultural businesses can engage to strengthen policies, regulations, and laws with benefits to both their business and the agricultural sector more broadly.

African AgriFood Tech Startups are not Waiting on Western Tech

August 8, 2018

Thought for Food founder and CEO Christine Gould said that since her competition looks for both impact and commercial viability, the finalists in the TFF Challenge offer much more geographic variety than other food and agtech competitions.