Tag: agribusiness marketplaces

AgFunder impact fund leads Mayani’s $1.7m seed round to scale Filipino farm and fisheries produce marketplace

January 27, 2023

Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.

Aquaconnect raises $15m to digitize India’s aquaculture supply chain for smallholder farmers

December 20, 2022

Aquaconnect will use the new capital to build up its product portfolio for both pre-harvest and post-harvest services for the aquaculture industry.

Indonesia’s Eratani closes oversubscribed $3.8m seed round led by TNB Aura

December 15, 2022

Eratani, an Indonesian startup providing digital farm management solutions has secured $3.8m in a seed round led by Singapore’s TNB Aura

Meet the Founder: Why Digital Mobile Africa’s Robert Madziva wants to commercialize smallholder farming in Africa

December 9, 2022

Achieving food security and boosting smallholder farm incomes go hand in hand; Robert Madziva aims to do both with his digital agribusiness platform.

Brief: Sofina Ventures & Temasek lead $60m round for ag marketplace DeHaat

December 1, 2022

DeHaat says the Series E round will help the company reach break-even profitability within the next 12 months.

NEW REPORT: Indian agrifoodtech startups net record-breaking $4.6bn in fiscal 2022 year

November 30, 2022

Investment in farm technologies was particularly buoyant, increasing 185% year-on-year and accounting for 60% of the total number of deals closed.

Data snapshot: Agribusiness Marketplaces poised to ‘positively impact’ Asia-Pacific’s smallholder farmers

November 23, 2022

The category’s strong fundraising performance underscores its potential to positively impact Asia-Pacific, especially when it comes to smallholder farmers.

Brief: Agriconomie lands €60m ($60m) to help Europe’s farmers transition to regen ag

November 8, 2022

With fresh Series B funding, Agriconomie aims to become the European leader in the organics and regenerative inputs market.

Data snapshot: India, China & Indonesia lead Asia-Pacific’s farmtech investment right now

November 2, 2022

India is by far the region’s most advanced farmtech ecosystem, while a Chinese agricultural drone service raised the biggest farmtech round in 2021.

Meet the founder: Ahmed Umar on how his fintech platform addresses food security for Nigerians

October 21, 2022

FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.

Gramophone evolves from offering inputs to full stack platform with new lending solutions for farmers

October 10, 2022

Gramophone has partnered with Yara Ventures-backed Jai Kisan to add loans to its full stack portfolio of services for India’s smallholder farmers.

Data Snapshot: African agrifoodtech entrepreneurs and investors are focusing on the supply chain

October 5, 2022

Midstream Technologies was a leading category after scooping 60% of the total amount of agrifoodtech investments made in Africa in 2021

Q&A: How Seedz is digitizing Brazilian agriculture & attracting clients like Deere, Mosaic

October 4, 2022

The Seedz platform aims to transition more farmers in Brazil online while also giving major suppliers more actionable data.

EXCLUSIVE: Tractor Zoom scoops up $5m to bring better data, transparency to farm equipment buying

October 3, 2022

Tractor Zoom will invest in more data science to make its digital marketplace for farm equipment buying as transparent and streamlined as possible.

Data snapshot: Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo lead Africa agrifoodtech investment

September 29, 2022

A look into the flow of venture capital into the agrifootech industry shows Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo led in financing startups

BREAKING: Farmerline nets $1.5m from Oikocredit in second close of $14m pre-Series A round

September 27, 2022

Farmerline claims to have reached over 1.5 million farmers in 35 countries via its Mergdata platform.

BREAKING: Africa agrifoodtech startups raise $1bn in 5 years, but just 1% of global investment

September 20, 2022

The Africa Agrifoodtech Investment Report 2022 by AgFunder, FMO and BII reveals that $482.3 million was invested into the agrifoodtech industry in 2021

Brief: South Korean agrifood sourcing hub Tridge raises $37.2m Series D, reaching $2.7bn valuation

August 25, 2022

Tridge, a South Korean B2B platform connecting buyers and sellers of fresh agricultural produce, is doing around $15m in sales per month, according to the company.