Agridex says it’s bringing transparency, connectivity and accessibility to ag value chains and its COO, Henry Duckworth believes blockchain is the solution.
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BII plans to designate $250 million to African and Indian startups by 2026, including those developing solutions for smallholder farmers.
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
Aquaconnect will use the new capital to build up its product portfolio for both pre-harvest and post-harvest services for the aquaculture industry.
Eratani, an Indonesian startup providing digital farm management solutions has secured $3.8m in a seed round led by Singapore’s TNB Aura
Achieving food security and boosting smallholder farm incomes go hand in hand; Robert Madziva aims to do both with his digital agribusiness platform.
DeHaat says the Series E round will help the company reach break-even profitability within the next 12 months.
Investment in farm technologies was particularly buoyant, increasing 185% year-on-year and accounting for 60% of the total number of deals closed.
The category’s strong fundraising performance underscores its potential to positively impact Asia-Pacific, especially when it comes to smallholder farmers.
With fresh Series B funding, Agriconomie aims to become the European leader in the organics and regenerative inputs market.
India is by far the region’s most advanced farmtech ecosystem, while a Chinese agricultural drone service raised the biggest farmtech round in 2021.
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
Gramophone has partnered with Yara Ventures-backed Jai Kisan to add loans to its full stack portfolio of services for India’s smallholder farmers.
Midstream Technologies was a leading category after scooping 60% of the total amount of agrifoodtech investments made in Africa in 2021
The Seedz platform aims to transition more farmers in Brazil online while also giving major suppliers more actionable data.
Tractor Zoom will invest in more data science to make its digital marketplace for farm equipment buying as transparent and streamlined as possible.
A look into the flow of venture capital into the agrifootech industry shows Launch Africa, Flat6Labs Cairo led in financing startups
Farmerline claims to have reached over 1.5 million farmers in 35 countries via its Mergdata platform.
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