Meet the founder: Ahmed Umar on how his fintech platform addresses food security for Nigerians
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
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.
The Africa Agrifoodtech Investment Report 2022 by AgFunder, FMO and BII reveals that $482.3 million was invested into the agrifoodtech industry in 2021
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.
Ghana’s Wangara Green Ventures is an impact and climate focused fund supporting small and growing climate-friendly businesses.
American ag equipment manufacturer John Deere made a minority investment into the tractor sharing and management platform, Hello Tractor. Here’s why.
The forthcoming program aims to help produce growers generate residual income from carbon credits and become more resilient to climate change.
Nigeria’s female-led Traders of Africa is helping facilitate the trade of African sourced produce, bridging the trust divide between buyers and sellers while at it.
Hailing from Mali, Oumar Barou Togola wanted to give back to his home country in a way that empowered and subsequently increased incomes for the project’s benefactors – female smallholders. Thus the journey of Hello Savanna began.
Agri fintech startups raised $1.6bn in 2021 across 93 deals. Here the report author digs into two more trends: a booming Africa and stilted Europe.
The digital ag marketplace aims to bring fairer prices to restaurants and retailers and more profit to small and medium farmers.
It will use the capital injection to expand its geographic footprint, build out its supply chain capabilities, and introduce insurance products.
It says revenue from its marketplace for new and used farm vehicles grew 7x over the past two years.
The agribusiness marketplace for Ghanaian smallholders has raised $6.5 million in equity and $6.4 million in debt.
Nigeria’s ThriveAgric and Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raised close to $100 million between them this week in a watershed moment for African agrifoodtech.
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