The newly launched blended finance platform will connect investors and startups with the long-term capital needs required for many food waste solutions.
As agriculture embraces sustainability, ESG-driven investors see a $3 trillion opportunity.
Carbon Collective hopes to give individual sustainable investment portfolios more power and in doing so force corporations to decarbonize faster.
The agribusiness marketplace for Ghanaian smallholders has raised $6.5 million in equity and $6.4 million in debt.
For Earth Day 2022, we explore some of Africa’s ecosystem enablers working to support and finance climate-smart agriculture startups.
The 10 latest startups to join the GROW Impact Accelerator include tech solutions for protein deficiency, beekeeping, and livestock antibiotic resistance.
It’ll now be able to back more high-growth, ‘mid-cap’ agribusinesses aiming to become regional and global players, says chief investment officer Chris Isaac.
Ghana’s nascent agrifoodtech sector is active, but investors lack familiarity with the market while entrepreneurs are cautious of raising capital too soon.
The year-long program is designed to prime Africa’s agrifoodtech VC pipeline by supporting early-stage startups with investment and business readiness.
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s largest meat, fish, and dairy suppliers present a “high risk” of spreading zoonotic disease from livestock to humans.
The woman-led fund has raised $5.7 million to help the country’s ag sector embrace technology, improve climate resilience, and empower women.
Fresh off its $110 million funding round, Nigeria’s TradeDepot is pushing the boundaries of digitalization and financing for Africa’s small food businesses and retailers.
Chicago-based impact investment fund VestedWorld has supported more than 20 African startups addressing critical social and market needs, like improving cost and value chain for food.
The Kenyan agtech venture is helping small farmers shift toward sustainable commercial farming with access to seeds, finacing and markets.
The Dutch VC invested in the 25-year-old tilapia farming company to curb Africa’s reliance on food imports and address skyrocketing protein needs.
The GROW Impact Accelerator is focused on innovations that allow for scalability while delivering tangible impact at an environmental or social level.
The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.
OKO Finance offers crop insurance to smallholder farmers in Mali – one of the few fintech companies focusing on the landlocked West African country.
The Cape Town-based startup considers itself a farming company enabled by technology, rather than a tech company working in ag, says CEO James Paterson.
The South African private equity firm’s second fund invests in the tech enablement of Africa’s SME agribusinesses – the backbone of the continent’s agriculture sector.
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