Tag: kenya

Connecting African smallholders with agronomic services, Climate Edge scores seed funding

May 18, 2022

The UK-based startup secured the funds from US investor Regenerate Ventures.

SokoFresh offers cold storage & market linkage to minimize Africa’s post-harvest losses

April 6, 2022

SokoFresh provides a mobile cold storage solution for smallholders in Kenya, based on a ‘pay-as-you-store’ business model.

An eventful week for African agtech as 2 startups raise close to $100m

March 25, 2022

Nigeria’s ThriveAgric and Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raised close to $100 million between them this week in a watershed moment for African agrifoodtech.

12 agtech takeaways from 12 global agriculture experts

March 25, 2022

Rhishi Pethe interviewed 12 agriculture experts from around the world for his new charity e-book. Here are key takeaways from each conversation he had.

African B2B e-commerce platform Wasoko raises $125m in Series B round

March 18, 2022

The Nairobi-based startup – formerly known as Sokowatch – enables informal grocery retailers to restock and finance their stores via its mobile app.

Offering homestyle African cuisine, Kune is changing the face of Kenya’s food delivery sector

March 11, 2022

The Nairobi-based startup raised $1 million in pre-seed funding last year.

Q&A: SupPlant’s Revital Kremer on bringing precision ag to more female farmers worldwide

March 9, 2022

The chief technology officer is leading the charge to make precision irrigation available to women smallholders worldwide.

‘African founders, African VCs, solving African problems’: Marketforce CEO on $40m Series A

March 1, 2022

The Kenyan retail platform connects small-scale merchants with FMCG brands and financing options so that they can grow their businesses.

In Kenya, Apollo Agriculture is building a pathway to commercial farming

January 24, 2022

The Kenyan agtech venture is helping small farmers shift toward sustainable commercial farming with access to seeds, finacing and markets.

How cold storage could be an antidote to Africa’s hefty food imports

December 14, 2021

InspiraFarms is deploying off-grid cold storage technology to help Kenya cut hundreds of millions of dollars of seasonal food waste.

For Lentera Africa, remote work is the future of farming on the continent

November 26, 2021

“The potential for remote farming is huge,” says CEO Moses Kimani.

Agtech innovation will be key to Kenya’s Covid-19 economic recovery

November 19, 2021

Kenya has emerged as a hotspot for agtech innovation in Africa, developing more than 100 solutions driving growth, productivity and sustainability in the agricultural sector.

Investor Q&A: KCV’s Victor Ndiege urges rethink of agtech’s role in African climate resilience

November 9, 2021

The Kenyan fund’s CEO talks about its own hard-learned lessons in everything from promoting tech as a tool, to fighting climate change on the continent.

The Week in Agrifoodtech: Nick’s raises $100m; Bezos pledges $2b against climate change

November 4, 2021

Swedish company Nick’s grabbed the biggest funding round of the week, while India’s cloud kitchen market grew and Twiga Foods got $50 million to expand across Africa.

Q&A: How Pula is breaking through crop insurance barriers to protect Africa’s farmers

October 13, 2021

The Kenyan startup is building a tech bridge between insurance companies and millions of smallholder farmers to protect them from climate change.

Acumen’s new ag fund ushers commercial capital to farmers’ fight against climate change

September 16, 2021

The impact investor aims to prove the commercial “climate resilience” opportunity in African agtech ventures like Kenya’s SunCulture and Nigeria’s Tomato Jos.

Kibanda TopUp aims to boost the long-term resilience of Africa’s food vendors

September 6, 2021

The Kenyan startup is hoping its inventory management app can digitalize supply chains and mitigate financing challenges for food businesses across Africa.

Provivi raises $10m from Gates Foundation to bring insect pheromone tech to smallholder farmers

February 24, 2021

Provivi will use the funds to sell its pheremone-based pest control products to smallholder farmers in Kenya, Bangladesh, and India at cost.

Record-breaking female founder warns of food inflation risk amid Covid-19 & climate change

February 2, 2021

Gro Intelligence CEO Sara Menker thinks that Covid-19’s continuing effects will see a ramping up of food protectionism this year – while climate change will also take a toll.

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.