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.
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ProXalys raises funds to reinvent supply chain in Francophone Africa
February 22, 2022
The Dakar-based startup is boosting linkages between smallholder farmers and small-scale vendors in Senegal’s informal retail sector.
Brief: Relex raises $568m to help grocery retailers fight food waste
February 18, 2022
Food retailers need technologies that can automate the supply chain to minimize disruptions and optimize inventory management.
Q&A: Ignatius Akpabio on TradeDepot’s $110m raise & Africa’s e-commerce surge
February 4, 2022
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.
Retailo raises $36m Series A funding from AgFunder, Graphene & others
February 1, 2022
The Riyadh-based B2B marketplace said it’ll use the Series A funds for geographical expansion, and to launch new products and verticals.
Data Snapshot: India’s most active funding category last year? Midstream Tech
January 19, 2022
Midstream Tech deals increased in response to the problems and inefficiencies in India’s agrifood supply chains highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Q&A: AFEX’s $100m bond aims to unlock climate-smart capital for Nigeria’s ag sector
January 14, 2022
The Food Security Fund will be used to finance 250,000 hectares of commercial and smallholder farmland in Nigeria for climate-smart production.
Brief: Walmart robot provider Symbotic announces $5.5bn SoftBank SPAC
December 14, 2021
Symbotic said it’ll use the proceeds to “accelerate its growth plans” and “efficiently deliver on its contracted backlog.”
Vendease wants to be the Amazon for Nigeria’s food vendors
December 9, 2021
The Lagos-based startup is aiming to make the country’s food supply chain much more predictable for stakeholders by using data, drivers, and loans.
Investors are clamoring for a slice of Egypt’s B2B logistics tech scene
December 2, 2021
Trella, Capiter, and MaxAB are among dozens of startups that have raised funding of late to overhaul Egypt’s fragmented and inefficient B2B logistics space.
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.
Get It is redesigning the food distribution chain in Rwanda – all of it
November 12, 2021
The Rwandan company has experienced — and taken on — the full range of food production, manufacturing, and distribution challenges one would expect in a frontier market, says founder Lauren Nkuranga.
Data Snapshot: Supply chain issues drove $3.1bn investment in midstream tech in H1 2021
November 3, 2021
Supply chain, warehousing, and logistics solutions led the investment rounds for Midstream Technologies in the first half of the year.
Culling 150,000 healthy pigs shouldn’t ‘just happen’ in a functioning food system, Mr Johnson
October 8, 2021
Animal agriculture can become a more sustainable enterprise with the help of technology, investment, and entrepreneurialism.
Meet the founder: Retailo’s Talha Ansari talks supply chain digitalization in the Middle East
September 15, 2021
“At Careem, we were barely scratching the surface. From tax filing [to] transportation, we realized no-one had tried to solve the problems of the retail industry.”
Pasarnow scores $3.3m seed funding to upgrade Indonesia’s fresh food supply chain
September 8, 2021
The Jakarta-based startup is relying on micro-fulfillment, refrigeration, and last-mile, ‘in-time’ delivery – as well as its 1,000-plus farmer partners – to do it.
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.
UK’s Collectiv Food banks $17m to transform urban food supply chains
July 19, 2021
The London-based startup allows foodservice clients to buy meat, seafood, and plant-based protein collectively and have it delivered sustainably and transparently.
Ag commodities platform Tridge scores $60m Series C funding
July 12, 2021
The South Korean startup will set up packing and warehousing facilities in 50 “strategic” countries while hiring to expand its engagement, fulfillment, and platform development teams.
After overtaking Alibaba, ag marketplace Pinduoduo is focusing on foodtech to hit profitability
July 5, 2021
Having overtaken e-commerce behemoth Alibaba on the active buyers front, Pinduoduo’s looking upstream at alt-protein and logistics tech, its sustainability head tells AFN.
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