Archives: Start-Up Profiles

eProd Solutions is an ICT platform to manage the sourcing of small-scale suppliers using big data and artificial intelligence. It’s affordable and optimized for low bandwidth. The system manages farmer databases, registration, production contracts, field inspections, collections, training, communication, agintelligence, payments, traceability, weather information, market compliance, access to finance.

Duhqa is a FoodTech, Logistics, and FinTech company that connects manufacturers and retailers, allowing them to access goods in an efficient and convenient manner. They assist farmers with procurement, distribution, and financing.

SKT Aeroshutter is a technology-driven service provider that specializes in aerial data collection, analysis, and recommendations using machine learning and artificial intelligence. They provide geospatial data analysis services, including asset inspection, 3D modelling, drone maintenance, mapping and surveying, crop spraying and crop monitoring.

ReNile is a leading Agritech company providing end-to-end solutions for smart farming using the internet of things (IoT) and water, air and soil quality management. ReNile systems provide cutting-edge real-time online analytics that helps enhance the production efficiency and reduce consumption of our customer farms. ReNile provides a full solution from monitoring farms, alerting in […]

Jangolo created an ecosystem where farmers can plan and manage their production through three different platforms. Farmer.cm allows users to easily manage their products and get in touch with their main partners (fellow farmers, suppliers, and business customers). The second platform Jangolo.cm is specialized in selling farmers’ produce to end consumers while the third one […]

Agrix Tech is an Agri-FinTech company, that helps small-scale farmers to transition from subsistence farming to commercial farming and maximize their profit. It provides farmers with a bundle of services such as financing, farm inputs, consultancy, insurance, and market access. Additionally, Agrix uses machine learning and satellite data to enable better credit decisions.

MyFugo, an animal health startup, is a SaaS-based enterprise solution that enables livestock farmers to capture and record livestock breeding data to improve yield and profitability through selective breeding.

Umojalands Systems offers 3 digital services to improve food security in Zimbabwe. First, the Farmland marketplace is a digital platform where farmers can find land available to sell or lease including vital information about it (e.g., legal documentation, crop history, average soil temperatures). Secondly, the precision agriculture software (agronomybox) generates recommendations using satellite data and […]

EzyAgric is an Agri-FinTech company that provides a digital marketplace for genuine agricultural products and services. One of their services (Ezycredits) offers customized and collateral free agricultural loans to help your farm and agroshop run more smoothly. Provide information to farmers to improve farm extension services and agronomic practices.

Bringo Fresh provides affordable quality foods (primarily fruits and vegetables) and aims to tackle inefficiencies in the food supply chain. Therefore, Bringo Fresh sources fresh quality produce from farmers and deliver it to clients wherever they are. Using Bringo, farmers will get better prices and consistent demand, while retailers receive fresh produce at competitive prices […]

Seabex provides farmers with an AI-based solution that increases yield, protects the soil, and conserves water without the need for expensive hardware. The platform generates irrigation recommendations by compiling soil, plant, and climate data in a sensorless manner, enabling farmers to make informed decisions and improve their overall yields and profits. Accessed either via an […]

Poslik is an intelligent cash register system. It allows restaurants, cafés, and hotel owners to easily track and manage orders, stocks, and supplies. The solution is composed of a hardware and software which collects real-timed data on a single digital platform. Whereby, thanks to the integrated system of customers and suppliers (supermarkets, cooperatives etc.) Bookkeeping […]

Be Wireless Solutions is a vertical digital solution that allows companies to centralize all data on resource consumption (e.g., energy, gas, water, fuel) in a unique tool. The tool allows to predict, plan, and monitor needed resources, and suggest how to save them. The different solutions are composed of a soft- and hardware component, and […]

Mavuno Technologies is an Agri-FinTech company that uses satellite imagery and machine learning to empower African smallholder farmers. They provide African smallholder farmers with a yearly subscription to a service bundle that includes farm inputs, advisory and financial services and which leads to increased harvest yields.

DMA Limited (Digital Mobile Africa) is building Africa’s Digital Operating System For Smallholder Food and Agribusiness, real-time farm data and a digital marketplace. Their mobile-first technology in the hands of Village Agents, drives ecosystemwide value by offering improved access to finance, affordable high-quality inputs, mechanisation, climate-smart agricultural education, value-added services & market access.

BizyTech is a digital marketplace that aims to link, streamline and optimize activities by stakeholders in the agriculture value chain, from farm preparation to market, designed to improve efficiency, increase productivity and provide more information and resources to farmers and other stakeholders. By harnessing the power of data analytics, USSD technology, and an offline mobile […]

Shopit enables informal grocery stores in townships to compare bulk prices from wholesalers in their area, order their stock directly from their phone and then getting it delivered to their store within a few hours. Shopit enables store owners to become more efficient so they can offer better and more affordable goods and services to […]

Dropp‘s application ‘Homemade’ is an eCommence platform that connects people who want to order food with people that cook at home authentic Nigerian cuisines.

TOLBI offers a precision agriculture solution. AI and remote sensing (satellite imagery) are used to gather individual realtime data for improved resource efficiency and sustainable agriculture. Tolbi provides customized information about the needed amount of water and fertilizer per day and indicates the best planting and harvesting dates to maximise yields and minimise the impact […]

Samalife is a food tech company. It operates multi-brand restaurants from their shared kitchen and provides the same capacity to food entrepreneurs. Samalife intends to create a community kitchen in all large African cities to cater the food delivery needs by removing the daunting upfront infrastructure, rental and technology cost for small food business owners, […]

Afri-Farmers Market created a leading e-commerce platform that connects thousands of local farmers with consumers in Rwanda. The social enterprise supports rural smallholder farmers to access stable markets for their agricultural produce by leveraging on technology. In addition, they provide farmers with consultancy of sustainable farming practices, access to farm inputs, and capacity-building skills to […]

Zowasel has developed a sustainable commodity marketplace that connects growers and buyers to save time and money. The platform leverages data science and artificial intelligence to improve farmers’ productivity, sustainability and profitability across the value chain from seed to market.

Winich Farms is platforming Africa’s informal agro supply chain, connecting informal processors, retailers with food producers directly without middlemen via a democratized approach. Additionally, building them a credit score/rating as they transact enabling them access financially inclusive services like credit and insurance.

Koolboks aims to make refrigeration accessible and affordable to everyone. Their solar-powered freezers, equipped with a digital Pay-As-You-Go technology and offered through an innovative Cooling-as-a-Service model, enable eco-friendly and accessible refrigeration to everyone who needs it.

Kitovu builds climate-smart farm and post-harvest infrastructure that enables smallholder farmers in distant pocket locations to access personalized agronomic advisory, storage, and market access services. We provide smallholder farmers with quality and yield-increasing inputs and access to markets by using remote sensing and data science to collect and analyze field, soil, and market demand data, […]

Kokari Coconuts & Company is an integrated coconut processing company to the food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries in Nigeria and across Africa. The company uses an ERP system to track the supply of raw materials all the way to the finished product and to the inventory.

FarmSpeak Technology designs smart monitoring and management systems for livestock farmers to optimize their production. Their hardware device, Penkeep, uses IoT technology to capture the microclimatic parameters of a poultry house. This data is then integrated in the FarmSpeak Manager, an innovative software solution that helps farmers digitize their operations and diagnose poultry diseases in […]

eVet is a cloud-based platform that provides on demand veterinary extension services and agricultural inputs to farmers accessible via their mobile phones. A livestock farmer can take a set of pictures of his animal, then the AI model recognizes the disease and proposes medical recommendations or connects the farmer to a nearby vet. With the […]

ePoultry.NG is using data analytics and cloud computing to drive data-driven agriculture with a data and marketplace platform. Financial institutions rely on their platform to provide data-driven input funding for agribusinesses. This promotes financial inclusion and unlocks investment into African agriculture. The marketplace connects farmers to premium markets in order to reduce post-harvest loss and […]

Cleva (Vetsark) is a neo bank and bookkeeping software for livestock farms. It integrates farming and banking data in one place, to help funders and farmers routinely analyze the farmers performance and manage loans accordingly. Second, it enables farmers to quickly sift their data, analyze it for insights to improve their productivity and profitability.