Archives: Start-Up Profiles

Bankly, a Fintech start-up, uses a hybrid model of technology and offline channels to provide the touch points needed to digitalize cash and increase the income of the “underbanked population” in Nigeria. Bankly is a licensed payment service provider and microfinance bank with a focus on serving 53Million underserved Nigerians.

Jabu Logistics is a tech start-up focusing on last mile delivery and food distribution across the southern countries of Africa. Jabu helps shop owners order and source their products through an e-commerce platform, while executing the last mile of distribution, payments, and merchandise for Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands, enabling consumers to purchase fresh […]

Agridata Consulting offers a data management solution to ameliorate agricultural practices. The AI-based SAAS solution aims at making agriculture more sustainable, profitable, and competitive through better data usage. Via the mobile application, farmers obtain agricultural advice, for example, on how to best use fertilizers and pesticides or concerning phytosanitary problems. Further, the offers include reports […]

Upande Limited is a private Kenyan social enterprise, developing affordable digital platforms which track assets including facilities, businesses, farms, utilities and key infrastructure on a daily basis. Smart devices collect live data on the conditions in the field and can be used to trigger changes remotely. This gives customers the power to manage operations from […]

Kwikbasket works to help food producers overcome market barriers. They give commercial kitchens access to fresh produce directly from farms. Thereby they eliminate expensive middlemen and fragmented supply chains though an integrated digital platform that operates as an aggregation model which then provides technical support to improve farmer productivity, financial services such as loans and […]

Hello Tractor is an IoT-driven platform that provides affordable mechanization, input, and commodity marketing services to smallholder farmers. Hello Tractor provides detailed reporting to its customers for them to access innovative pay-as-you-go financing to expand their own fleet.

Phamanimal/ Porcivoire is an online veterinary platform. The solution responds to the shortage of veterinary infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa and aims to democratise and improve animal health by making it more accessible. Via the Phamanimal platform, livestock owners can track the health status of their animals and book veterinary appointments online with animal health professionals. […]

Grow For Me – Micro Aggregator Platform (MAP) is a web and mobile-based commodity financing, aggregation, and trading platform, that aggregates commodities rapidly and affordably into warehouses across the country using technology. It is able to update off-takers on the progress of their commodity aggregation while providing highest quality.

Agro Innova is digitalising Agriculture in Africa through its suits of software tools for smallholder farmers. The company has built “AkokoMarket” an online and offline marketplace that connects smallholder farmer to ready and guaranteed markets, and also to inputs like maize using their mobile phones. Additionally, Agro Innova’s farm management software “FBS Innova” assists smallholder […]

MyVarm is an Agtech Start-up in Egypt specializing in urban agriculture, offering hydroponics micro kits for growing fresh produce. Their innovative app provides technical support, tracks system reading and links users with a supportive community also to sell or exchange their harvest, making it easy to grow their own food and contribute to a more […]

BILANGA Solutions is a digital (Web, Mobile, USSD) and logistics platform connecting farmers to markets to better sell their products, from organic and sustainable agriculture to consumers and food companies that benefit from the best prices and a transparent supply process. The USSD service provides farmers with reliable information on market accessibility, prices, and weather […]

Poultry Farmers Management System (PFMS) developed an App called “Save the Chicken” that enables poultry farmers to detect the 11 most common diseases by uploading a photo of the infected animal. After the disease has been identified, recommendations on how to treat the diseases are given through the digital platform.

Freshbag is a digital procurement platform connecting farmers and Fast-Moving Consumer Good (FMCG) manufacturers to small retail businesses across Cameroon. They help small retail businesses to source inventory from farmers and FMCG manufacturers at the most competitive prices, to get access to working capital credits and to manage their last mile delivery logistics.

agriBORA is an Ag-Tech, FinTech company, that aims to bring farming inputs, financial services, and the output market closer to farmers. They use satellite data to build crop production histories and develop actionable agro-advisories for farmers. They use cutting-edge satellite imagery and blockchain technology to build agri- ledgers and provide credit assessment to enable farmers […]

Afrimash provides an online marketplace for players across the value chain. It offers farmers access to markets, consultancy and a digital platform to conveniently and safely shop quality agricultural inputs from verified suppliers. Afrimash aims at closing the gap in last-mile distribution through her extensive logistics and field agent network in Nigeria and empowering farmers […]

AgroSfer supports and structures reliable and sustainable value chains in African agriculture. To achieve this, our technology platform allows agricultural cooperatives to converge the production efforts of the small-scale farmers (same sustainable production techniques and timing) to deliver more volume and quality to food industry actors. Our marketplace then provides a trusted environment for trading […]