Providing innovative insurance solutions to farmers across Africa
Location: Kenya, Nairobi County, Nairobi
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $500K
Founded date: 2009
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | AHL Ventur... | ahlventure... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 01.01.2014 | - | $500K | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.01.2025 | Kenya's Farmers Have Lots of Digital Tools to Help Boost Productivity - How They Can Be Made More Effective | Digital agriculture is often hailed as an almost magical trigger for promoting successful farming, even among smallholder farmers in the developing world. Its proponents argue that using digital tools to, for instance, generate records and ... |
| 02.10.2023 | Can Web3-enabled tokens drive more smallholders in Kenya to adopt regenerative ag practices? | Timothy Asiimwe is the innovation project manager at Mercy Corps Ventures, an active seed- and early-stage investor in emerging markets. The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those ... |
| 21.04.2022 | Blockchain-powered insurance: Meet the decentralised insurance protocol, Etherisc, insuring Kenyan farms against bad climate | Share this article: The concept of decentralised insurance became a theoretical possibility with the emergence of decentralised finance (DeFi). Etherisc is bringing this concept to life, helping African farmers insure their crops against ba... |
| 27.07.2020 | How Apollo Agriculture is solving small-scale farmers’ credit problem in Kenya | Share this article: Around the world, most farmers have suffered different sets of challenges in scaling and growing their farms. Although lending and crowdfunding platforms have popped up over the past years, it’s still very difficult for ... |
| 05.07.2019 | Eight Kenyan fintech startups to keep an eye on | With the 2007 launch of mobile-money transfer service M-Pesa by Vodacom for Safaricom, Kenya has led the world in mobile money. Inspired by this revolutionary fintech solution — which is used by 30 million users in 10 countries — a crop of... |
| 05.07.2019 | Eight Kenyan fintech startups to keep an eye on | With the 2007 launch of mobile-money transfer service M-Pesa by Vodacom for Safaricom, Kenya has led the world in mobile money. Inspired by this revolutionary fintech solution — which is used by 30 million users in 10 countries — a crop of ... |
| 18.06.2019 | Sub-Sahara Africa is top market for those that made Inclusive Fintech 50 list | Sub-Sahara Africa is the favoured region for top fintech companies aimed at improving financial inclusion to operate in, if the names of those listed as part of the Inclusive Fintech 50 initiative is anything to go by. The initiative — run... |
| 18.06.2019 | Sub-Sahara Africa is top market for those that made Inclusive Fintech 50 list | Sub-Sahara Africa is the favoured region for top fintech companies aimed at improving financial inclusion to operate in, if the names of those listed as part of the Inclusive Fintech 50 initiative is anything to go by. The initiative — run ... |
| 17.06.2019 | Winners of Inclusive Fintech 50 | MetLife Foundation and Visa, with partners Accion and IFC, launch inaugural list to help fintech companies attract capital and resources to benefit the 3 billion financially underserved people globally. MetLife Foundation and Visa with glob... |
| 14.02.2018 | African Agtech Market Map: 99 Technologies Changing the Future of Agriculture in Africa | Editor’s Note: Lina Belmaachi is cofounder of The Seed Project, a non-profit think tank. The team spent time on-the-ground in Africa in order to do a diagnosis and identify pain points across the agricultural value chain before heading to w... |