| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.03.2025 | Bridging the Gap: The Future of Renewable Energy and Agriculture in a Changing World | In a world where climate change looms large, the stakes are high. Renewable energy projects and innovative agricultural practices are not just trends; they are lifelines. The clock is ticking, and the need for effective communication and te... |
| 17.03.2025 | “FEEDING AFRICA’S FUTURE: CAN DRONE-POWERED FARMING OUTSMART CLIMATE CHAOS ?” – Sokale Moses Olumide. | In the dusty fields of northern Nigeria, a farmer squints at the sky not for rain, but for a faint buzz. It’s 2025, and that sound isn’t a swarm of locusts; it’s a drone, swooping low over wilting maize. Africa’s climate is turning on its f... |
| 28.10.2024 | Ag Marketplaces & Fintech startups are the most popular category of African agrifoodtech investment in 2024 | Startups in the Ag Marketplaces & Fintech category have taken the top spot for funding in recent months, overtaking the Midstream Tech category in 2023 and bringing in $65 million, or 41% total investment on the continent so far in 2024... |
| 30.08.2024 | Workpay, a Kenyan cloud-based HR platform, has raised $5 million in Series A funding | Workpay, an Africa-focused cloud-based HR, payroll, and benefits platform, has secured $5 million in a Series A round, with Norrsken22 as the lead investor.
Visa, Y Combinator, Saviu Ventures, Axian, Plug n Play, Verod-Kepple Africa Venture... |
| 12.02.2024 | Apollo Agriculture, a Kenyan agri-fintech startup, has raised $10 million in funding | Apollo Agriculture, an agri-fintech startup that helps small-scale farmers in Africa boost profitability and grow sustainably, has announced a significant funding partnership with Swedfund and ImpactConnect.
With the combined $10 million in... |
| 02.02.2024 | Apollo Agriculture secures $10 million investment from Swedfund and ImpactConnect to fuel rapid expansion and impact | Share this:
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| 01.02.2024 | Kenyan agri-tech startup Apollo Agriculture raised $10 M in Debt funding | Apollo Agriculture, a Kenyan startup that provides small-scale farmers with a commercial farming platform to maximize their profits, has raised $10 million in funding to support its growth.
Apollo Agriculture was established in 2019 to prov... |
| 23.06.2022 | African Agritech funding for the first half of 2022 | The African tech ecosystem has shown impressive growth in the last decade, and many investors want to have a seed in this thriving ecosystem. Last year, Disrupt Africa revealed that 564 tech startups raised over $2 billion in 2021. It’s exc... |
| 25.03.2022 | 12 agtech takeaways from 12 global agriculture experts | Rhishi Pethe is the creator of “Software is Feeding the World,” a free weekly newsletter about tech trends in food and agriculture, and head of product management for Project Mineral at X.
The views expressed in this guest article are the a... |
| 24.03.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: African startups Apollo, Wasoko & ThriveAgric close big-ticket rounds | This has been a watershed week for African agrifoodtech, with a string of startups from the continent closing eight and nine-figure US dollar rounds over the past few days. Kenya’s Wasoko and Apollo Agriculture raised $125 million and $40 m... |
| 22.03.2022 | Kenya-based Agritech startup Apollo Agriculture raises US $40 million in Series B | On March 21, 2022, Kenyan Agritech Apollo raised US $40 million in a Softbank-led round that included the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and CDC. |
| 21.03.2022 | Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC | Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture, which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value... |
| 16.03.2022 | Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part Two) | This post is written in collaboration with CrossBoundary, an investment firm unlocking capital for sustainable growth in underserved global markets.
In January, I wrote about the case for climate tech investing in emerging markets. In addi... |
| 10.03.2022 | East Africa can tackle food insecurity via digitalization, but infrastructure needs funding too: report | Nations in East Africa must prioritize technological innovations and digitalization of food systems in order to tackle perennial food insecurity, according to a new report by London-based market insights provider Briter Bridges.
The report ... |
| 24.01.2022 | In Kenya, Apollo Agriculture is building a pathway to commercial farming | It may sound contrarian, but Benjamin Njenga believes that Africa’s smallholder farmers are among the richest people in society.
“They are the people who own land,” says Njenga, co-founder and chief customer officer at Nairobi and Amsterdam... |
| 19.11.2021 | Agtech innovation will be key to Kenya’s Covid-19 economic recovery | Kenya has emerged as a hotspot for agtech innovation in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than 100 solutions in the market driving growth, productivity, and sustainability in the agrifood value chain.
Companies like Twiga Foods, Apollo Agricult... |
| 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 ... |
| 25.05.2020 | Apollo Agriculture Raises $6M in Funding | Apollo Agriculture, a Nairobi, Kenya-based financing and products platform empowering small-scale farmers to maximize their profits, raised USD $6m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Anthemis Exponential Ventures, with participation ... |
| 21.05.2020 | Kenyan agritech startup Apollo Agriculture raises $6m round | Kenyan agritech startup Apollo Agriculture has raised a $6-million Series-A investment round, led by Anthemis Exponential Ventures.
A number of other investors also took part in the round, including Leaps by Bayer, Flourish Ventures, Sage ... |
| 21.05.2020 | Kenyan agritech startup Apollo Agriculture raises $6m round | Kenyan agritech startup Apollo Agriculture has raised a $6-million Series-A investment round, led by Anthemis Exponential Ventures.
A number of other investors also took part in the round, including Leaps by Bayer, Flourish Ventures, Sage H... |
| 19.05.2020 | Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raises $6M Series A led by Anthemis | Apollo Agriculture believes it can attain profits by helping Kenya’s smallholder farmers maximize theirs.
That’s the mission of the Nairobi-based startup that raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Anthemis.
Founded in 2016, Apollo Ag... |
| 04.09.2019 | Accion Venture Lab to invest at least $4.5m in African fintechs with new fund | Accion Venture Lab, the seed investment initiative of US-based non-profit Accion, has launched a new $23-million fund aimed at fintech startups that focus on financial inclusion.
The seed investment initiative announced the launch of the n... |
| 04.09.2019 | Accion Venture Lab to invest at least $4.5m in African fintechs with new fund | Accion Venture Lab, the seed investment initiative of US-based non-profit Accion, has launched a new $23-million fund aimed at fintech startups that focus on financial inclusion.
The seed investment initiative announced the launch of the ne... |
| 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... |
| 12.12.2018 | M-SCAN emerges winner of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 | M-SCAN, a Ugandan company that specialises in developing portable mobile ultrasound devices (Ultrasonic probes), was crowned as Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most Promising Startup at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, held in Lagos, Nigeri... |
| 12.12.2018 | Uganda’s mScan emerges winner of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 | Share this article:
Yesterday, TechCrunch hosted the second edition of its Startup Battlefield Africa in Lagos Nigeria. The event was characterised by keynote speeches, panel sessions and pitch sessions.
Fifteen startups from across Africa ... |
| 11.12.2018 | Ultra-affordable ultrasound startup M-SCAN wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa | TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa just finished in Lagos, Nigeria, where 15 companies took the stage for the chance of winning the $25,000 equity-free grand prize, a trip for two to TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 and the coveted ... |
| 11.12.2018 | Introducing the startups and agenda for Startup Battlefield Africa | At 9:30 AM local time, we kick off TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa, where 15 companies will take the stage, along with panels from industry investors, Main One, and speakers from Facebook (our partner on the event through the FB Start... |
| 03.09.2018 | SA startup Wala wins $100k Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion | SA fintech Wala has clinched the $100 000 grand prize in the 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prize is run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship... |
| 03.09.2018 | SA startup Wala wins $100k Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion | SA fintech Wala has clinched the $100 000 grand prize in the 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion. The prize is run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship... |
| 08.08.2018 | Here are the finalists of $100k Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship together with the Mastercard Foundation has announced the 10 African startups selected as finalists for this year’s edition of the Zambezi... |
| 08.08.2018 | Here are the finalists of $100k Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship together with the Mastercard Foundation has announced the 10 African startups selected as finalists for this year’s edition of the Zambezi... |
| 25.05.2018 | 10 Agtech Startups for Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa | At a high level, North American farmers — with their thousands of acres of land — face similar challenges to smallholder farmers across Sub-saharan Africa with less than five acres to work with. They all must contend with unpredictable weat... |
| - | Apollo Agriculture | “We help small-scale farmers achieve a more profitable harvest. We empower them to scale successful agribusinesses, foster sustainable livelihoods, and ensure food security for a growing global population.” |
