social enterprise building lastmile Marketplace platform for smallholder farmers and agri-vendors to access right agriculture inputs, services and information
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +254 726 110861
Total raised: $4.8M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Founders F... | foundersfa... |
| - | Gray Matte... | graymatter... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 25.01.2024 | Seed | $3.7M | - |
| 08.12.2021 | - | $1.1M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.12.2024 | The first close of the Seedstars Africa VC fund at $42 M | A US $42 million first close has been reached by Seedstars Africa Ventures I, a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage, scalable businesses in Africa. Africa Ventures Seedstars In collaboration with Seedstars, a global organizatio... |
| 06.12.2024 | Seedstars Africa Ventures secures $42 million to scale early-stage African startups | Seedstars Africa Ventures I, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments in scalable African startups, has announced a first close of $42 million. Key institutional investors, including the African Development Bank (AfDB), EIB... |
| 29.01.2024 | Weekly Economic Index: The Junta cuts ties with Ecowas, NIN in the diaspora, and Netflix’s largest Q4 ever | Here are three big stories from Africa’s business and policy landscape you (probably) didn’t miss but should keep in mind this week: Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso cut ties with ECOWAS Claiming that ECOWAS has betrayed its members and people und... |
| 25.01.2024 | Agri-tech startup Shamba Pride raised $3.7 M Pre-Series A Debt & Equity funding | Pre-Series A debt and equity funding totalling US $3.7 million has been raised by Kenyan agri-tech startup Shamba Pride in order to support the company’s growth. Through technology-driven “DigiShops,” Shamba Pride is a one-stop online-to-of... |
| 21.01.2024 | Kenyan agtech Shamba Pride raises $3.7M to grow its merchant network | Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of 2,70... |
| 05.12.2021 | Shamba Pride, a Kenyan agri-tech startup, has raised $1.1 million in funding | Shamba Pride, a Kenyan agri-tech startup, has raised US$1.1 million in funding from Seedstars Africa Ventures and Gray Matters Capital to assist its countrywide expansion and distribution of its digital solution to more than 1,000 digitaliz... |
| 01.11.2021 | JICA kicks off the 2nd Cohort of NINJA Accelerator in Kenya | Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| - | Shamba Pride, a Kenyan agri-tech startup, has raised $1.1 million in funding | Shamba Pride, a Kenyan agri-tech startup, has raised US$1.1 million in funding from Seedstars Africa Ventures and Gray Matters Capital to assist its countrywide expansion and distribution of its digital solution to more than 1,000 digitaliz... |
| - | Shamba Pride | “Shamba Pride – Revolutionizing Rural Agriculture Commerce Ecosystem for Africa Farmers” |