Agriculture Startups in Africa
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SA Ag: Land reform's slow. Tech's exciting, but impact patchy, reliant on donor $$. Real money's still in commodities, input supply. Local players grumble about big guys' access.
Cummulative Funding
$1B+
Total # of Companies
133
Total Deal Count
328
Total M&A Count
1
Total # of Investors
491
List of Agriculture startups in Africa
Add Startup| Startuparrow_upward | Overviewarrow_upward | Last roundarrow_upward | Total raisedarrow_upward | Founded |
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Twiga Foods is a business-to-business marketplace platform that sources produce directly from farmers and delivers it to urban retailers. | Series C | $ 145,650,000 | 2013 | |
Agriprotein specializes in nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry. | Venture | $ 122,500,000 | 2008 | |
Gro Intelligence is an AI-powered insights company that provides decision-making analytics to the agriculture economies and their participants. | Series B | $ 118,810,000 | 2014 | |
Apollo Agriculture is a technology company based in Nairobi, Kenya that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits. | Debt Financing | $ 69,100,000 | 2016 | |
Thrive Agric is an agricultural technology startup connecting Farmers with Access to Finance, Premium Markets and Data. | Non-equity Assistance | $ 58,485,000 | 2016 | |
Sistema.bio is a hybrid reactor biodigester that transforms the manure of animals into biogas and a potent, natural fertilizer. | Venture | $ 56,450,000 | 2010 | |
Victory Farms is a Kenyan tilapia fish farm intended to provide affordable, accessible and healthy protein to the East African population. | Series A | $ 48,000,000 | 2015 | |
Komaza is making smallholder farmers the future of African forestry | Debt Financing | $ 47,900,000 | 2006 | |
SunCulture is a Kenyan startup that empowers smallholder farmers with solar irrigation | Series B | $ 39,300,000 | 2013 | |
Senwes Limited is focused on providing input products required for maize farming such as finance, equipment and materials. | Funding Round | $ 34,500,000 | 1909 | |
Award-winning, high impact, financially sustainable and highly scalable social enterprise part-owned by farmers we serve. | Debt Financing | $ 24,000,000 | 2012 | |
Complete Farmer is a Ghanian AgTech startup which allows users to own shares in tech-enabled farms | Venture | $ 20,050,000 | 2017 | |
One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow more food and earn more money. | Grant | $ 18,700,000 | 2006 | |
Agricorp is a Nigerian company that provides global exports to clients of ginger sourced in key trading markets in Africa. | Series A | $ 17,800,000 | 2018 | |
The New Forests Company is an Africa-based forestry company with plantations and product base for export markets. | Venture | $ 15,200,000 | 2004 | |
Farmerline is creating lasting profit for farmers everywhere | Seed | $ 15,192,000 | 2012 | |
iProcure is the largest agricultural supply chain platform in rural Africa. | Grant | $ 15,095,000 | 2013 | |
nextProtein produces insect-based protein for animal feed stocks in a quest to accelerate sustainable agriculture and tackle resource scarcity. | Series A | $ 12,840,000 | 2015 | |
Miro Forestry Company is a sustainable forestry and timber startup with plantations in Ghana and Sierra Leone. | Funding Round | $ 12,000,000 | 2010 | |
Overberg Agri is a trusted and established player in the key agricultural regions of the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape. | Private Equity | $ 11,954,646 | 1997 |
Founded
2013
Overview
Twiga Foods is a business-to-business marketplace platform that sources produce directly from farmers and delivers it to urban retailers.
Last round
Series C
Total raised
$ 145,650,000
Employee
51-200
Founded
2008
Overview
Agriprotein specializes in nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry.
Last round
Venture
Total raised
$ 122,500,000
Employee
101-250
Founded
2014
Overview
Gro Intelligence is an AI-powered insights company that provides decision-making analytics to the agriculture economies and their participants.
Last round
Series B
Total raised
$ 118,810,000
Employee
51-200
Founded
2016
Overview
Apollo Agriculture is a technology company based in Nairobi, Kenya that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits.
Last round
Debt Financing
Total raised
$ 69,100,000
Employee
51-200
Founded
2016
Overview
Thrive Agric is an agricultural technology startup connecting Farmers with Access to Finance, Premium Markets and Data.
Last round
Non-equity Assistance
Total raised
$ 58,485,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2010
Overview
Sistema.bio is a hybrid reactor biodigester that transforms the manure of animals into biogas and a potent, natural fertilizer.
Last round
Venture
Total raised
$ 56,450,000
Employee
51-200
Founded
2015
Overview
Victory Farms is a Kenyan tilapia fish farm intended to provide affordable, accessible and healthy protein to the East African population.
Last round
Series A
Total raised
$ 48,000,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2006
Overview
Komaza is making smallholder farmers the future of African forestry
Last round
Debt Financing
Total raised
$ 47,900,000
Employee
101-250
Founded
2013
Overview
SunCulture is a Kenyan startup that empowers smallholder farmers with solar irrigation
Last round
Series B
Total raised
$ 39,300,000
Employee
201-500
Founded
1909
Overview
Senwes Limited is focused on providing input products required for maize farming such as finance, equipment and materials.
Last round
Funding Round
Total raised
$ 34,500,000
Employee
1001-5000
Founded
2012
Overview
Award-winning, high impact, financially sustainable and highly scalable social enterprise part-owned by farmers we serve.
Last round
Debt Financing
Total raised
$ 24,000,000
Employee
501-1000
Founded
2017
Overview
Complete Farmer is a Ghanian AgTech startup which allows users to own shares in tech-enabled farms
Last round
Venture
Total raised
$ 20,050,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2006
Overview
One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow more food and earn more money.
Last round
Grant
Total raised
$ 18,700,000
Employee
5001-10000
Founded
2018
Overview
Agricorp is a Nigerian company that provides global exports to clients of ginger sourced in key trading markets in Africa.
Last round
Series A
Total raised
$ 17,800,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2004
Overview
The New Forests Company is an Africa-based forestry company with plantations and product base for export markets.
Last round
Venture
Total raised
$ 15,200,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2012
Overview
Farmerline is creating lasting profit for farmers everywhere
Last round
Seed
Total raised
$ 15,192,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2013
Overview
iProcure is the largest agricultural supply chain platform in rural Africa.
Last round
Grant
Total raised
$ 15,095,000
Employee
51-200
Founded
2015
Overview
nextProtein produces insect-based protein for animal feed stocks in a quest to accelerate sustainable agriculture and tackle resource scarcity.
Last round
Series A
Total raised
$ 12,840,000
Employee
11-50
Founded
2010
Overview
Miro Forestry Company is a sustainable forestry and timber startup with plantations in Ghana and Sierra Leone.
Last round
Funding Round
Total raised
$ 12,000,000
Employee
501-1,000
Founded
1997
Overview
Overberg Agri is a trusted and established player in the key agricultural regions of the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape.
Last round
Private Equity
Total raised
$ 11,954,646
Employee
101-250