Archives Tag: Agritech
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April 19, 2022
Audiomack Opens office in Nigeria Freemium streaming giant has opened its 55thinternational office in Lagos, Nigeria. The service has seen massive growth as it has inadvertently found a huge audience with Afrobeats audience and content creators because of its freemium model that has allowed both free and premium content delivered to its teeming African … Continue reading Tech News| Opportunities| Deals
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Agritech Focus: All About Transfurd Farms
April 19, 2022
Not everyone who wants to own a farm is able to work the ground and grow crops. Even when they have the funds to set up and operate one, they may be too preoccupied with other concerns to be actively involved on the field. Transfurd Farms exists to help such people obtain plots of land, … Continue reading Agritech Focus: All About Transfurd Farms
Agritech focus: All About Hello Tractor
April 19, 2022
The world continues to apply its very latest technologies to agriculture, to lift production efficiencies in the sector to heights good enough to cater for tomorrow’s challenges. Whether it’s digital technology or blockchain, AI or robotics, there’s always some new tech being dropped into the crop growing sphere to make them yield more products for … Continue reading Agritech focus: All About Hello Tractor
Agritech Focus: All About Growsel
April 19, 2022
Of the $397 billion income generated by Nigeria in 2018, almost a quarter came from its farmlands. Over the course of the year, millions of strong-willed, tough-skinned people cultivated crops and reared livestock in wildly varying conditions, and contributed their lot to the country’s economy. But the vast majority of these farmers are poor small-holder … Continue reading Agritech Focus: All About Growsel
Agritech Focus: All About Farm Cafe
April 19, 2022
For many of us, farms are the last front on which we’re able to have prolonged contact with nature; even if it’s only a remodeled version of nature, fashioned to fill our bellies and clothe our bodies. It has been this way for a long, long while. But over time, it has become more shaped … Continue reading Agritech Focus: All About Farm Cafe
Five Nigerian Startups Made It to Y Combinator’s 2019 Accelerator Program
April 19, 2022
Y Combinator, a US-based startup accelerator of global renown, has announced that a record number of startups from across the world are taking part in its bi-annual program. And of the more than 200 tech-driven ventures which made it to the program’s winter batch this year, five are Nigerian. Since its founding in 2005, Y … Continue reading Five Nigerian Startups Made It to Y Combinator’s 2019 Accelerator Program
Farmcrowdy Closes on Additional Seed Funding of $1 Million
April 19, 2022
Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform which allows Nigerians to invest in agriculture, today announced that it has closed on additional seed funding of $1 million. This follows on from the company’s initial investments of $1 million in 2017. International investors Cox Enterprisesand Techstars, along with local investor Ajayi Solutions have participated in the round … Continue reading Farmcrowdy Closes on Additional Seed Funding of $1 Million
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Nigerian Startups Raised $178 Million from Investors in 2018
April 19, 2022
Nigerian startups continue to attract interest from investors, who are now staking more on them than at any other time in the short history of the country’s relatively young ecosystem. That’s what we can surmise from the Nigeria Startup Funding Report 2018, just recently put out by Techpoint Africa. The report indicates that a total … Continue reading Nigerian Startups Raised $178 Million from Investors in 2018
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Did You Know? Nigeria Is Africa’s Biggest Agritech Market
April 19, 2022
Nigeria hasn’t been on the global agritech scene for long. Until a few years ago, you could probably count the number of tech startups in the country’s agriculture sector on the fingers of one hand. Ecommerce and fintech took the headlines and got a fat portion of investment money. Agritech was only a small part … Continue reading Did You Know? Nigeria Is Africa’s Biggest Agritech Market
Farmcrowdy Launches Mobile App for Agritech in Nigeria
April 19, 2022
Agritech startup marks its first year of operations with the launch of a new mobile app aimed at increasing participation in agriculture by Nigeria’s growing middle-class, diaspora and youth Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform has introduced a new category of funding small-scale farming in Africa by allowing Nigerians to venture and sponsor … Continue reading Farmcrowdy Launches Mobile App for Agritech in Nigeria
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