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| 04.08.2025 | Ghana Launches 24-hour Economy with Emphasis on Digital Skills | The government of Ghana officially launched its long-anticipated 24-hour economy policy on July 2, with the aim of boosting productivity, reducing unemployment, and transforming key sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, and... |
| 12.07.2025 | Ghana's Farming Revolution: Complete Farmer Lands Key EU Investment | Ghanaian agritech Complete Farmer secured $2.5M from the EU's AgriFI. This substantial investment powers critical infrastructure: six rural fulfillment centers across northern Ghana. These hubs will revolutionize aggregation, quality contro... |
| 09.07.2025 | To support expansion, Ghana’s Complete Farmer raises $2.5 M from EU funded AgriFI facility | The European Union-funded AgriFI facility has contributed US $2.5 million to Ghana’s Complete Farmer, an end-to-end digital agricultural marketplace that links African farmers and international industries to competitive markets, resources, ... |
| 09.07.2025 | Complete Farmer, a Ghana-based agritech company Raises $2.5 Million | Ghana-based agritech company Complete Farmer has secured approximately €2.2 million (equivalent to around $2.5 million) from the European Union–funded AgriFI initiative, administered through the EDFI Management Company. The funding will sup... |
| 30.06.2025 | European Union-Funded AgriFI Invests € 2.2M in Complete Farmer to Drive Ghana’s Innovation in Agritech | Share this:
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| 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... |
| 16.09.2024 | Fido and SUSI Partners: Two Titans of Transformation in Emerging Markets | In the world of finance and renewable energy, two stories stand out. Fido, a digital financial services platform from Ghana, has just secured $30 million in funding. Meanwhile, SUSI Partners, a Swiss investment manager, is making waves in V... |
| 16.09.2024 | Fido, a digital financial services platform, has secured $30 million in funding | Fido, a Ghanaian digital financial services platform, secured $30 million in debt and equity capital.
The equity portion of the capital ($20 million) comes from BlueOrchard-managed InsuResilience Investment Fund Private Equity II (IIF II) a... |
| 15.10.2023 | Complete Farmer, an agri-tech startup in Ghana, has raised $10.4 million in pre-Series A funding | Complete Farmer, a comprehensive digital agricultural marketplace based in Ghana has just closed a US$10.4 million pre-Series A funding round to fuel its growth. The platform links African farmers and global companies to competitive marketp... |
| 04.10.2023 | Data snapshot: Investment capital shifts to growth stage startups in African agrifoodtech ecosystem | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder.
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| 28.09.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Paine Schwartz launches $1.7bn agrifood fund, Cricket One unveils new plant, Infarm ‘declared bankrupt’ | Agrifood’s biggest news this week is PE firm Paine Schwartz closing its $1.7 billion food- and agribusiness-focused fund. Fund VI is “exclusively focused on sustainable investments” in food and agribusiness, and the firm has already deploye... |
| 25.09.2023 | To support expansion plans, agri-tech startup Complete Farmer raised $10.4 M Pre-Series A funding | A pre-Series A funding round worth US $10.4 million has been raised by Ghana’s Complete Farmer, an end-to-end digital agricultural marketplace that connects African farmers and international industries to competitive markets, resources, dat... |
| 22.09.2023 | Complete Farmer Raises USD 10M in Equity and Debt Funding | Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian digital marketplace that brings together African farmers and international buyers to create an efficient agricultural value chain in West Africa, raised a total of USD 10 million in equity and debt Pre-series A f... |
| 20.09.2023 | Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian agritech startup, gets $10.4 million pre-Series A to streamline operations | Complete Farmer, a Ghanaian agritech startup, has announced that it has obtained a $10.4 million pre-Series A funding round — $7m in equity and $3.4m in debt — to streamline its operations.
The Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) and A... |
| 20.09.2023 | Ghana’s Complete Farmer, which connects farmers to global food buyers, raises $10.4M | Africa’s agricultural sector has a significant social and economic impact, per McKinsey. The percentage of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa exceeds 60%, while agriculture accounts for approximately 23% of the region’s gross domesti... |
| 28.02.2022 | In Ghana’s agrifoodtech sector, investors and entrepreneurs share mutual skepticism | Desmond Koney knew the fundraising journey for his startup was going to be tough. His company, Complete Farmer, operates an agribusiness marketplace for Ghana’s under-financed and under-resourced farmers. Financing for agrifoodtech ventures... |
| 16.11.2021 | Complete Farmer looks to the crowd to give African smallholders a boost | When Desmond Koney took over the family pineapple farm after his father passed, his plans to grow and scale the business failed – dismally. That failure ignited the idea behind Complete Farmer.
Koney, a Ghanaian mechanical engineer, experie... |
| 15.09.2021 | Tazapay Partners with B2B Marketplaces to Further Enable International Trade with Escrow Payments | SINGAPORE, Sept. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Tazapay, a digital escrow service for cross-border trade, today announces it is launching Escrow-as-a-Service in partnership with eight global business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces to further ease... |
| 13.03.2020 | Meet the 10 African startups selected for the Westerwelle Young Founders Programme | *Correction (13 March 2020): We incorrectly stated that 12 African startups were selected for the Westerwelle Young Founders Programme, when in fact it was 10. As such, we have amended the article and headline.
Ten African entrepreneurs se... |
| 13.03.2020 | Meet the 10 African startups selected for the Westerwelle Young Founders Programme | *Correction (13 March 2020): We incorrectly stated that 12 African startups were selected for the Westerwelle Young Founders Programme, when in fact it was 10. As such, we have amended the article and headline.
Ten African entrepreneurs sel... |
| 05.11.2019 | Big names are among 41 African startups in Lisbon this week for Web Summit | UPDATE (8 November): Subsequent to the publication of this story, Swiss medtech startup Nutrix was announced as Web Summit’s Pitch winner.
Forty-one startups from 13 African countries are in Lisbon this week to attend Web Summit, which kick... |
| 05.11.2019 | Big names are among 41 African startups in Lisbon this week for Web Summit | UPDATE (8 November): Subsequent to the publication of this story, Swiss medtech startup Nutrix was announced as Web Summit’s Pitch winner.
Forty-one startups from 13 African countries are in Lisbon this week to attend Web Summit, which kic... |
| 10.09.2019 | Village Capital selects nine startups for its Africa Agriculture 2019 programme | US venture capital firm Village Capital has selected nine startups from seven countries across the continent for its Africa Agriculture 2019 programme.
The programme, which Village Capital runs with the support of family office Ceniarth an... |
| 10.09.2019 | Village Capital selects nine startups for its Africa Agriculture 2019 programme | US venture capital firm Village Capital has selected nine startups from seven countries across the continent for its Africa Agriculture 2019 programme.
The programme, which Village Capital runs with the support of family office Ceniarth and... |
| 09.09.2019 | Village Capital Selects 9 Startups for Agriculture Africa Accelerator 2019 | Nine Agritech startups have been selected for Village Capital’s Agriculture Africa Accelerator program. Two winners will stand the chance of winning $50000 each, at the end of the accelerator program.
Village Capital launched its Africa Agr... |
| 05.07.2019 | MEST Africa appoints Ashwin Ravinchandran as new head | MEST Africa has announced the appointment of Ashwin Ravinchandran as its new managing director.
Ravichandran (pictured above) takes over from Aaron Fu whose last day at MEST was on June 30.
In a statement on Wednesday (3 July), the pan-Af... |
| 05.07.2019 | Five African startups selected for Dubai Chamber of Commerce programme | The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has selected five African tech startups to participate in its three-month Global Business Forum (GBF) mentorship programme.
The GBF Mentorship Programme aims to help dynamic startups in both Africa... |
| 05.07.2019 | Five African startups selected for Dubai Chamber of Commerce programme | The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has selected five African tech startups to participate in its three-month Global Business Forum (GBF) mentorship programme.
The GBF Mentorship Programme aims to help dynamic startups in both Afric... |
| 05.07.2019 | MEST Africa appoints Ashwin Ravinchandran as new head | MEST Africa has announced the appointment of Ashwin Ravinchandran as its new managing director.
Ravichandran (pictured above) takes over from Aaron Fu whose last day at MEST was on June 30.
In a statement on Wednesday (3 July), the pan-Afri... |
| 27.06.2019 | African startups announced to join Dubai mentorship program | Share this:
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| 05.04.2019 | A closer look at the agrifood startup ecosystem in Ghana and West Africa | Editor’s Note: Maciej Bulanda is the partnerships & communications manager at SmartHectar Innovations, a German innovation hub focused on agrifood and water. Together with entrepreneurship mentoring organization enpact, SmartHectar laun... |
| 25.01.2019 | Meet the 10 startups selected to pitch at the Africa Startup Summit in Kigali | Having received over 100 applications, the organisers of the inaugural Africa Startup Summit yesterday announced the 10 startups that have been selected to pitch at the event which takes place on 14 and 15 February in Kigali, Rwanda.
The s... |
| 25.01.2019 | Meet the 10 startups selected to pitch at the Africa Startup Summit in Kigali | Having received over 100 applications, the organisers of the inaugural Africa Startup Summit yesterday announced the 10 startups that have been selected to pitch at the event which takes place on 14 and 15 February in Kigali, Rwanda.
The su... |
| 18.01.2019 | 10 startups selected to Pitch Live at Africa Startup Summit | Share this:
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| 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 | 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... |
| 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 ... |
| 25.10.2018 | Here are the DEMO Africa 2018 winners | Startup launchpad DEMO Africa has selected five startups that will travel to Silicon Valley as part of the Lions Africa Innovation Tour next year.
The five startups were selected and announced last week Friday (19 October) at the last day ... |
| 25.10.2018 | Here are the DEMO Africa 2018 winners | Startup launchpad DEMO Africa has selected five startups that will travel to Silicon Valley as part of the Lions Africa Innovation Tour next year.
The five startups were selected and announced last week Friday (19 October) at the last day o... |
| 22.08.2018 | DEMO Africa announces top 30 finalists set to pitch at Casablanca conference | Startup launchpad DEMO Africa has announced the top 30 finalists that will pitch at its seventh annual conference in Casablanca, Morocco this October.
The announcement follows an innovation tour earlier this year that saw the DEMO Africa t... |
| 22.08.2018 | DEMO Africa announces top 30 finalists set to pitch at Casablanca conference | Startup launchpad DEMO Africa has announced the top 30 finalists that will pitch at its seventh annual conference in Casablanca, Morocco this October.
The announcement follows an innovation tour earlier this year that saw the DEMO Africa te... |
| 21.08.2018 | Meet the 30 startups shortlisted for the 2018 edition of Demo Africa in Casablanca | Share this article:
Following a few months of innovation roadshows, city tours and virtual adjudication, the management team of DEMO Africa today announced the selection of the 30 finalist startups for the 2018 edition of the annual confere... |
| 12.07.2018 | Meet the three winners of DEMO Africa’s innovation tour Ivory Coast pitch event | Three companies — EtuDesk, Maurice Communication Marketing, and WeFlyAgri — have come out tops as winners at DEMO Africa’s last leg of a West African innovation tour in Ivory Coast earlier this week.
The three will now face off with other s... |
| 12.07.2018 | Meet the three winners of DEMO Africa’s innovation tour Ivory Coast pitch event | Three companies — EtuDesk, Maurice Communication Marketing, and WeFlyAgri — have come out tops as winners at DEMO Africa’s last leg of a West African innovation tour in Ivory Coast earlier this week.
The three will now face off with other ... |
| 11.07.2018 | Here are the three winners of DEMO Africa’s Accra event | Three Ghanaian startups, CompleteFarmer, Develess, and RedBird, have been selected as winners of the Accra leg of the Demo Africa innovation tour.
The three out-pitched six other companies at the Accra event, held last Friday (6 July), for ... |
| 11.07.2018 | Here are the three winners of DEMO Africa’s Accra event | Three Ghanaian startups, CompleteFarmer, Develess, and RedBird, have been selected as winners of the Accra leg of the Demo Africa innovation tour.
The three out-pitched six other companies at the Accra event, held last Friday (6 July), for... |
| - | Village Capital Selects 9 Startups for Agriculture Africa Accelerator 2019 | Nine Agritech startups have been selected for Village Capital’s Agriculture Africa Accelerator program. Two winners will stand the chance of winning $50000 each, at the end of the accelerator program.
Village Capital launched its Africa Agr... |
| - | Complete Farmer | “We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...” |
