32 Agritech Startups Disrupting the Agricultural Landscape in Africa

In Summary

• More than $1.56 billion was raised across 700+ deals from 400+ active AgTech Startups between 2014 to 2024.
• Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa dominate the Agritech sector in Africa.
• Agriculture contributes 30–40% of Africa’s GDP and is the source of livelihood for more than 50% of its population.
• Here is the most comprehensive list of Afritech Startups in Africa in 2025.

Deep Dive!!

Within the last decade, the Agricultural sector in Africa has experienced significant growth due to its adoption of innovative technologies to enhance sustainability, production, and markets. Dating back to pre-colonial history, Africa has been a leading agricultural powerhouse due to the presence of vast arable farmlands and diverse agricultural ecosystems.

According to the Agtech 2024/2025 report, more than $1.56 billion was raised across 700+ deals from 400+ active AgTech Startups between 2014 to 2024. Also, the sector now amounts to 30–40% of Africa’s GDP. The significant growth was attributed to innovative technologies adopted by stakeholders in the sector.

Agritech startups in Africa are embracing cutting-edge technologies such as drones, sensors, and satellite imaging to monitor crop health and soil conditions. Also, through technology, they are revolutionizing supply chains by connecting farmers directly to input suppliers. By streamlining the value chain, these startups improve farmers’ income and deliver fresh produce to consumers more efficiently.

Another area that has been greatly improved within the Agritech space is mobile penetration in Africa, which has allowed startups to develop platforms that provide farmers with weather forecasts, market prices, and farming tips. These services are accessible via SMS or mobile apps, empowering even farmers in remote areas. There are also technological solutions that are addressing storage and logistics challenges.

Below, we have highlighted 24 Agritech Startups disrupting the agricultural landscape in Africa in 2025. Check them out!

32 Agritech Startups Disrupting the Agricultural Landscape in Africa 2025

Note: The list is in no particuar order.

1. RoboCare [Tunisia]: This is an Agritech startup from Tunisia that helps detect plant diseases early in greenhouses using high-tech imaging and artificial intelligence (AI). Their solutions, Crop-Care and Toma-Care, can spot stressed plants even before pests show up – thereby making infections easier to control. They use special cameras that capture signals from plants in the near-infrared range to tell healthy plants apart from stressed ones. RoboCare also looks at recent images from drones, planes, and satellites and uses AI to figure out if there are any nutrient problems, diseases, pests, or weeds in the crops.
2. AkoFresh [Ghana]: This Agritech startup from Ghana helps small-scale farmers prevent their crops from spoiling after harvest. They use solar-powered cold storage technology to keep fruits and vegetables fresh for up to 21 days, which is a big deal for farmers in rural areas who often struggle with crops going bad too quickly. This technology includes special cold room panels, solar panels, sensors, a compressor, and an air cooler, all working together in a smart solar-powered cool box.
3. AgriPredict [Zambia]: Founded in Lusaka, Zambia, AgriPredict is making big changes in agriculture. They use artificial intelligence and data science to give farmers the important information they need. This includes spotting diseases, predicting pest attacks, and knowing about the weather. Their goal is to make sure all farmers can easily get the help they need to succeed and do well. They provide services that are personalized to each farmer, making sure they have the support to not just get by, but to do great. Their main product is a smart platform that uses advanced analytics. It collects and looks at lots of data like weather patterns, soil conditions, how crops have done in the past, and market trends.
4. Apollo Agriculture [Kenya]: They aim to help small farmers in rural Africa succeed. They offer a package of services to farmers to help them improve their farms and make more money. This package includes things like getting loans, getting seeds and fertilizers, getting advice tailored to their farm, getting insurance, and finding markets to sell their crops. Farmers apply for these services, and if they're approved, Apollo Agriculture gives them a voucher to use at local stores to get what they need. Then, Apollo Agriculture pays for these items. Farmers pay back the cost of the services after they sell their crops at harvest time.
5. Aerobotics [South Africa]: They are making a big impact on agriculture and forestry in Africa. They use high-tech methods like aerial imagery and data analysis to make farming and forestry better. By using drones and smart computer programs, Aerobotics helps farmers and foresters take care of their plants more effectively. Their main products are drone surveys and data analysis platforms. These tools work together to give farmers important information about their crops, like spotting issues that could affect how much they produce. By providing precise and up-to-date data, Aerobotics is helping farmers make smart choices about things like watering and fertilizing their crops.
6. Livestock Wealth [South Africa]: They are changing how the livestock industry works. They're introducing a new idea called crowd-farming, which lets people invest in livestock without actually owning or managing the animals themselves. Their main product is a crowd-farming platform where investors can buy shares in herds of cattle, goats, or sheep. Livestock Wealth then partners with local farmers who take care of the animals, while investors can keep track of how their animals are doing through the platform.
7. Nambu [South Africa]: This AgriTech startup from Grahamstown is using innovative methods for eco-friendly animal feed. They use Black Soldier Fly larvae, also known as BSFL, to turn food waste into nutritious feed for animals like pigs, fish, and chickens. Here's how it works: They feed food and organic waste to the BSFL larvae. Once the larvae are separated from their food, Nambu can sell them directly to local farmers. They also have the option to process the larvae into dried form or meals for the wider feed industry.
8. Thrive Agric [Nigeria]: Their aim is to help farmers connect with finance, top-notch markets, and data. They use technology and business savvy to make sure everyone can play a part in farming and ensure there's enough food for everyone. Thrive Agric gets money from big investors, and then they use that money to help farmers. They provide farmers with good-quality materials, expert advice, automated processes, and machinery to help them grow crops better. At the end of each farming cycle, both the investors and the farmers get decent returns on their investment.
9. Hello Tractor [Kenya]: As the name implies, they make it easier for smallholder farmers in Africa to access farming machinery, especially tractors. They connect farmers who need tractors with owners who are willing to lease out their equipment. Access to tractors is a big challenge for many small farmers in Africa, but Hello Tractor is helping them solve this problem. Their app works like Uber but for tractors, matching farmers who need tractors with owners who have them available for lease.
10. Complete Farmer [Ghana]: This AgriTech startup acts as a crowd-farming platform, allowing people to invest in sustainable farms across Africa. Customers can become "crowd farmers" by investing in these farms and monitoring their progress remotely. They also provide valuable data and information on how to achieve healthy yields and the best farming practices, using a data-driven approach to improve farming scientifically. The startup aims to be a comprehensive platform for everyone involved in the agricultural value chain, including food growers, buyers, and enthusiasts. Their vision is to create a world where everyone can come together to eat by collaborating and working together.
11. iProcure [Kenya]: iProcure is focused on improving the agricultural supply chain in Africa. They have developed a digital infrastructure that offers business intelligence and data-driven stock management for small-scale farmers. This helps farmers access markets more easily and avoid losses after harvesting due to supply chain problems. Farmers can purchase all the supplies they need through mobile vouchers on the platform. Additionally, the platform allows users to manage their inventory and point-of-sale activities.
12. BioBuu [Tanzania]: BioBuu is dedicated to helping farmers grow healthier and safer crops while reducing waste and dependence on harmful chemicals. They offer organic-based alternatives that are safe, affordable, and sustainable for farmers. One of BioBuu's innovative practices is a recycling system that uses black soldier flies to transform food and organic waste into high-protein feeds for fish and chickens, as well as compost for plants.
13. Victory Farms [Kenya]: Victory Farms is transforming white meat production in East Africa. As one of the largest fish farms in the region, the company is using technology to accelerate its growth while delivering top-quality products to customers. Victory Farms runs a fully integrated platform that manages every step of the production process, from farming to processing, sales, and distribution. They also have an efficient cold-chain system in place to ensure that their products reach customers and off-takers in perfect condition.
14. Agriprotein [South Africa]: They smartly deal with organic waste. Every day, they take 100 tonnes of organic waste that would normally go to landfills and turn it into something useful. They produce over 2,000 tonnes of a product called MagMeal every year. They use insects and technology to change the organic waste into valuable stuff. This includes alternative protein for animal feed, natural oil for more animal feed, and a soil enhancer. First, they collect the waste from landfills and process it into a paste. Then, they put black soldier flies in special cages where they can lay eggs on the paste. When the eggs hatch, the larvae eat the organic waste and grow.
15. Pula Advisors [Kenya]: Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Kenya, Pula Advisors is an agricultural insurance and tech company that designs and delivers innovative agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers endure yield risks, improve their farming practices, and bolster their incomes over time. Pula Advisors is bundling agricultural inputs with insurance and agronomic advisory services, such as provision of inputs, farm monitoring, data, analytics and advisory services to cover the risk to smallholder farmers, while also increasing farm yield and climate resilience.
16. EzyAgric [Uganda]: Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Uganda, EzyAgric provides a value chain digitization platform designed to increase crop yield. The company’s platform provides farmers with easy access to agro-inputs, credit financing, e-extension and advisory services as well as market linkages. It aggregates orders from customers to achieve economies of scale in the purchase of inputs and sale of produce, using its own warehousing and logistics operations to better manage seasonal demand for customers. EzyAgric’s products and services include farming data and analytics, farm management and solutions, inputs and equipment, lending including buy now, pay later, and credit scoring through partnerships.
17. Oko Finance [Mali]: Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mali, Oko Finance is a provider of mobile-centric micro-insurance products, offering crop insurance at affordable prices and instant claims processing. The company, which operates in Mali, Uganda and Cote d’Ivoire, offers automated insurance using satellite imagery and mobile payments for farmers whose fields are negatively affected by weather patterns, mainly droughts and floods. It partners with the most advanced weather information providers to obtain hyper-local data that can be used to define the risk with high precision and optimize the premium price, as well as automate the claim validation process by analysis of historical data.
18. Emata [Uganda]: Founded in 2021, Emata is a digital lending provider from Uganda serving smallholder farmers. The company offers affordable digital loans that are specifically designed to empower farmers to invest in their farms and increase their revenue, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced risk analytics to offer tailored loans that farmers can afford. Leveraging technology and digital platforms, Emata says it is able to automate the entire loan process, from data collection and credit scoring, to loan disbursement, and offer loans as small as UGX 60 000 (about US$15). Since its founding, Emata has partnered with 43 agricultural organizations and reached 38,000 dairy, coffee, maize, and oilseed farmers. The company has provided loans amounting to UGX 3 billion (US$810,000) to 2,500 small-scale farmers. These loans have resulted in an average 25% increase in farmers’ productivity for dairy farmers, Emata claims.
19. AgroCenta [Ghana]: Ghanaian AgriTech startup AgroCenta is an online sales platform started in 2015 by Michael Ocansey and Francis Obirikorang. It connects smallholder farmers directly to an online market to sell their commodities. The startup also offers an on-demand logistics solution (TruckR), an information platform (AgroInfo) and a mobile money offering (AgroPay). The startup’s co-founder Ocansey revealed at the time that he and Obirikorang were hoping to raise $ 750,000 in funding in a new seed round, and had raised about a third of this from a US investor.
20. Farmcrowdy [Nigeria]: The Nigerian AgriTech platform Farmcrowdy has grown to help 7000 farmers on farmland across nine states in Nigeria to help fund the purchase of inputs such as seed, fertilizer and day-old chicks. The startup was the only African company selected to join the Techstars Atlanta accelerator programme in 2018. While in Atlanta, the startup caught the interest of a lot of investors in the US, eventually raising a $1 million round from Techstars, Cox Ventures and Social Capital. Farmcrowdy also recently launched Agricsquare, an information hub that deals with everything related to agriculture from jobs, news, grants and consulting.
21. CowTribe [Ghana]: The startup provides an on-demand mobile (USSD-based) subscription service which connects livestock farmers with veterinarians, and helps deliver animal vaccines and other livestock healthcare services to farmers. The startup won many awards, including, the Seedstars Accra. It was also selected as one of four regional finalists of the inaugural MEST Africa Challenge. In 2016, the company was a runner-up at the British Council’s Duapa Challenge as well as one of the finalists at the 2016 edition of Pitch AgriHack.
22. SwiftVEE [South Africa]: SwiftVEE, is an online platform that connects livestock agencies to a network of buyers and sellers. Earlier this year the Cape Town-based startup was selected by Google as one of 12 startups for the tech giant’s first Launchpad Africa Accelerator. The company was started in 2016 by Russel Luck, who is a technology lawyer, and Andrew Meyer, a farmer. SwiftVEE meanwhile is in search of its first Series-A investment. It follows initial seed funding the startup first received last year from the Technology Innovation Agency’s (TIA) seed funding programme – via the mLab’s incubator programme – and subsequently from an angel investor.
23. Selina Wamucii [Kenya]: This Nairobi-based B2B sourcing platform — founded in 2015 by Karuiki Gaita and CEO John Oroko — claims that through its USSD platform, it can “shorten and transform the agriculture supply chain” and in doing so help smallholder farmers and buyers to cut costs. The platform effectively digitizes the entire supply chain without requiring farmers to have access to the internet or smartphones. Selina Wamucii said it planned to use a $ 100,000 grant it received from a Dubai-based innovation and partnership programme to improve its mobile platform, recruit 2000 more farmers and enter European markets (see this story). The startup intends to further develop its platform by adding Swahili and two other dialects. He said although Selina Wamucii has not secured any other investment to date, it was looking to expand its operations to the “European market mainly”.
24. GRACI [Ivory Coast]: The Ivorian startup GRACI (Grace Agricultural Ivory Coast), won the Special OCP Agritech in 2018. The company was founded in 2015 in Abidjan by Brou Kouame Yves Laurent. It offers a program of production, certification, and dissemination of improved seeds for the rice sector. Through this innovative solution, production yields improved from 2 to 3 tons of rice/ hectare to 6 to 7 tons/hectare. This has allowed the Ivorian farmers to increase their income. With the support from OCP Agritech, this startup will definitely be going places as rice remains one of the most consumed products in Africa and Asia.
25. Wenaklabs [Chad]: Wenaklabs is one of Chad’s first hubs. The hub has already begun making a significant impact – it worked with UNICEF to make computers out of e-waste and jerrycans. The computers are helping children connect to the internet for the very first time, an example of what’s possible even in the midst of extremely difficult situations. Wenaklabs is also working on some other interesting projects. One of them is Hiratech which enables farmers to collect information such as temperature, soil moisture, rainfall, etc. This startup is highly innovative and should equally be watched this 2019.
26. Save Our Agriculture [Cameroon]: The young startup founded by Flavien Kouatcha and Leslie Tipa, was among the 11 early-stage startups to compete at the first ever Seedstars World event in Cameroon. Save Our Agriculture specializes in Aquaponics, a field of modern agriculture that produces vegetables and fish without chemical fertilizers. The startup was the Cameroon winner of the Pierre Castel Prize 2018. In addition to the production of vegetables and fish without chemical fertilizers, the Cameroonian startup created in 2015, also designs aquaponic kits for home aquaponics.
27. AGRO-HUB [Cameroon]: Since its inception, AGRO-HUB has strived to break the cycle of poverty entrapping farmers living in Cameroon’s rural agricultural communities. AGRO-HUB is a social enterprise – a farmers’ cooperative – set up to combat poverty among rural farmers in Cameroon by improving farmers’ household incomes through agricultural market development. With innovative use of web and mobile technology, the startup works to provide these farmers with a much-needed community, along with markets to sell their products. The startup equally sources agricultural products directly from farmers and sells them directly to the general public through AGRO-MART “farmers’ supermarket” facilities or supplies them directly to Hotels, Restaurants, Boarding Schools, other retailers, and exporters.
28. Farmerline [Ghana]: Provider of weather information and content marketing services. The platform provides services of mass messaging, survey collection, and content development for information dissemination to agriculture-related businesses. It also provides project management services for agribusinesses and government agencies. It was founded in 2003 and has raised a total of $14.4 million in seed funding.
29. Esoko [Ghana]: Founded in 2007, Esoko is a developer of digital multi-platform apps for connecting to farmers. It offers a platform for businesses, projects, NGOs, and governments to reach farmers. It provides farm information, agricultural content, on-the-ground deployment services, monitoring, and advisory services. The platforms include marketing apps for sending bulk SMS and surveys and conducting polls, field tracking modules for monitoring sourced goods, tracking inventory, data collection, project tracking, report generation, and more. It has raised $2.75 million in seed funding.
30. Twiga Foods [Kenya]: Twiga Foods is an e-commerce platform that uses technology to deliver high-quality foods, products and retail services across Africa. The Kenya-headquartered AgriTech startup collaborates with 140,000 vendors and more than 1,000 farmers and has a huge workforce across 12 cities. Founded in 2014 by Grant Brooke and Peter Njonjo, the company focuses on offering affordable prices and fast logistics. Having started out with a goal of exporting bananas from Kenya, it has since expanded its operations to include a broader range of produce and services.
31. Agrix Tech [Cameroon]: Established in 2018 and co-founded by Adamou Nchange Kouotou, Cameroon-based startup Agrix Tech helps farmers get technical knowledge to assist them in implementing a better crop disease control plan on their farms. The app then uses AI to automate business plans for farmers, which helps them access loans from different financial institutions. Agrix Tech's business involves three elements: Firstly, Cameroonian farmers can download the app and get resources to help them adopt a better crop disease management strategy for their farm and therefore become more productive. The app lets farmers scan unhealthy crops by recording a video, which is then analyzed using machine-learning techniques, and then farmers are given treatment recommendations.
32. Komaza [Kenya]: Founded in 2006, Komaza partners with smallholder farmers to develop sustainable forestry operations, aiming to make small-scale farmers the future of African forestry. The mission of the AgriTech startup is to restore the productivity of degraded lands, capture carbon, and revitalize landscapes to prevent global ecosystem collapse. Komaza works with smallholder farmers to grow trees on underutilized land, provides seedlings that can grow in challenging conditions, provides training, technical expertise, and inputs to help farmers grow trees, manages the harvest, processing, and sales of wood products, and pays farmers above-market prices for their wood.