Wefarm is where millions of small scale farmers connect and succeed. Farmers join Wefarm for free and become part of a community where members support one another with knowledge, reviews, and access to inputs and markets.
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $11M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 09.03.2021 | Octopus Ve... | octopusven... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.03.2021 | Series A | $11M | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.01.2023 | African startups we lost in 2022 | Like a see-saw ride, the African tech ecosystem was full of ups and downs in 2022. First, we were ushered into the year by many sky-high projections, but as the months rolled by, these lofty projections were countered by unprecedented event... |
| 22.03.2022 | AgFunder captures increasing, urgent investor demand for agrifoodtech with $60m Fund IV first close | Disclosure: AgFunder is AFN’s parent company. AgFunder, one of the world’s most active investors in foodtech and agtech startups, has increased its assets under management to $160 million – 10x in two years – with the first close of its fou... |
| 16.12.2021 | Agrofy adds $30m to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds. |
| 16.12.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrofy adds $30m in Yara-led Series C round to grow ‘agfintech’ services | Argentine farmer marketplace Agrofy has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The deal takes its total funding to date to $66 million across four rounds. Yara Growth Ventures, the VC arm of Norwegian agrochemicals giant Yara International... |
| 17.11.2021 | Are we on the cusp of a software revolution in farming? | Farming and software might sound like unlikely bedfellows, but a change is on the horizon. Slow moving and deep-rooted value chains in the sector have proven resistant to the adoption of new software, but significant investment in emerging ... |
| 14.10.2021 | Data Snapshot: Asia, LatAm dominate H1 investment into Agribusiness Marketplaces | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. The world’s biggest Agribusiness Marketplaces funding deal during the first half of this year was in In... |
| 08.09.2021 | Digitization seeds opportunities for Eastern Africa's rural farmers | By Everlyne Situma BUNGOMA, Kenya-I have always loved farming. My passion comes from growing up in rural western Kenya, where I braved chilly Saturday mornings to till a small piece of land that my family owned. It was near a stream, and we... |
| 12.03.2021 | Wefarm Raises $11M in Series-A Plus Funding | Wefarm, a provider of an online platform to connect farmers with each other and leverage the power of their community, raised $11M in Series-A plus funding. The round, which brought total funding to $31m, was led by Octopus Ventures with pa... |
| 09.03.2021 | Rabo Frontier Ventures invests in Wefarm | LONDON, United Kingdom – March 9th, 2021 – Rabo Frontier Ventures has invested in Wefarm’s Series-A Plus round, led by Octopus Ventures. The world’s largest platform for small-scale farmers will expand its SMS service into an online platf... |
| 09.03.2021 | Wefarm adds $11M to expand its network for independent farmers, now at 2.5M users | The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. But today comes news of f... |
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