| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.01.2019 | 30 of the UK’s leading tech scaleups join Upscale 4.0 | Following a record number of exceptional applications last year and an intense judging period, we can now reveal the 30 fast-growing tech companies joining Tech Nation’s Upscale 4.0.
Upscale is based around honest conversations, meetups an... |
| 11.12.2018 | Agritech Startup Spotlight: Wefarm’s 1m+ African Farmer Information Network Extends to Ag Marketplace | “I think, if you look at our vision, you could say that small-scale agriculture is the biggest industry of Earth. It’s a half billion people; it’s the entire world’s supply chain; it’s the origin or commodities markets, and nobody’s really ... |
| 01.11.2018 | Agrifood — the $8 trillion industry that’s worth your salt | Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez Contributor
Esther Delignat-Lavaud Rodriguez is an investor at Oxford Capital, a seed and Series A investor in the U.K.
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| 01.11.2018 | Agrifood – The $8 Trillion Industry That’s Worth Your Salt | Cannabis-infused drinks. Burgers grown in laboratories. Entire meals in bottles. Consumers, retailers and farmers alike are hungry for the next generation of food, and investors are beginning to acquire the taste, too. Early-stage investmen... |
| 01.11.2018 | Five African AgriTech ventures driving the growth of agriculture | Share this:
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| 30.10.2018 | True Ventures has two new funds totaling $635 million to plug into a wide range of startups | True Ventures never seems to be short on exits. Most recently, the 13-year-old venture firm saw early checks to Ring, Blue Bottle Coffee, Duo Security and Evident.io pay off via exits to Amazon, Nestle, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks, respect... |
| 11.10.2018 | Here are the 2018 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards finalists | Tech portal and advisory service AppsAfrica.com has announced the finalists of the fourth AppsAfrica Innovation Awards.
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced in Cape Town on 12 November at the awards party which takes place on... |
| 11.10.2018 | Here are the 2018 AppsAfrica Innovation Awards finalists | Tech portal and advisory service AppsAfrica.com has announced the finalists of the fourth AppsAfrica Innovation Awards.
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced in Cape Town on 12 November at the awards party which takes place o... |
| 10.10.2018 | AppsAfrica Awards Finalists Announced | Share this:
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| 19.03.2018 | Social Enterprise Raises $3m to Digitally Support Smallholder Farmers in Myanmar | **Updated to include comments from Gerdien Velink of Impact Terra **
Impact Terra, an agtech and fintech for-profit social enterprise, has raised nearly $3 million in grant funding to digitize smallholder farming in Myanmar.
The mobile and ... |
| 15.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, March 15 | ‘FRAUD IS NOT A TRADE SECRET’
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| 13.03.2018 | Wefarm Secures $5M New Financing Round | Wefarm, a London, UK-based farmer-to-farmer digital network, secured $5m in additional seed funding.
The round was led by True Ventures, with participation from Skype and Atomico Founder Niklas Zennström (angel investing in a personal capac... |
| 13.03.2018 | Wefarm Raises $5m from Skype, WordPress Founders for Smallholder Farmer Network | Wefarm, a peer-to-peer farmer network for smallholder farmers, has raised a $5 million second seed round led by True Ventures, which describes itself as a fund focused on “the democratization of innovation as a powerful force for global goo... |
| 13.03.2018 | AgTech Startup Wefarm Secures New Financing Round Led by True Ventures | SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 13, 2018–
Wefarm, the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, today announced that it has secured $5 million in additional seed funding, led by Silicon-Valley basedTrue Ventures. Skype and Atomi... |
| 03.11.2017 | 5 Innovations Making A Social Impact In Africa | Share this:
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| 04.10.2017 | Finalists announced for the AppsAfrica.com Awards 2017 | Share this:
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| 20.06.2017 | Innovation in agriculture: what Nigerian startups need to start considering | Share this article:
A recent agriculture innovation report, released by the Global Innovation Index, ranked Nigeria 119th on the 2017 Global Agricultural Innovation Index. This is a decline from the 114th position the nation ranked last yea... |
| 09.05.2017 | ADV makes first series of investments in six UK companies | Accelerated Digital Ventures (ADV) has made its first investments in six UK companies: Care Sourcer, CharlieHR, Ignite, MoveGB, Techstars London accelerator, and WeFarm.
ADV is an investment platform launched in January backed by Legal &... |
| 26.04.2017 | New Remote Accelerator is Offering Equity-Free Funding for Smart Agrifood Startups! | If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur or agtech startup, you know that finding funding and resources to help launch your company or take it to the next level is a key ingredient to success. Fortunately, we recently partnered with AgThentic to ... |
| 23.04.2017 | As Europe’s startup scene explodes, a continent goes tech conference crazy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 23.04.2017 | As Europe’s startup scene explodes, a continent goes tech conference crazy | Even as Benjamin Costantini was helping organize the 2014 edition of the LeWeb conference in Paris, he had a hunch this was going to be the last edition of what had been one of Europe’s largest and most important tech events for more than a... |
| 01.12.2016 | How a man with no events experience beat all the odds to launch a huge tech conference | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
At the start of May this year, half of Manchester’s tech community was excited about a big new conference about to happen in the city. The other half was bracing itself to watch... |
| 25.11.2016 | WeFarm Secures £1.3M in Seed Funding | WeFarm, a London, UK-based agtech startup, raised £1.3M in seed funding.
The round was led by LocalGlobe.
The company intends to use the funds to expand adoption worldwide.
Launched in 2015 by CEO Kenny Ewan, WeFarm provides a peer-to-peer ... |
| 17.11.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Gene-editing, Food Waste, Insects, Algae, Impact, Biotech, Farmland, more | Spoiler Alert, a startup helping food businesses and farms manage their unsold produce, closed a $2.5 million seed round with sustainable ag investment firm Fresh Source Capital, multi-industry seed stage investor LaunchCapital, the Fink Fa... |
| 17.11.2016 | Kenya’s WeFarm has raised $1.6 million in seed funding | Kenyan peer-to-peer farming information platform, WeFarm, has raised $1.6 million in seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm LocalGlobe. And that’s not all, the company also reached a milestone of over 100,000 farmers on its pla... |
| 16.11.2016 | WeFarm’s ‘Quora for farmers’ scales up in Africa with $1.6M from LocalGlobe | Agricultural tech, or agtech for short, has gradually become a fascinating vertical for startups. It’s a huge, traditional market, just waiting for the new tools provided by the cloud. In Europe, a huge food producer, it’s of particular sig... |
| 21.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Argentina’s S4 Closes $1.2m Seed Round, New Wave Foods Raises Funding for Shrimp Alternative, Indigo’s $100m, more | Microbiome-focused Indigo Closes $100m Series C for Cotton Seed Coating
Indigo has raised a $100 million Series C round as it launches its first commercial product, a seed coating promoting water efficiency in cotton. The round was led by t... |
| 17.07.2016 | Chivas Regal’s “The Venture” rewards social entrepreneurs around the world | Bérénice Magistretti Contributor
Bérénice Magistretti is a Swiss freelance writer based in San Francisco. She focuses on startups in Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and emerging markets.
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| - | Wefarm Connects Small-Scale Farmers to Vital Crowdsourced Intel | We have long believed in the power of technology in terms of democratizing information and opportunity. Typically, those within our industry discuss this on a relative scale across regions of the world where technology is already abundant: ... |
