AgTech

Kenyan agtech Shamba Pride raises $3.7M to grow its merchant network

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Shamba Pride has since 2016 worked to enhance last-mile distribution for farm inputs and tackle price exploitation and quality issues for farmers through its merchant network dubbed digishops. The agtech has, so far, built a network of merchants (agro-dealers) extending across 24 counties in Kenya, which represents just over half of the country. It now … Read more

The Burro Grande finds the agtech robotics firm going big

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Burro has been on our radar since early  2020, when the company (then Augean) participated in a TechCrunch Robotics pitch-off. The Philly-based firm has actually been around since 2017, but it’s really the last few years that have seen its agtech offering really take off. Those successes have, of course, coincided with the pandemic and … Read more