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Apollo Agriculture

[The Africa Report] Flourish Ventures MD Arjuna Costa targets next generation of unicorns

Flourish Ventures has secured $350m in new funding from the family office of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. By David Whitehouse Flourish Ventures, which invested in Nigerian unicorn Flutterwave in its first seed round in 2017, will be seeking to unearth new unicorns as it deploys $350m in fresh capital, managing...

Apollo Agriculture Founders

[TechCrunch] Kenya-based agritech Apollo raises $40 million in Softbank-led round, joined by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CDC

Originally posted on TechCrunch By Annie Njanja Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture, which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. This is...

Flourish Focus: Apollo (Nairobi)

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Apollo Agriculture Co-Founders

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, fintech companies in Africa saw a surge in venture capital last year and today the region stands out among its emerging-market peers. Africa’s growing population of 1.2B people, its rising mobile adoption and digitization as well as the drop in Internet costs are among key factors...

Why We Invested in Apollo Agriculture: Helping Smallholder Farmers Grow in Africa

Traditionally, the transaction costs of serving farmers have been too high to permit commercial models. However, a new wave of technology-driven ventures are trying to…