Selection

AgWise
AgWise is a data-driven agronomic recommendations engine for cassava, maize, rice, potato, and wheat that uses the latest data science and modeling techniques field data to produce customized advice on fertilizer requirements, optimal planting dates and cultivars, and good agronomic practices for farmers.

Anziboo
Anziboo empowers farmers by enabling them to sustainably cultivate bamboo for high-value biotechnological innovations. Their solution focuses on converting bamboo into eco-friendly fertilizers that releases nutrients gradually. By working directly with farmer associations, Anziboo ensures community ownership and long-term environmental benefits.

Blink Earth
BlinkEarth is a digital monitoring service that helps farmers generate carbon credits through sustainable agricultural practices. Using technologies like GIS, machine learning, and mobile tools, the platform tracks carbon sequestration, validates it, and facilitates the sale of carbon credits. This enables farmers to earn additional income while improving soil health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. BlinkEarth empowers smallholder farmers to access global carbon markets.

Bromecure
The chitosan nanoencapsulated bromelain is an innovative product . It has high anthelmintic, anti-coccidiosis and antibacterial efficacy that matches existing commercial drugs. This herbal product effectively manages helminthosis, coccidiosis, and bacterial diseases in livestock, offering an alternative to conventional, often ineffective drugs. Bromecure has shown high efficacy, with up to 98% success in treating livestock diseases and enhancing growth rates.

Dairy Sense
As an AgriTech solution, Dairy Sense uses advanced sensors and AI to perform real-time non-invasive milk quality assessment. Our tool provides dairy farmers with an affordable, efficient alternative to the traditional way of ensuring high milk quality instantly. Farmers have actionable insight, which means they make informed decisions, reduce waste and increase production.

Digilivestock Solutions Ltd
The innovative solution entails digital registration of livestock. Through digital identification, livestock is linked to the rightful and legitimate owner and specific location for traceability. Livestock, upon registration is given a tag with a unique digital identity that cannot be replicated elsewhere. Upon exit, through death or slaughter, tag with digital identification is returned to the company for digital exit. The digital identification database is managed solely by the company.

Ecorich Solutions
Ecorich Solutions pioneered the use of an innovative technology called the Wastebot. This power-driven, sensor-based innovation is designed to efficiently convert organic waste into organic fertilizer in just 24 hours. The Wastebot is a smart and automated system that takes organic waste and transforms it into nutrient-rich organic fertilizer through a rapid and controlled process.

Everlend Agritech
Everlend is a social digital platform that offers digital green loan, quality affordable farm inputs on credit as well as providing market information within 2 hours to small business owners and farmers using a propriatory technology through a network of agents.

FarmonAI
FarmonAI is an innovative system that uses artificial intelligence and thermal imaging to detect diseases in livestock, aiming to improve early diagnosis and enhance animal health management. By capturing heat patterns from specific body parts of animals, the system analyzes these thermal changes to identify potential health issues before visible symptoms arise. This early detection allows farmers to take preventive measures, reducing the spread of diseases such as foot-and-mouth, Rift Valley fever, and other livestock ailments.

FeatheryCare Ltd
CluckLens is an AI-driven system designed to automate the monitoring and management of poultry farms. It uses cameras connected to a central system to continuously capture real-time data on bird behavior and health. This data is analyzed using a cluster of artificial intelligence models, which detects and alerts farmers to potential issues such as heat stress, abnormal behaviors, or other signs of distress.

Flux - Enhanced Rock Weathering
Flux is unlocking the potential of Enhanced Rock Weathering in Africa to improve the lives of smallholder farmers, funded by carbon finance. We spread crushed silicate rocks on crops, which improves yields and captures carbon certifications for small-scale farmers. Through the sale of carbon credits to global corporates, Flux is able to provide smallholder farmers in Kenya with the rock powders free of charge, while also paying them for their efforts in spreading the material.

Galinsoga Parviflora Weed
The introduction of Galinsoga Parviflora (Gallant Soldier) in the poultry feed value chain will enhance climate change resilience to ensure food security, reduce cost of production due to feed shortages, provide variety of nutrients to support life on land and reduce poverty.The research study will be conducted at Daystar University poultry farm at Athi River in Machakos County in Kenya.

JANI AI
JANI AI is a cloud platform that offers end-to-end digital traceability of the food supply chain from farm to fork in Africa. Their platform provides Farmer Management, Product Cataloging, and Inventory Management software. JANI targets off-takers, exporters, food processors, and cooperatives in the farming industry.

Nanex
Nanex is an innovative organic formulation designed to preserve dry produce, prevent pests, and protect against fungal and aflatoxin contamination. Using sublimation technology, Nanex absorbs moisture without coating produce with toxic chemicals, ensuring food safety. Packaged in convenient sachets, it offers smallholder farmers an affordable and easy-to-use solution for post-harvest management. Nanex is made from locally available ingredients, some of which are produced by farmers.

On Demand Good Agriculture Practices (GAP) Information - Sprout
Availing digital advisory content through an easily searchable content hub for farmer support organizations. The content is customizable to suit end-user needs, including local language adaptations. This approach ensures that the information is both accessible and relevant, maximizing its impact on smallholder farmers.

Patvention LTD
Patvention Ltd manufactures and sells ethical and efficient bee venom extraction equipment that enhances beekeeper income while promoting colony health. The device uses gentle stimulation techniques to improve venom extraction by 30%, reducing bee stress by 80%. The company aims to contribute to Kenya's agricultural development by supporting ethical practices and creating a reliable supply chain for bee venom.

Regrowth
Regrowth provides a solution tracks animal behavior, growth rate, and other parameters to provide real-time data for the farm manager. This is achieved by an on-site modular IoT station able to identify individual animals, and ML protocols that analyze the data to present management indications. Our field trials showed a reduction of 90% in animal mortality, 60% in antibiotic use, and 30% in feed consumption, all while maintaining the same production values.

Safariwatch Animal Telematics
Safariwatch Animal Telematics solution uses sensors in livestock management to count, track, and monitor the health and behavior of animals, providing early warnings of health issues.

Soil Doctors
Soil Doctors manufactures and promotes application of carbon sink planters that are used by farmers in ASALs areas who want to grow trees in these dry and degraded lands. Their carbon sink planters let them reduce irrigation costs and time, increase survival rate of trees, and regenerate their soil’s health. It’s an all-in-one technological input that maintains moisture content, and provides nutrients in young trees, and is more affordable and guarantees 85% survival rate of trees in dry areas.

Source Plus (ApiTrace)
ApiTrace works to bridge the gap between climate risks and market acceptance, through a traceability and monitoring system. It is driven by blockchain, GIS, machine learning, big data, and integrates offline use. It provides insights to counter contamination risks, allows for the tracking of honey, pinpointing harvest details and enables comprehensive screening, and certifications for small-scale farmers.

SowPrecise
SowPrecise Africa is an innovative agri-tech startup based in Kenya, committed to addressing the challenges faced by smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). They focus on providing affordable, sustainable, and scalable irrigation solutions through their flagship product, SunRider. SunRider is a solar-powered, mobile irrigation service that operates on an ownership-free, on-demand basis.

Umuntu Agrobiotics
Umuntu Agrobiotics helps small holder farmers double their yields using beneficial soil Microorganisms. The company offers an organic soil amendment solution that enhances soil fertility, addressing the challenges posed by climate change and declining soil health. By using locally sourced materials, including soil and milk waste, Umuntu Agrobiotics creates a product that can be easily applied by farmers using familiar methods.

VunaPay
VunaPay is a digital platform that facilitates instant payments to smallholder farmers for produce delivered to cooperatives, addressing the challenge of delayed payments. By leveraging mobile technology and partnerships with key financial and telecom institutions like Safaricom, KCB Bank, and the Government’s Commodities Fund, VunaPay has created a seamless platform that allows farmers to receive immediate payouts for their delivered produce.

x-taka
XTaka is an innovative solution that uses a novel technology to tackle the diaper waste problem in Africa. By transforming diaper waste into hydrochar, a carbon-rich material used in agriculture and energy sectors, Xtaka provides a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to conventional waste management methods like landfills and incineration. Their solution reduces environmental pollution while offering practical applications in organic farming.

Zaoshinani
Zaoletu which means ‘our yield’, is a SaaS platform that automates processes in agricultural societies and provides smallholder farmers a quick and easy channel to access financial services. Zaoletu is revolutionising the way smallholder farmers and cooperatives engage with the agricultural ecosystem in Kenya. It not only digitises the entire value chain but also equips farmers with real-time insights and financial services tailored to their needs.