| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.09.2025 | Uganda: Heifer Partners With Agri-Tech Company for Tractor Financing Model to Farmers | Farm equipment company , Hello Tractor has partnered with Heifer International to use technology to bring new ideas and disruptive innovations that will improve farming, increase food supply, and create jobs along the agricultural chain.
As... |
| 07.04.2024 | Innovative Agritech Solutions: Modernizing Agriculture in Africa | Innovative agritech solutions are playing a crucial role in modernizing agriculture in Africa, addressing various challenges such as limited access to resources, climate change, and food security.
These technologies leverage digital tools, ... |
| 19.06.2023 | Africa’s next leap forward (part 1): Agrifoodtech startups to watch, from Cupmena to Aerobotics | Editor’s note: Bioengineer and microbiologist Saron Berhane is an independent consultant and was the cofounder of Australian agtech startup BioScout.
The views expressed in this guest article are the author’s own and do not necessarily repr... |
| 22.08.2022 | Hello Tractor joins new Nigerian agri innovation hub | The award-winning agritech start-up Hello Tractor is among the first organisations to join the Edo Agri Digital Innovation Hub. This is a brand-new Pan-African initiative aimed at creating an ecosystem to promote digital transformation, inn... |
| 22.08.2022 | Hello Tractor joins new Nigerian agri innovation hub | The award-winning agritech start-up Hello Tractor is among the first organisations to join the Edo Agri Digital Innovation Hub. This is a brand-new Pan-African initiative aimed at creating an ecosystem to promote digital transformation, inn... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 16.08.2022 | Why John Deere invested in Africa’s Hello Tractor | American ag machinery behemoth Deere & Company — more commonly known as John Deere, recently invested in Hello Tractor, a Nigeria-headquartered marketplace and fleet management technology for African farmers to rent tractors.
The startu... |
| 09.05.2022 | Heifer International invests $1 million in Hello Tractor to boost agribusinesses in Africa | The global population would spike to about nine billion by 2050 so there is an increasing need to increase food productivity. Investment in agriculture is necessary to feed this ballooning population. The global demand for food will increas... |
| 05.05.2022 | Hello Tractor in Nigeria has raised $1 million from Heifer International | Hello Tractor, a Nigerian tractor-booking platform, has received $1 million in funding from Heifer International to provide loans for tractor purchases that may be repaid with revenue generated by leasing the tractors to local farmers.
Hell... |
| 25.04.2022 | Capital Grains: Technology, Innovation And Level Playing Fields | Some of the participants in Hello Tractor's heavy farm machinery sharing program Courtesy of Hello Tractor |
| 25.03.2022 | 12 agtech takeaways from 12 global agriculture experts | Rhishi Pethe is the creator of “Software is Feeding the World,” a free weekly newsletter about tech trends in food and agriculture, and head of product management for Project Mineral at X.
The views expressed in this guest article are the a... |
| 09.09.2021 | Winners of Inaugural AYuTe Africa Challenge secure $1.5-million | The winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge, hosted and conducted by Heifer International, have been announced. The two winners were selected for their innovative services and products that assist the agricultural sector and have been awarded... |
| 09.09.2021 | Winners of Inaugural AYuTe Africa Challenge secure $1.5-million | The winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge, hosted and conducted by Heifer International, have been announced. The two winners were selected for their innovative services and products that assist the agricultural sector and have been awarded... |
| 24.08.2020 | Mastercard’s accelerator program adds 11 fintech startups | Mastercard is boosting the efforts of fintechs who are bridging the gap in payment services for retailers and other businesses through their program.
The Purchase, New York-based payments provider added 11 startups to its Accelerate fintech... |
| 25.02.2020 | John Deere partners with ‘Uber of tractors’ startup Hello Tractor to expand its presence to African market | Deer & Co, the world’s leading farm equipment maker, announced today it is teaming up with Hello Tractor, a tractor-hailing agritech startup that help farmers to hail the machines via an app, monitors the vehicles’ movements and transmi... |
| 23.12.2019 | African tech startups netted over $6m in collective prize money in 2019 [List] | African tech startups this year tapped millions of dollars by taking part in and winning startup competitions — at least over $6-million collectively, by Ventureburn’s calculations.
The biggest cash prize went to South African insurtech sta... |
| 23.12.2019 | African tech startups netted over $6m in collective prize money in 2019 [List] | African tech startups this year tapped millions of dollars by taking part in and winning startup competitions — at least over $6-million collectively, by Ventureburn’s calculations.
The biggest cash prize went to South African insurtech st... |
| 18.11.2019 | Nigeria’s Hello Tractor, Kenya’s BuuPass win $15k each in Bosch Africa Smart Mobility prize | Nigeria’s Hello Tractor and Kenya’s BuuPass have each won $15 000 and three month’s acceleration in Bosch Africa’s Smart Mobility competition.
The two startups were among the 222 teams from 27 countries that submitted applications for the ... |
| 18.11.2019 | Nigeria’s Hello Tractor, Kenya’s BuuPass win $15k each in Bosch Africa Smart Mobility prize | Nigeria’s Hello Tractor and Kenya’s BuuPass have each won $15 000 and three month’s acceleration in Bosch Africa’s Smart Mobility competition.
The two startups were among the 222 teams from 27 countries that submitted applications for the c... |
| 14.11.2019 | Bosch Awards $30000 to Winners of Africa Mobility Pitch Competition | Bosch has awarded a total of $30000 to the winners of its Africa Mobility Pitch competition. In addition to the fund, the winners will participate in Bosch’s accelerator and access its facilities and laboratories.
Congratulations to Hello T... |
| 20.12.2018 | IBM Africa and Hello Tractor pilot AI/blockchain agtech platform | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| 17.07.2018 | Why Africa Needs More Agritech Entrepreneurs | Agriculture is the biggest employer in Africa with about 70% of the population depending on it to make a living. It accounted for about 32% of Africa’s GDP as at 2016. Growth in the sector is said to be 11 times more effective in reducing p... |
| 04.07.2018 | How Hello Tractor’s Digital Platform is Enabling the Mechanization of African Farming | Editor’s Note: Van Jones is head of strategy and cofounder of Hello Tractor, a technology platform connecting Nigerian farmers with tractor services. Previously selling tractors to farmers on credit, which you can read about here, Hello Tra... |
| 12.09.2017 | Jobs Weekly: Vacancies for Graphic designer, PHP developer, UI/UX designer and more | Share this article:
We have compiled a list of some available job openings for you this week. Be sure to apply for roles you are interested in as soon as you can. Freelance Graphic Designer at Launch Pad
Location: USA
Job type: Remote
Adver... |
| 05.10.2016 | How Does Agtech Fit an Impact Investing Thesis? | Editor’s Note: I recently attended SOCAP, the largest conference for the impact investing community, and was excited to note a growing enthusiasm on the potential for food and agriculture technology to promote positive change in the world. ... |
| 20.08.2015 | 3 African countries that show investment promise as global tech hubs | Over the past decade, countries such as South Africa, Kenya, and Seychelles have emerged as Africa’s tech hubs. Kenya is increasingly touted as the Silicon Savannah, owing its position to technologies like M-Pesa and Ushahidi being exported... |
| 20.08.2015 | 3 African countries that show investment promise as global tech hubs | Over the past decade, countries such as South Africa, Kenya, and Seychelles have emerged as Africa’s tech hubs. Kenya is increasingly touted as the Silicon Savannah, owing its position to technologies like M-Pesa and Ushahidi being exported... |
| 29.07.2015 | 10 finalists emerge for Seedstars World Lagos challenge | Global startup competition Seedstars World has revealed 10 Nigerian startups that will pitch their hearts out later in Lagos this week.
The winner of the Nigerian event will be invited to Switzerland where it will represent the country in ... |
| 29.07.2015 | 11 Nigerian Startups to battle in Lagos for a chance to win $500,000 at Seedstars World | Share this article:
In 2013, Simeon Ononobi of SimplePay won a ticket to Geneva to compete against the finest startups from 36 countries in the Seedstars World competition. He emerged 1st runner up to secure $330,000.
The Seedstars World ev... |
| 29.07.2015 | 10 finalists emerge for Seedstars World Lagos challenge | Global startup competition Seedstars World has revealed 10 Nigerian startups that will pitch their hearts out later in Lagos this week.
The winner of the Nigerian event will be invited to Switzerland where it will represent the country in t... |
| 17.02.2015 | Why entrepreneur Maxime Paul wants you to learn from his mistakes | “It started with me not being able to start a business,” said Maxime Paul, the founder and CEO of e2: educating entrepreneurs. “I didn’t know what I was doing, I couldn’t find funding.”
Paul knows, from his own rocky path into the startup w... |
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| - | Hello Tractor in Nigeria has raised $1 million from Heifer International | Hello Tractor, a Nigerian tractor-booking platform, has received $1 million in funding from Heifer International to provide loans for tractor purchases that may be repaid with revenue generated by leasing the tractors to local farmers.
Hell... |
| - | Bosch Awards $30000 to Winners of Africa Mobility Pitch Competition | Bosch has awarded a total of $30000 to the winners of its Africa Mobility Pitch competition. In addition to the fund, the winners will participate in Bosch’s accelerator and access its facilities and laboratories.
Congratulations to Hello T... |
