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| Mar 11, 2025 | SA agri-tech startup Khula raised $6.8 M Series A funding | Khula, a South African agri-tech startup, has raised ZAR126 million (US $6.8 million) in a Series A round that is still ongoing, with Absa Bank and PepsiCo among its investors.
An ecosystem of three platforms that tackle issues throughout t... |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Khula, a South African agri-tech startup has raised US$6.8 million | South African agri-tech startup Khula has successfully raised ZAR126 million (approximately US$6.8 million) in the initial phase of its Series A funding round. This investment aims to enhance Khula’s digital platform, which seeks to revolut... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | PepsiCo Faces Legal Headwinds While Empowering Farmers in South Africa | PepsiCo is navigating a complex landscape in India while simultaneously championing agricultural innovation in South Africa. The food and beverage giant is caught in a legal tussle over an insolvency petition, while its commitment to suppor... |
| Mar 3, 2025 | PepsiCo, Absa back farmers’ marketplace app Khula in new funding round | PepsiCo’s South African development fund and Absa are backing a mobile marketplace for farmers that allows them to sell their products as well as source logistics, technical expertise and financing.
Khula’s app has 20 000 users, ranging fro... |
| May 18, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: GoodLeaf Farms snags $78m, Prime Roots raises $30m, Miso Robotics gets new investment | This week, Prime Roots raised funding for its mycelium-based take on deli meats and GoodLeaf Farms raked in funding to expand across Canada. Elsewhere, restaurant-tech startup Incentivio scored new funding, a South African bank took a stake... |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Inside Google’s accelerator programme for African startups | Every big company started as an idea. However, the journey of transitioning from an idea to a company is quite daunting, requiring extensive research, experimentation, iterations, and of course, capital.
In the past two decades, the African... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | South Africa’s Nile secures $5.1m in Naspers-led round for its farm produce marketplace | Nile, a South Africa based online platform connecting suppliers of fresh produce to commercial retailers, announced it had raised $5.1 million earlier this week.
The round was led by Naspers Foundry, a VC fund linked to internet company Nas... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Khula, a South African agri-tech startup announces a $1.4 million seed round | Khula! which has been in a rigorous experimental stage for the past three years, has created an ecosystem comprising three platforms targeted at increasing the efficiency of the agricultural value chain:
The Khula, of course. Farmers may se... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | South African agritech startup Khula secures $1.3 million in funding to scale its operations | Khula, a South African agritech startup, has raised $1.3 million in a seed round to expand operations throughout the country.
AECI, one of Africa’s largest agrochemical companies, and E Squared Investments led the round.
Karidas Tshintsholo... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | South Africa’s Khula closes $1.3M seed to scale its software-for-agriculture platform | The myriad challenges faced by farmers in Africa — inadequate financing, education and input distribution — persist and greatly affect the agricultural output on the continent. But startups are providing innovative solutions to these proble... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | SA agritech Khula! launches app after closing R20m funding round | Joburg-based award-winning agritech Khula! announced the launch of their new app in a statement yesterday, after closing a R20-million seed round led by AECI and ESquared Investments.
Khula! launches Inputs App
Founded in 2016 by Karidas ... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | South Africa-based agritech startup, Khula, raises $1.3 million seed to scale operations | Share this article:
Khula, a South Africa-based agritech startup that connects subsistence and commercial farmers to agricultural supply and marketplaces, has announced a $1.3 million seed raise from SA-based agrochemical company AECI and E... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | South Africa’s Khula raises $1.3m seed to scale its agriculture ecosystem solution | The use of modern technologies in agriculture is gradually gaining momentum across Africa. Both local and foreign investors continue to see more opportunities in the sector and how technology can quickly help power it into the projected tri... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | SA agritech Khula! launches app after closing R20m funding round | Joburg-based award-winning agritech Khula! announced the launch of their new app in a statement yesterday, after closing a R20-million seed round led by AECI and ESquared Investments.
Khula! launches Inputs App
Founded in 2016 by Karidas Ts... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | South Africa-based agritech startup, Khula, raises $1.3 million seed to scale operations | Khula, an agritech platform that connects farmers to traditional marketplaces, has announced a $1.3 million raise. The funds will go into scaling their operations across South Africa. |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Khula set to launch agritech platform to public, after netting undisclosed investment | Johannesburg-based agritech startup Khula is preparing to open its marketplace that helps small-scale farmers to the public, early next year, after last month securing undisclosed funding from E Squared Investments.
Khula’s business-to-bus... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Khula set to launch agritech platform to public, after netting undisclosed investment | Johannesburg-based agritech startup Khula is preparing to open its marketplace that helps small-scale farmers to the public, early next year, after last month securing undisclosed funding from E Squared Investments.
Khula’s business-to-busi... |
| Nov 15, 2019 | Here are the startups that won at AfricArena 2019 | This year’s edition of the AfricArena tech conference, which took place on Monday and Tuesday (11 and 12 November) saw 33 startups compete in 11 pitching challenges.
Up for grabs were rewards offered by the respective sponsors of the challe... |
| Nov 15, 2019 | Here are the startups that won at AfricArena 2019 | This year’s edition of the AfricArena tech conference, which took place on Monday and Tuesday (11 and 12 November) saw 33 startups compete in 11 pitching challenges.
Up for grabs were rewards offered by the respective sponsors of the chall... |
| Sep 13, 2019 | Khula, Bonang.ai to pitch at AfricArena Summit after winning Jozi, Cape Town events | Joburg based agritech startup Khula and Cape Town-based insurtech Bonang.ai have been selected to pitch at November’s AfricArena Summit.
This, after the two came out tops at two ecosystem challenges, held in Cape Town and Johannesburg on 3... |
| Sep 13, 2019 | Khula, Bonang.ai to pitch at AfricArena Summit after winning Jozi, Cape Town events | Joburg based agritech startup Khula and Cape Town-based insurtech Bonang.ai have been selected to pitch at November’s AfricArena Summit.
This, after the two came out tops at two ecosystem challenges, held in Cape Town and Johannesburg on 3 ... |
| Feb 7, 2019 | How a trip to Israel sparked the idea behind award winning agritech Khula | A trip to Israel in 2015 sparked the idea behind award-winning agritech startup Khula. So says co-founder Matthew Piper.
Khula was last month tapped to represent the country at the 2019 Chivas Venture finals after winning the SA leg of the... |
| Feb 7, 2019 | How a trip to Israel sparked the idea behind award winning agritech Khula | A trip to Israel in 2015 sparked the idea behind award-winning agritech startup Khula. So says co-founder Matthew Piper.
Khula was last month tapped to represent the country at the 2019 Chivas Venture finals after winning the SA leg of the ... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Jozi’s Khula in running to win $1m after topping SA leg of Chivas Venture 2019 | SA startup Khula has come out tops at the Chivas Venture 2019 SA final in Cape Town and has won a chance to go to London to participate in Chivas Venture’s accelerator programme — and win up to $1-million in funding.
The announcement was m... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Jozi’s Khula in running to win $1m after topping SA leg of Chivas Venture 2019 | SA startup Khula has come out tops at the Chivas Venture 2019 SA final in Cape Town and has won a chance to go to London to participate in Chivas Venture’s accelerator programme — and win up to $1-million in funding.
The announcement was ma... |
| Oct 15, 2018 | Supply-chain solution Khula! bags 2018 MTN Business App of the Year grand prize | SA app Khula! that helps connects emerging farmers to the formal marketplace, has won the grand prize at the 2018 MTN Business App of the Year Awards.
The app was also announced as the winner of the Best Agriculture Solution category at a ... |
| Oct 15, 2018 | Supply-chain solution Khula! bags 2018 MTN Business App of the Year grand prize | SA app Khula! that helps connects emerging farmers to the formal marketplace, has won the grand prize at the 2018 MTN Business App of the Year Awards.
The app was also announced as the winner of the Best Agriculture Solution category at a g... |
| KHULA! | “KHULA! Provides software tools to enable and grow agriculture and food businesses. This includes marketing and trade platforms, procurement platforms and services. We see a connected food system that can support the growing need for sustai... |
| South African agritech startup Khula secures $1.3 million in funding to scale its operations | Khula, a South African agritech startup, has raised $1.3 million in a seed round to expand operations throughout the country.
AECI, one of Africa’s largest agrochemical companies, and E Squared Investments led the round.
Karidas Tshintsholo... |
