Reimagining agricultural insurance to protect smallholders worldwide.
At Pula, we are radically restructuring insurance, using technology and parametric insurance to insure the previously unbanked, uninsured, untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide.
We work across Africa and Asia, and in 2019 alone, we facilitated crop and livestock insurance cover to 1.1mln farmers and have offered our products in 11 markets . Since starting in 2015, our products have impacted over 4.9 Million smallholder farmers.
Our Founders work in insurance has been recognized by several international awards including the Financial Times/IFC Award for Sustainable Finance, the Singapore Fintech Festival, Womens World Banking, Credit Suisse, and InsureTech3.0.
We partner with organisations across multiple value chains, from agriculture to renewable energy including Fortune 500 Companies, Global NGO’s, Microfinance Instructions, Research Institutions, and Governments to help provide households the protection they need in an increasingly unpredictable climate.
Location: Switzerland, Glarus, Mollis
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $26M
Founded date: 2014
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | DFS Lab | dfslab.net |
| 30.11.2021 | TLcom Capi... | tlcomcapit... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 14.04.2024 | Series B | $20M | - |
| 25.01.2021 | Series A | $6M | - |
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| 23.04.2024 | TLcom Capital Closes Africa's Largest Early-Stage VC Fund at $154 Million | TLcom Capital, an African VC firm, has successfully closed its second fund, TIDE Africa Fund II, at $154 million, solidifying its position as the largest investor in seed and Series A startups across Africa. The oversubscribed fund attracte... |
| 22.04.2024 | TLcom closes Africa’s largest early-stage VC fund at $154 Million | Today, TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, announced the final close of TIDE Africa Fund II, its second fund for technology in Africa, at $154 million. Confirming TLcom Capital’s status as Africa’s largest Seed and Serie... |
| 22.04.2024 | Weekly Economic Index: Starlink cuts Users in SA, Kenya’s database to halt tax evasion and Nigeria’s economy slips to fourth-largest. | Here are three big stories from Africa’s business and policy landscape you (probably) didn’t miss but should keep in mind this week: Starlink Cuts Off South African Users Over Licensing Issues South African Starlink users face a sudden inte... |
| 14.04.2024 | Pula raises $20M Series B to provide agricultural insurance to farmers in Africa, Asia and LatAm | Pula, an insurtech based in Kenya, has since 2015 been keen on enhancing the access to agricultural insurance by small-holder farmers across emerging markets, shielding them against losses from pests, diseases and/or extreme weather events ... |
| 12.01.2024 | Wellahealth Founder wins the fifth edition of Africa’s Business Heroes prize | Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and fifth year of hosting its annual prize competition. This philanthropic initiative run by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy is dedicated to identifyin... |
| 13.11.2023 | Heroes tales: 5 African businesses impacting their communities | Africa has a long path to economic prosperity. According to the World Bank, seven of the ten most unequal countries in the world are in Africa, especially the Sub-Saharan region. Why? Value creation on the continent is far from its potentia... |
| 10.10.2023 | TLcom announces Africa Tech Female Founder Summit 2023 | TLcom Capital, the Africa-focused venture capital firm, has officially announced its fifth annual Africa Tech Female Founder Summit, which will be held on Tuesday 14th November 2022 in Lagos, Nigeria. The headline session will feature a fir... |
| 11.05.2022 | Embion and Proton awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum | |
| 10.03.2022 | East Africa can tackle food insecurity via digitalization, but infrastructure needs funding too: report | Nations in East Africa must prioritize technological innovations and digitalization of food systems in order to tackle perennial food insecurity, according to a new report by London-based market insights provider Briter Bridges. The report ... |
| 26.10.2021 | AFN Africa: Investing in knowledge & information to accelerate innovation in African agriculture | This post has been published in partnership with FMO. The author is Maurice Scheepens, a senior investment officer with FMO’s Ventures Program who focuses on developing and implementing its agritech strategy. There’s a $1 trillion market op... |
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