| Date | Title | Description |
| 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... |
| 28.02.2023 | Releaf Raises 250K in Funding | Releaf, a Nigerian agritech company, raised $250k in funding.
Plesion Capital made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its efforts to industrialize food processing in Africa.
Led by Co-founder and CEO Ikenna Nzewi... |
| 12.01.2023 | The week in agrifoodtech: $42m for No Meat Factory, New Age Eats ‘lets go’ of pilot facility, Benson Hill co-founder passes away | This week, Canadian alt-protein startup No Meat Factory raised Series B funding, while down in the US, New Age Eats let go of its nearly completed pilot facility. There were two new deals for forestry-related projects along with new funding... |
| 12.01.2023 | Что мы будем есть завтра? | Сгенерировано нейросетью DALL-E для этой статьи
В этом году человечество преодолело рубеж 8 миллиардов людей. Если посмотреть на прогресс, на достижения медицины, культуру гигиены и на график рождаемости — то становится очевидно, что уже со... |
| 10.01.2023 | Releaf secures $3.3M to transform agricultural supply chains in Africa | Releaf, a technology company that makes it easier for consumer goods manufacturers in Africa to access high-quality ingredients for their factories, has raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed Pre-Series A funding round. The new funding wi... |
| 09.01.2023 | Nigerian agritech Releaf gets more capital as it launches new tech for food processing | Releaf, a Nigerian agritech startup that supplies ingredients (starting with the oil palm) to consumer goods manufacturers and their food factories, has received $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round.
The Jack Ma Foundation-b... |
| 09.01.2023 | Nigerian agritech Releaf gets more capital as it launches new tech for food processing | Releaf, a Nigerian agritech startup that supplies ingredients (starting with the oil palm) to consumer goods manufacturers and their food factories, has received $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round. |
| 09.01.2023 | Nigerian agritech Releaf secures $3.3m pre-series A funding | The Nigerian agritech start-up Releaf has raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-series A funding round. The new funding will support the launch of two new technologies being rolled out by the company making it easier for African cons... |
| 09.01.2023 | Nigerian agritech Releaf secures $3.3m pre-series A funding | The Nigerian agritech start-up Releaf has raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre-series A funding round. The new funding will support the launch of two new technologies being rolled out by the company making it easier for African cons... |
| 09.01.2023 | YC-backed Releaf raises $3.3 million pre-Series A to improve technologies for food processing in Africa
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Success! | Releaf, an agritech startup disrupting Africa’s oil production industry, has secured $3.3 million pre-Series A funding. The funding round, which the startup says was oversubscribed, will support the roll-out of key technologies that could f... |
| 09.01.2023 | Releaf Raises $3.3M in Pre-Series A Funding | Uzoma Ayogu (CTO) and Ikenna Nzewi (CEO)
Releaf, a Lagos, Nigeria-based technology company that makes it easier for consumer goods manufacturers in Africa to access high-quality ingredients for their factories, raised $3.3m in Pre-Series A ... |
| 27.12.2021 | YC Startup Releaf Revolutionizes Nigeria’s Palm Oil Industry Through Its Principles | Vegetable oil is a key ingredient in many dishes across the world. However, the ability to produce it at scale is limited by the technology at one’s disposal. Nigeria is the world’s largest consumer of palm oil, yet relies on manually break... |
| 08.12.2021 | Techpoint Awards 2021: And the nominees are… | Share this article:
[Updated on December 15, 2021]: Payourse requested to be removed as a finalist in The Most Outstanding Crypto Exchange category.
[Updated on December 14, 2021]: The Most Outstanding Logistics Startup 2021 was renamed Mos... |
| 28.10.2021 | Kepple Africa Ventures is creating new industries in the investment space | For Satoshi Shinada, taking bets and investing is not something he just started doing.
At the age of 18, he took his first bet to invest in himself by leaving Japan to visit 40 African countries in the space of almost two years. I know what... |
| 27.10.2021 | AgTech Startup Releaf to improve growth and sustainability of palm oil production | Share this:
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| 20.10.2021 | Industrializing food processing in Africa | n times of chaos and crisis in Africa, taking people out of rural poverty to industrialisation becomes an unmet need. Releaf, a Nigerian startup is bridging the gap between the larger consumers and smallholder farmers.
To understand more a... |
| 07.10.2021 | AFRICA’S BUSINESS HEROES ANNOUNCES TOP 10 FINALISTS | Ten finalists, 50% female and from 7 African countries, will make their pitch at the grand finale pitch in November.
Accra, 4th October, 2021 – The 2021 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize, a flagship philanthropic program established by ... |
| 23.09.2021 | Meet the founder: Releaf’s Ikenna Nzewi wants Nigerian palm oil to be the next big thing | Nigeria’s palm oil sector exemplifies the persistent challenges that have stymied Africa’s agricultural production at large. There are an estimated 4 million smallholder farmers cultivating oil palm in the country, but they lack modern tech... |
| 22.09.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Cargill, Heineken & Nestlé unveil regenerative ag programs | In the past seven days, a trio of major agrifood corporates doubled-down on sustainability by announcing new regenerative ag schemes.
Meanwhile, Ford and Walmart said they are partnering on autonomous food delivery tech; and Indigo made the... |
| 16.09.2021 | Nigerian agritech secures $4.2-million in seed funding and grants | Lagos-based agritech startup Releaf has secured $2.7-million in a seed funding round led by Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers with participation from Stephen Pagliuca, Chairman of Bain Capital and Jus... |
| 16.09.2021 | Nigerian agritech secures $4.2-million in seed funding and grants | Lagos-based agritech startup Releaf has secured $2.7-million in a seed funding round led by Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers with participation from Stephen Pagliuca, Chairman of Bain Capital and Jus... |
| 15.09.2021 | Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology | The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and hu... |
| 15.09.2021 | Nigeria’s Releaf secures $4.2m funding to industrialize food processing in Africa | Releaf, a Nigerian agriculture technology company that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions to drive the industrialisation of food processing in Africa, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding and grants to scale its technol... |
| 15.09.2021 | DEAL: Nigerian agritech startup, Releaf secures $4.2 million in seed funding and grant | --> -->
Releaf, an agritech start-up that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions that makes African farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable, has raised $2.7 million in seed funding.
The round was led by ... |
| 06.09.2021 | Endeavor Nigeria unveils ScaleUp program with 7 Nigerian entrepreneurs | To build a formidable business ecosystem that can stand the test of time, one must first build people into leaders. Then these leaders will hold the touch through the journey of building the desired ecosystem.
Endeavor Nigeria, in a bid to ... |
| 20.07.2021 | How Agritech startup, Releaf, wants to change the face of food processing in Africa | Share this article:
The dominance of Nigeria’s palm oil industry during the 1960s is often repeated when tales of the country’s glory days are told. In the years following independence, Nigeria was the world’s largest palm oil producer with... |
| 31.05.2021 | Releaf, OnePipe Partnership Deepens Financial Inclusion, Improves Productivity For South-South Farmers | Over 65 percent of Nigerians are outside the financial services envelope, with millions unbanked or under-banked
Over 2,000 oil palm farmers in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states now have access to digitized financial services, thanks to a pa... |
| 11.11.2020 | How Future Africa invested $1 million across 9 African startups in Q3 2020 | Share this article:
Future Africa, a platform that provides capital, coaching, and community for African innovators, just announced that it invested a total of $1 million in nine African startups in the third quarter of this year.
The firm ... |
