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| 18.04.2024 | SunCulture Shines Bright with $27.5M Series B Funding | SunCulture, a game-changer in solar-powered irrigation solutions for smallholder farmers, has secured a whopping $27.5 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. This investment marks a significant milestone in the company's missi... |
| 17.04.2024 | SunCulture Raises $27.5M in Oversubscribed Series B Funding | Share this:
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| 15.04.2024 | Kenya’s SunCulture raised $27.5 M in oversubscribed Series B funding round | Kenya’s SunCulture, which offers smallholder farmers agricultural technology and solar-powered irrigation systems, has completed a US $27.5 million Series B funding round to support its expansion and create new goods.
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| 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, ... |
| 22.11.2022 | Tackling the irrigation gap with solar power: SunCulture closes USD 10 million financing round to support African smallholders. | The USD 10 million mezzanine loan contracted between SunCulture, EEGF, ARAF and EDFI ElectriFI will allow the company to expand activity in Kenya, Ivory Coast, and Uganda. |
| 18.10.2022 | 50 African tech founders launch Pando DAO to drive development across Africa | In recent times, the African tech ecosystem has been on a steady upward trajectory. This year, venture funding on the continent is projected to cross the 7 billion mark with almost a thousand deals, establishing the continent as an outlier ... |
| 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 ... |
| 16.09.2021 | Acumen’s new ag fund ushers commercial capital to farmers’ fight against climate change | Editor’s note: AFN’s coverage of the emerging African agrifoodtech sector is supported by Dutch development bank FMO.
A third of the world’s food is grown on farms less than two hectares in size. That food supply is increasingly jeopardized... |
| 23.02.2021 | SunCulture, a Kenyan solar irrigation company, raises $11 million to expand solar irrigation across Africa. | SunCulture, a Kenyan-based technology company has a raised US$11 million.
The funding of US$11 million syndicated debt facility raised by SunCulture will be used expand its operations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Because of its size and its innov... |
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| 04.12.2020 | SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the world’s next bread basket, one solar water pump at a time | The world’s food supply must double by the year 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population, according to a report from the United Nations. And as pressure mounts to find new crop land to support the growth, the world’s eyes are increa... |
| 16.10.2017 | World Food Day: 5 Farmtech Startups Serving Smallholder Farms | UPDATED: November 12, 2018 to remove Olam from the list of startup companies.
According to the United Nations, agriculture and other “rural activities” are the main source of income for three-quarters of the world’s “extreme poor”.
Every ye... |
| 27.06.2017 | Six African startups receive Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative seed grants | Microsoft announced yesterday (26 June) that it will award seed grants of an undisclosed amount to six innovative African businesses.
The seed grants are being awarded through the multinational tech company’s Affordable Access Initiative (... |
| 27.06.2017 | Six African startups receive Microsoft’s Affordable Access Initiative seed grants | Microsoft announced yesterday (26 June) that it will award seed grants of an undisclosed amount to six innovative African businesses.
The seed grants are being awarded through the multinational tech company’s Affordable Access Initiative (A... |
| 21.04.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: Tyson Hires First Sustainability Officer, Food + Future Lab May Close, Unilever Acquires Sir Kensington’s, more | Tyson Foods Appoints its First Chief Sustainability Officer
Major poultry producer Tyson Foods has named Justin Whitmore to the newly-created role of Chief Sustainability Officer. The appointment follows the company’s introduction of a new ... |
| 19.01.2017 | AgFunder Innovation Awards 2016 Winners Announced | Today we are excited to release the winners of the inaugural AgFunder Innovation Awards.
Startup activity in food and agriculture technology is growing dramatically; at AgFunder we’ve come across over 5k companies since 2014. At the same ti... |
| 09.01.2017 | How One Startup is Deploying Agtech in Developing Markets | Editor’s Note: I re-posted this with a full transcription of the podcast as my guest Samir Ibrahim was recently named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for energy. Congratulations Samir!
Samir Ibrahim is CEO and cofounder of SunCulture, a sola... |
| 07.01.2017 | Ag Industry Brief: SunCulture CEO on Forbes 30 Under 30, NOAA May Open More Federal Waters to Aquaculture, Fast Food Chains Adopt New Antibiotic Policies, More | Origin Agritech & DuPont Sign Definitive Agreement for Non-GM Seed Access
Origin Agritech, an agricultural biotechnology trait and seed provider, signed a definitive agreement with DuPont Pioneer, the advanced seed and genetics business... |
| 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. ... |
| 06.01.2016 | 6 Questions with Kenyan Irrigation Tech Provider SunCulture on Startup Funding Challenge | Earlier this month, a coalition of national governments, aid agencies, corporations and private funding organizations last month awarded $12.9 million worth of grants to 13 clean energy innovations targeting emerging market agriculture.
Sun... |
| 25.07.2015 | Startups Grow In Africa, But Ecosystems Need More To Flourish | Elmira Bayrasli Contributor
Elmira Bayrasli is the co-founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and the author of From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places.
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| - | SunCulture, a Kenyan solar irrigation company, raises $11 million to expand solar irrigation across Africa. | SunCulture, a Kenyan-based technology company has a raised US$11 million.
The funding of US$11 million syndicated debt facility raised by SunCulture will be used expand its operations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Because of its size and its innov... |
| - | 33-year-old who runs a multimillion-dollar start-up to help fight climate change: 'You can be altruistic and successful' | Starting a business is not for the faint of heart.
Samir Ibrahim, the CEO and co-founder of SunCulture, a multimillion-dollar start-up working to fight climate change, can't emphasize this point enough.
It's been 10 years since Ibrahim and ... |
| - | SunCulture | “At SunCulture, we strive to solve the biggest daily challenges of smallholder farmers. We use off-grid solar technology to provide our customers with reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging, and we can do all of... |
| - | This 33-year-old raised $40 million to give rural farmers solar power and help fight climate change | Samir Ibrahim didn't have a singular "aha" moment that led him to his multimillion-dollar business and a crusade to fight climate change 8,000 miles from his home in Orlando.
It's been 10 years since Ibrahim and his co-founder Cha... |
