Victory Farms is a social venture based near Kenya's Lake Victoria. VF will create 700 jobs for Kenyans and feed another 2 million Kenyans' total protein.
Location: Kenya
Employees: 501-1000
Phone: +254 793 326188
Total raised: $40M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 16.07.2023 | Creadev | creadev.co... |
| - | Timon Capi... | timoncapit... |
| - | DOB Equity | dobequity.... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 11.04.2023 | Series B | $35M | Creadev |
| 19.05.2022 | - | $5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 13
| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.04.2024 | Kenya’s Stable Foods on bolstering food security with irrigation tech: ‘The response from farmers has been encouraging’ | When Andrew Massaro landed in Homa Bay, Kenya in 2022, he encountered a major contradiction: a region with plenty of fresh water, vast land and people but where food insecurity and poverty run deep. Adjacent to Lake Victoria, the second-lar... |
| 11.01.2024 | Data snapshot: From insect ag and vertical farming to aquaculture… the top 20 deals in Novel Farming Systems in 2023 | Data snapshot is a regular AgFunderNews feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletters to receive alerts ab... |
| 28.12.2023 | The top 20 agtech deals of 2023 | Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company is AgFunder. Agtech deals of 2023 followed much the same trajectory as other tech sectors, with lower valuations and far fewer mega-rounds than seen in the VC heyday of 2021 and early 2022. This year... |
| 11.04.2023 | Kenyan agritech Victory Farms raises $35 million Series B TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report Success! | Victory Farms, a Kenya-based aquaculture startup, has raised $35 million in a Series B round. The startup says it will use the funding to finance the expansion of its operations in Kenya and Rwanda and potential entry into Ethiopia, Uganda,... |
| 23.06.2022 | African Agritech funding for the first half of 2022 | The African tech ecosystem has shown impressive growth in the last decade, and many investors want to have a seed in this thriving ecosystem. Last year, Disrupt Africa revealed that 564 tech startups raised over $2 billion in 2021. It’s exc... |
| 02.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Synthesis Capital closes $300m foodtech fund, e-grocer Astro bags $60m | Though many “instant” grocery delivery startups are in the midst of layoffs, one company in Indonesia bagged a healthy Series B round this week. Elsewhere, US ag robotics specialist FarmWise teased a new weeding implement along with its lat... |
| 27.05.2022 | Kenya’s Victory Farms nets $5m as it edges towards precision fish farming | Kenyan aquaculture company Victory Farms, East Africa’s largest commercial fish farmer, has raised $5 million in equity funding to expand its operations into Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The round was led by ... |
| 27.05.2022 | Victory Farms, a Kenyan aquaculture startup, has received $5 million in funding to expand its operations | Victory Farms, a tilapia fish farm and aquaculture firm in Kenya, has raised $5 million in new capital. Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capital, and Hans den Bieman, the founder and former CEO of Mowi, one of the world’s lar... |
| 19.05.2022 | Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets | Victory Farms, an aquaculture startup and farm for tilapia fish comprising hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages, has raised $5 million in new funding. The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing director at Bain Capit... |
| 26.01.2022 | Q&A: VestedWorld’s Euler Bropleh on the opportunity of investing in ‘the basics’ in Africa | Euler Bropleh was born in war-torn Liberia and has long had a vision for reinvesting in Africa’s vulnerable communities. With his Chicago-based impact investment firm VestedWorld, Bropleh has raised two early-stage investment funds and supp... |
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