Agriculture, forestry and fishing

FoodPrint Labs is a Cape Town based start-up that is on a mission to digitise food supply chains in Sub-Saharan Africa, and in the process improve the economic welfare of smallholder farmers. FoodPrint Labs is developing the FoodPrint supply chain platform to simplify and standardise production and operational data collection for smallholder farmers and provide them with access to markets and service. Using FoodPrint, smallholder farmers log their production and operational data via an easy to use WhatsApp chatbot; intermediaries order produce in bulk directly from farmers; and in future

Iraka Biotech (Pty) Ltd is a biotechnology company providing technology solutions that further One-Health Solutions. The company has developed a novel reactor for producing inactivated vaccines. The reactor enables an innovative production method which not only reduces the cost of production of vaccines by (50%) but does not comprimise the qaulity of the vaccines.

GreenFingers Mobile is a digital smallholder farmer management platform that connects smallholder farmers to market and finance. The platform brings real-time data and transparency to all engagements with smallholder farmers and enables organisations to track the change of livelihood of the farmers.

With the vision of being a key enabler of socio-economic development through innovation, KeNIA was set up to develop and manage the national innovation system.

The Kenya National Innovation Agency (KeNIA) is a State Corporation established under the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Act, No. 28 of 2013 under the Ministry of Education. The core mandate of the Agency is to develop and manage the National Innovation System. The Agency is therefore responsible for co-ordination, promotion and regulation of the National Innovation Ecosystem.

Working with partners, KeNIA strengthens

Platform Entrepreneurial Hub exists to upskill entrepreneurs. We focus primarily on skills related to new venture creation and entrepreneurial leadership, and we provide high impact entrepreneurship education. 

Entrepreneurship education provides our students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings, including starting a business, or creating value within a working environment.

Through our accredited skills training courses and programs, we facilitate knowledge transfer that empowers all our students with skills to create value

eLEAF is a high-tech remote sensing company that provides satellite-based data and services for the agricultural, water management and crop index insurance domains. Our product offering is targeted at the entire agri-business value chain ranging from farmers to food processors as well as non-profit organizations, public institutions and governments.

Aselukhanyo is an infant born into aggregation space as of June/July 2018, and has been involved in the aggregation of mainly smallholder farmers into quality conscious food companies especially other upcoming food startups. The company focuses narrowly on the smallholder farmers utilising market access and logistics enablement as services to farmers in need of both.

The company was established as a manufacturing concern into Agri-tech formerly through trying to attain the storage of meat products without refrigeration. The initial product was Frizile Package - storage container made up of

Farmspace is a Agricultural Social Media Company that provide farmers with informational videos on all aspects of their farm using different social media platforms as well as it's own website. Farmspace has over 33 000 followers on Facebook (predominantly commercial farmers) as well as almost 9000 subscribers on Youtube. FarmSpace - We Talk Farmer

Integrated Aerial Systems is a fully licensed drone service provider in South Africa. We provide an end-to-end drone service from flight planning, data collection, processing analytics and crop spraying. We are a company with extensive experience in executing and delivering drone-generated data with thousands of flying hours. Our team brings together expertise from the aviation, agriculture, survey and data sectors. All pilots hold a remote pilot's license from the CAA and are specially trained in advanced aerial data collection and crop spraying.

Modisar Net - A livestock management & tracking solution

Modisar employs “Precision Livestock Management” through a farm management app (available in IOS, Android & Web apps) an IoT livestock tracking solution