Best Crop Tech Companies in Nairobi, Kenya
The 59 best Crop Tech companies in Nairobi, Kenya in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Apollo Agriculture.
Our analysis of 100 Crop Tech companies
$8.2b in tracked funding; 87% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Crop Tech companies in Nairobi
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AgriTech Analytics Provider of precision farming services | — | — | Funding Raised | Maryanne Gichanga Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 2 | Asepsis Growers and suppliers of multi-category agricultural inputs | — | — | Unfunded | Damaris Kwamboka CEO | — | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+40 | — |
| 3 | CapAGRI Online platform providing finance for smallholder farmers | — | — | Deadpooled | Steve Muema Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Crowdy Agritech Online crowdfunding platform to invest in agriculture businesses | — | — | Deadpooled | Peter Wafula Founder & CEO | — | — | 1 launch |
| 5 | Divine Groceries Online retailer of fruits and vegetables | — | — | Deadpooled | Diana Mukiri Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 6 | farmdrive FarmDrive applies data science to build software and credit models that increases access to meaningful… | — | — | Private | — | 4 | — | — |
| 7 | Farmer Lifeline Provider of AI-powered devices for crop pest and disease detection | — | — | Unfunded | Esther Kimani Founder and Managing Director | — | — | — |
| 8 | Farmersbay Online platform for marketing farm produce | — | — | Deadpooled | George Mwangi Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in Nairobi
#1
Series B · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 570 employees$67.8Mraised▾
Providing financing, inputs, training, and insurance to empower small-scale farmers. This is a technology company focused on revolutionizing farming and fostering sustainable livelihoods. It offers farmers comprehensive support, from seed to sale, including financing solutions and access to quality farming inputs. The company utilizes machine learning credit models to provide instant credit decisions, enabling farmers to purchase essential products through a digital store network. It partners with agrodealers to ensure proximity to farmers and provides agricultural training and insurance to protect investments. The goal is to transform subsistence farming into commercial farming, empowering farmers to scale successful agribusinesses and ensure food security. This is achieved through innovative solutions, redefining investment opportunities and driving positive social impact within the agricultural sector.
- May 2026Series B$2.5M
- Apr 2024Grant (prize money)—
- Nov 2023Series B$10M
- Feb 2022Series B$40M
#2
Series B · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2012 · 191 employees$41.5Mraised▾
Solar irrigation solutions empowering smallholder farmers with sustainable technology and financial access. The company addresses the challenges faced by smallholder farmers by providing reliable access to water, irrigation, lighting, and mobile charging through off-grid solar technology. They offer solar irrigation pump packages that include consultation, installation, training, and customer support. The company's mission is to develop and commercialize life-changing technologies that solve the daily challenges of smallholder farming households, promoting sustainable agriculture and economic empowerment. They provide a Pay-As-You-Grow option with flexible monthly installments. The company utilizes IoT-enabled solar irrigation equipment bundled with tailored advice and generates unique intelligence around usage/needs. The company claims carbon credits from the sale of solar pumps used for irrigation.
- Feb 2025Series B$4M
- Apr 2024Series B$27.5M
- Sep 2023Series A—
- Feb 2021Conventional Debt$11M
#3
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2019 · 38 employees$500Kraised▾
Distributor of fruits and storage services
- Apr 2026Conventional Debt$500K
- Feb 2023Seed—
#4
Funding Raised · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2014 · 12 employees$400Kraised▾
Developer of cloud and AI-based solutions for crop farming efficiency improvement. Its product portfolio includes sensor-enabled irrigation drip systems with environmental monitoring capabilities, and an app for remote monitoring of farms and management of fertigation and irrigation.
- Oct 2025Grant (prize money)$300K
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
#5
Series B · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2013 · 155 employees$17.2Mraised▾
Provider of a data-driven agricultural supply chain platform. The platform provides business intelligence and data-driven stock management solutions to optimize farm input distribution and reduce costs for farmers in Africa, utilizing technology to streamline agricultural inputs delivery to rural areas.
- Aug 2022Series B$9M
- Aug 2022Conventional Debt$1.2M
- Mar 2022Conventional Debt$445.4K
- Sep 2017Seed$953K
#6
Series A · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 18 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Online marketplace connecting farmers and agricultural product dealers. It is a social enterprise that provides a one-stop online-to-offline. The platform that connects village-level farmers to agri-business information, quality inputs, and credible agriculture services in their local communities to ensure a sustainable increase in farm production.
- Jan 2024Conventional Debt$2M
- Jan 2024Series A$1.7M
- Nov 2021Seed$1.1M
#7
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017 · 5 employees$135Kraised▾
Provider of agricultural solutions. They offer wide range of services such as farmer medical insurance,farmer management platform,geo mapping,remote extension services and much more.
- Mar 2024Seed$135K
#8
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2012 · 33 employees$973.7Kraised▾
Futurepump designs develop and manufacture solar-powered, compact designed, and portable irrigation pumps for small-scale farmers in Africa. Though focused on Kenya for now, it aims to cover the whole population of one-acre farmers across the world.
- Mar 2021Seed$973.7K
#9
Series A · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 1999 · 45 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Virtual City offers Agrimanagr, an affordable mobile data management service marketed to agricultural cooperatives and processors that tracks agricultural output from farmer to processor, coordinates mobile payment to farmers, and facilitates extension services such as veterinary visits and agricultural input management. Also, AgriManagr, automates purchases and strengthens relationships between varios supply chain stakeholders.
#10
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2016 · 36 employees$652Kraised▾
Tulaa provides an online marketplace for loans and commerce platform for rural farmers. It enables the farmers to purchase inputs, receive tailored agronomic advice, and market the crops at harvest time. It markets the crops by estimating the expected volume farmers will produce and brokers the sale of the product with buyers.
- Mar 2019Seed$25K
- Jul 2018Seed$627K
- 2017Grant (prize money)—
#11
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2017$250Kraised▾
Farmshine is an online marketplace for agricultural products. The platform connects the farmers with suppliers and service providers for improving traceability, market efficiency, pooled purchasing, and more.
- Dec 2019Seed$250K
#12
Seed · Nairobi, Nairobi County · founded 2010$235Kraised▾
MFarm is a digital platform offering market price information for various agri commodities, weather data and also provides a listing platform for farmers to sell their agri produce and connect with other farmers and agribusinesses. The information service is available on a subscription basis.
- Jun 2014Seed—
- Oct 2013Seed$235K
- 2010Seed—
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How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in Kenya
A read on the academic research around Precision Agriculture — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 174 Kenya-affiliated papers.
- International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology23
- Ministry of Agriculture19
- International Potato Center15
- Ministry of Education13
- International Center for Tropical Agriculture11
- Software deployment3
- Context (archaeology)3
- Random forest2
- Plant disease2
- Benchmarking1
- Sustainability4→8
- Hyperspectral imaging3→6
- Vegetation (pathology)5→8
- Productivity3→5
- Crop2→4
- Fertilizer1→4
Where precision agriculture is researched across Kenya
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.