2022 AgriPitch competition Winners
Winners
Early Start Ups
Rank | Company name | Country | Founder/ CEO | Cash Award | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winner |
Etoduma SARL
|
Cote d'Ivoire |
Koffi Amani François Xavier
|
25,000 USD | |
1st Runner up |
Agrisiti (Maatalous Nasah)
|
Nigeria |
Eneyi Oshi
|
15,000 USD | |
2nd Runner up |
Farmhut Africa Private Limited
|
Zimbabwe |
Ryan Katayi
|
Women Owned / Led Businesses
Rank | Company name | Country | Founder/ CEO | Cash Award | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winner |
Contanna
|
Senegal |
Adja Sembene Fall
|
25,000 USD | |
1st Runner up |
Legendary Foods Ltd
|
Ghana |
Shobhita Soor
|
15,000 USD | |
2nd Runner up |
ChemChemAgro
|
Congo |
Daniella Ushindi
|
Mature Start Ups
Rank | Company name | Country | Founder/ CEO | Cash Award | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Winner |
Minagro Group
|
Togo |
Ouro-Agoro Amina Azia
|
40,000 USD | |
1st Runner up |
Faso Elevage
|
Burkina Faso |
Faïçal Palenfo
|
20,000 USD | |
2nd Runner up |
TIC Agrobusiness
|
Bénin |
Donald Tchaou
|
Finalists
Early Start Ups
Agrisiti (Maatalous Nasah)
Country: Nigeria
Farmhut Africa Private Limited
Country: Zimbabwe
Etoduma SARL
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
Women Owned / Led Businesses
ChemChemAgro
Country: DRC
Contanna
Country: Senegal
Legendary Foods Ltd
Country: Ghana
Mature Start Ups
Faso Elevage
Country: Burkina Faso
TIC Agrobusiness
Country: Benin
Minagro Group
Country: Togo
Top 25 Agripreneurs
Faso Elevage
Category: Mature Start up
Country: Burkina Faso
Bilanga Solutions
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: DRC
AfriCereal Group
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Benin
Duketrah Fisheries
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Nigeria
TIC Agrobusiness
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Benin
MiAgro Shoppers Limited
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Uganda
World Jolly Generation Engineering and Trading ( WJGET SARL)
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Benin
Minagro Group
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Togo
Farmer Lifeline Technologies
Category: Mature Start Up
Country: Kenya
TOMAVè AgriTech
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Gabon
Mvutu
Category: Early Start Up
Country: DRC
FulltechCongo
Category: Early Start Up
Country: DRC
Agrisiti (Maatalous Nasah)
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Nigeria
Eco-Protein
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Malawi
Sediba
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Botswana
Solaristique Nigeria Limited
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Nigeria
Osomobegbe Global Ventures Limited
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Nigeria
Farmhut Africa Private Limited
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Zimbabwe
Etoduma SARL
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
FarmWallet Limited
Category: Early Start Up
Country: Ghana
ChemChemAgro
Category: Women Owned / Led
Country: DRC
Contanna
Category: Women Owned / Led
Country: Senegal
Amra Suarl ( vet info)
Category: Women Owned / Led
Country: Senegal
Mgom'mera Seed investments
Category: Women Owned / Led
Country: Malawi
Legendary Foods Ltd
Category: Women Owned / Led
Country: Ghana
Mvutu
Company overview
Mvutu is a Congolese platform that connects farmers and vendors to ensure a fair and reliable food supply network. Leveraging its network and extensive industry experience, Mvutu buys from farmers and suppliers at fair market prices and ships the produce to thousands of street vendors in the cities of Congo and Kinshasa. To further strengthen the ecosystem, Mvutu offers microloans and technical assistance to farmers, distributors.
FASO ELEVAGE
Bilanga Solutions
Company overview
Bilanga is a digital platform allowing small farmers to have access to markets and to better sell their products, from organic and sustainable agriculture, to agri-food companies and urban consumers who benefit from the best prices and a transparent procurement process. Our end-to-end process connects farmers to commercial fresh produce retailers in Kinshasa and across the DR Congo. The BILANGA platform facilitates transactions and protects payments on behalf of farmers, resulting in increased transparency and improved cash flow.
AfriCereal Group
Company overview
AfriCereal Group is a technology company that offers mechanization of agricultural operations, bringing together players in the value chains and management of agricultural equipment and infrastructure. Through its services, the company simplifies agricultural operations, contributes to the reduction of post-harvest losses and improves the production and income of small producers. Thus, small producers have access to affordable agricultural machinery to increase their productivity.
Duketrah Fisheries
Company overview
Duketrah Fisheries is an Agribusiness that is into fish production and value addition (through processing and packaging). With the goal of providing safe, healthy and nutritious fish products to a large population of people, we sustainably produce and process fish using better aquaculture practices and improved processing methods as well as packaging materials which are of reduced hazard to the consumer and processors health as well as the safety of the environment.
Contanna
Company overview
Contanna is a fair trade tea bar chain that promotes African roots by offering hot and iced drinks made from plantations from our lands.
Minagro Group
Company overview
Minagro supports agribusinesses by proposing greener solutions to improve the global impact of the
agricultural sector. Minagro develops innovative products and solutions for crop care applications based
on sustainable raw materials leveraging the strengths of the MINAFIN Group in green and fine chemicals.
Minagro is a supplier of ingredients and innovative solutions with a specific focus on agricultural
input markets. We develop products and provide application support.
FulltechCongo
Company overview
FulltechCongo, Full Technologies is a Congolese company specialized in:
1. Electrical installation and repair2. Renewable energy :
* Installation of photovoltaic solar panels
* Design of solar energy storage and optimization systems
3. Planning and maintenance of green spaces
4. Car & property cleaning
* Fixed car cleaning (our station)
* Mobile car cleaning (at your home)
* Cleaning building, public spaces, stained glass, pavement, tiles.
ChemChemAgro
Company overview
ChemChemAgro has as its activity:
manufacturing of hives, aid for the harvesting and raising of bees (already operational), production,
processing, marketing of honey and honey by-products (in the development yard).
ChemChemAgro also trains young people and farmers in beekeeping.
Product: High quality table honey and honey jams.
World Jolly Generation Engineering and Trading ( WJGET SARL)
Company overview
The World Jolly Generation Engineering and Trading Society trains in the field of renewable energy.
Three months theoretical and practical training of photovoltaic technician and 3 months practical
internship in the company and partner companies in the field.
It also gives opportunity to prepare for ECOWA certification and get recognized certification in all 16
ECOWA countries.
Agrisiti (Maatalous Nasah)
Company overview
Agrisiti (Maatalous Nasah) is a smart farming company promoting youth involvement in Agriculture by designing smart urban farming systems for schools and households, while facilitating sustainable food production trainings using an endorsed digital course curriculum delivered in-class and virtually.
Eco-Protein
Company overview
Eco-Protein is an insect technology startup that transforms organic food waste into high value insect protein for the animal feed industry by using the black soldier fly insect as a recycling agent.
Mgom'mera Seed investments
Company overview
Mgom’mera produces drought tolerant, high yielding and nutrient dense varieties of maize and legumes.
As the Malawian agricultural sector seeks to combat effects of climate change and drought, Mgom’mera
aims to tackle this issue from seed technology and modern innovations in irrigation farming.
MiAgro Shoppers Limited
Company overview
MiAgro Shoppers enterprise is an e-commerce digital shopping platform based in Kampala, Uganda, with supporting electronnic tools (Android application 'MiAgro App' on Playstore/Applestore and e-commerce website 'MiAgro Shoppers') offering a range of products from agricultural groceries, gas accessories, supermarket items, wines & spirits & kitchenware delivered to your doorstep.
Solaristique Nigeria Limited
Company overview
Solaristique Nigeria is a recycling company that is focused on making sustainable clean energy and
environment-friendly solutions targeted at BoP households, clinics, and farmers in rural and peri-urban
communities to SMEs , Hospitals, Big corporations and Households in urban areas. We aim to make the
greatest possible global impact in addressing the environmental issues associated wastes.
Our Core sectors are WASTE COLLECTION, COLD STORAGE, and ALTERNATIVE BUILDING MATERIALS.
Osomobegbe Global Ventures Limited
Company overview
Osomobegbe Global Ventures Limited is a company that is into sales of solar dryers and rendering of solar drying services to smallholder farmers of eprishable vegetable products so as to enable them mitigate post harvest losses on their products. We are also into women empowerment in entrepreneurship and agriculture. We are into biofuel production and solar PV systems installation across Nigeria
Farmhut Africa Private Limited
Company overview
Farmhut shortens the agro supply value chan by aggregating markets, connecting farmers, restaurants, retailers and vendors together. The food-system is improved due to improved operations of smallholder farmers in the form of lower post-harvest losses, informed decisions, and greater farmer resilience to climate and financial shocks.
Etoduma SARL
Company overview
Etoduma SARL is an agri-food company specialises in the processing of plantain, sweet potato into chips. It also ensures the distribution of these chips in the shelves of supermarkets and large partner shops, university campuses primary and secondary schools and bus stations.