Apollo Agriculture
Commercial farming platform
- 1001+ employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- Agriculture
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Automation
- Grachtengordel-Zuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Company mission
To help farmers transition to commercial farming by providing the products, services, and financing they need to maximise their profits.
Our take
Agriculture covers roughly half of Kenya’s territory, and 60% of Africa’s population are smallholder farmers. Many of these farmers face a plethora of challenges like difficulty accessing financing and insurance - which results in low productivity.
Apollo Agriculture is an Agtech company that wants to support these small-scale farmers to help maximise their profits. Through agronomic machine learning, remote sensing and mobile phones Apollo Agriculture supports farmers in finding financing, quality farm products and advice.
Since founding in 2015 the company has acquired an impressive level of funding which speaks to the success of the service, and also the need for it. The company continues to use this funding to scale operations in order to serve even more farmers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2024
$10m
LATE VC
Nov 2023
$7m
LATE VC
Total funding: $68.7m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Eli Pollak
(CEO & Co-founder)Previously Senior Product Manager at The Climate Corporation and Comcast Canceller at AirPaper.
Benjamin Njenga
(CCO & Co-founder)Previously worked as a Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. Went on to work through several roles at ACRE Africa, most recently as Deputy MD and Commericial Director.