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Apollo Agriculture
Commercial farming platform
- 501-1000 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 to access 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 product and advice.
Since founding in 2015 the company has acquired an impressive level of funding which speaks to the success of the service but also the need for the service. With its 2024 round of funding, the company is scaling its operations and aiming to serve 400,000 additional farmers.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth
- Benefits package and challenging projects
Company values
- Autonomy
- Honesty
- Transparency
- Respect
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)Previously Senior Product Manager at The Climate Corporation and Comcast Canceller at AirPaper.
Benjamin Njenga
(CCO)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.
Earl St Sauver
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for both MindSumo and The Climate Corporation.