AGROCENTA
AgroCenta was founded by two ex-esoko employees, Francis Obirikorang and Michael K. Ocansey in 2015 to improve the agricultural value chain in Ghana. Two critical problems within the value chain, which are the lack of an access to market for smallholder farmers in the rural areas, which subjected them to activities of exploitative, buying from middlemen and the lack of a coordinated truck delivery system to cart their commodities from farms to markets to sell. AgroCenta’s idea is to solve the... se age-old problems by introducing an online sales platform that connected smallholder farmers directly to an online market, which has wider geographic size, to sell their commodities. The end result? Exploitative buying was reduced to the barest minimum since farmers were in control of selling their commodities at prices that were favorable to them. Once a farmer gets offers from interested buyers, the problem of logistics and transportation were sorted using AgroCenta’s patent TrucKR solution that allowed the smallholder farmer in any remote village in Ghana access trucks at the click of a button. You can call it the uber for trucks. AgroCenta is changing the very lives of smallholder farmers by using technology to solve problems they encounter in agriculture.
AGROCENTA
Industry:
E-Commerce Farmers Market Logistics
Founded:
2016-08-17
Address:
Port Louis, Port Louis, Mauritius
Country:
Mauritius
Website Url:
http://www.agrocenta.com
Total Employee:
11+
Status:
Active
Email Addresses:
[email protected]
Total Funding:
2.19 M USD
Technology used in webpage:
SSL By Default LetsEncrypt Domain Not Resolving Nginx Google Maps Cloudflare JS CDN JS Google Maps API Ubuntu
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Investors List
Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator
Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator investment in Non Equity Assistance - AgroCenta
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK
Foreign & Commonwealth Office - UK investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
AV Ventures
AV Ventures investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
Rabo Foundation
Rabo Foundation investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
Shell Foundation
Shell Foundation investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
Seedstars
Seedstars investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator
GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator investment in Grant - AgroCenta
Seedstars
Seedstars investment in Seed Round - AgroCenta
Newest Events participated
Participated in TechCrunch Battlefield Africa 2017
on 2017-10-11 as contestant
Official Site Inspections
http://www.agrocenta.com
- Host name: sites.agrocenta
- IP address: 137.184.180.222
- Location: New York United States
- Latitude: 40.7157
- Longitude: -74
- Metro Code: 501
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Postal: 10013
