AGRITECH FOUNDERS DIARY

Meet Maryna Kuzmenko, a visionary agritech leader. She is the co-founder of the UK-based company, Petiole Pro. With Petiole Pro, Maryna is revolutionizing plant phenotyping through AI-powered smartphone tools for accurate plant assessment. Maryna worked for over five years in governmental organizations in Ukraine and served as an assistant to Member of Parliament, focusing on digitalization in far...

Meet Luis Escobedo, founder of Agrobyte, an innovative company dedicated to integrating drones, sensors, and digital agriculture techniques into farming so as to optimize crop yield and support farmers in their quest for efficiency and sustainability. In order to make Agrobyte more accessible, Luis acquired NJ Drone Academy (now Byte Drone Centre); a robust platform to offer comprehensive drone tr...

Meet Christine Gould, founder and CEO of Thought For Food. In her previous roles, Christine has led external affairs, public policy, and corporate affairs functions for leading multinationals, fast-growing startups, think tanks, and industry associations. Her work has been covered by The Economist, MIT Tech Review, Forbes, and the Financial Times. She was recently appointed by the UN Deputy Secret...

Meet Shadrack Kubyane, co-founder of eFAMA App, an app that connects farmers of fresh agro products directly to commercial buyers and consumers. As usual, Shadrack shared his agritech story with us, lessons learned and victories earned.

Meet Linda Ekweogu, co-founder of Agrolinka, a mobile app that connects farmers and food processors to consumers. She ventured into the agritech space in 2020 when she decided to digitize the process of moving food from farms directly to consumers. Despite Agrolinka being young agritech company founded Q4 2020, it currently seerve over 2000 users. In this interview, Linda shared with us her inspir...

Meet Mr Elisha Caleb, an agritech innovator, CEO of Agrotech Plus LTD, a Kenya based Cooling as a Service (CaaS) for smallholder farmers, retailers and wholesalers of horticultural produce. Through Agrotech Plus LTD, Elisha mitigates food spoilage by deploying and operating a robust off-the-grid cold storage. By improving access to cooling services and subsequently increasing the income of farmers...

Meet Ojo Endurance Peter, an Israel University Scholar who consulted for the Taraba State Government of Nigeria in a state wide project. Amongst other feats, he also developed an agro production template for an FCMB Nigeria project. In 2020, he founded Marketprice Vegetables Farms LTD, a vegetable production company using state of the art indigenous greenhouse high tunnels to grow vegetables for t...

Meet Dr. Balaji Vasudevan, an AgroBioscience Chief Scientist at a top VC firm based in Africa. With over 20 years of agtech experience in industry and academia combined, he is driven by a desire to help companies bring break-through agri-food technologies to market that create a better food and agriculture eco-system. He is also an advisor/science consultant/SAB member for global agri-foodtech com...

Meet Saumya Rawat, the CEO of EkoSight, an Agritech company focused on making soil testing highly accurate, accessible, affordable and sustainable for end users. Aside providing precise fertilizer recommendation for agriculturists, EkoSight has also developed Soil Doctor, a fertilizer recommendation device that solves the problem of complex, delayed and costly soil testing processes. In this inter...

Meet Christina Aton Villa, a passionate, green tech ecosystem, multi-cultural agri-food leader. She is the CEO and co-founder of Agrosymbiose, a service platform that maximizes the value of agricultural natural capital. In this interview she shared her entrepreneurship journey, her motivation and what inspired her to start her agritech business.

Meet Roland de Bruijn, the CEO of Agrisim, an agricultural decision support system that uses big-data, technology and algorithms to optimize farm ouputs. In this interview, Ronald de Bruijn, shared his story, career, experience and lesson learnt while building Agrisim.

Meet Mr. Aderinola Amole, the Co-Founder of Farmsquare Nigeria, a leading online agricultural platform offering affordable and quality farm inputs. In 2021, Mr. Amole won over 2 Million Naira in the Wema Bank Hackaholic 2.0 Agritech Bootcamp. He is an alum of Venture Building Start-up program by Engenesis. He intends to make his Agritech firm the leading Agricultural supply-chain institution in Af...

Femi Adekoya, popularly known as the Flyingfarmer is an AgTech professional and experienced in the agricultural & horticultural industry with a decade of experience in agricultural innovations and precision technologies. He is very passionate about agricultural development, agricultural technology, environmental sustainability, value-based leadership, food security, and community development....

Matylda Szyrle is the CEO of Listny Cud / Future Friendly Farm, one of the first vertical farms in Poland. The farm grows organic microgreens and herbs in various formats, ranging from small vertical farms for offices and schools to industrial vertical farms. Listny Cud aims to sustainably produce good food and strengthen food security in the face of the looming climate crisis.  Matylda's List...

Meet Farmer Samson Ogbole, the Innovator and Team Lead at Soilless Farm Lab, an AgriTech Firm deploying the use of protected technology (commonly called greenhouse farming) with soilless farming technology (hydroponics and aquaponics) for the growing of crops. They trained over 20,000 youth in Nigeria. Soilless Farm Lab also deploy the use of artificial intelligence in their irrigation for precisi...