Wefarm

United Kingdom
Newdigate, England, United Kingdom, W1B 3HH

Company profile

Wefarm company profile

Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS. Since its founding in 2015, Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.

Business identity

Operating status
Closed
Company type
For Profit
Employee range
51-100 employees
Revenue range
$1M-$10M
Founded
2015-01-29

Headquarters

Postal code
W1B 3HH
Country code
GB
Continent
Europe

Capital profile

Funding and company signals

Funding stage
Early Stage Venture
Funding rounds
11
Total equity funding
$30.6M
Last funding
Series A / $11M / 2021-03-09
Last equity funding
Series A / $11M
Investors
21
Lead investors
8
Founders
1
Articles
35
Closed on
2023-11-23

Founders and investors

Founders

Kenny Ewan

Lead investors

Chivas VentureGoogle.orgInnovate UKJune FundLocalGlobeMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyOctopus VenturesTrue Ventures

Investors

Google.orgLocalGlobeNorrsken VCOctopus VenturesWayra