Nigerian venture capital fund Ingressive Capital has invested an undisclosed amount in Accra-based digital farming platform Complete Farmer.
“Complete Farmer started as an effort to honor my father’s legacy after inheriting his farm when he passed away. I wanted to apply my production engineering skills to revive the farm. This moment sparked the current Complete Farmer journey as I realized challenges that were prevalent in the agriculture value chain,” Desmond Koney the Founder of Complete Farmer said.
Founded in 2017, Complete Farmer aims to ensure food security in Ghana while enabling users to earn money by operating remotely. Users sponsor farms and in return earn income after harvest, when Complete Farmer sells its products to buyers.
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Over the past three years, the startup has successfully implemented a crowd farmer model with a total of 7,200 acres of total production serving commodities to Asia, Europe and the rest of the world, however they are not to be misconstrued as a crowdfunding platform rather Africa’s first end-to-end digital agriculture value chain platform. This platform has been built as a three-sided marketplace where Buyers, Growers and Digifarmers.
Charles Rapulu Udoh
Charles Rapulu Udoh is a Lagos-based lawyer who has advised startups across Africa on issues such as startup funding (Venture Capital, Debt financing, private equity, angel investing etc), taxation, strategies, etc. He also has special focus on the protection of business or brands’ intellectual property rights ( such as trademark, patent or design) across Africa and other foreign jurisdictions.
He is well versed on issues of ESG (sustainability), media and entertainment law, corporate finance and governance.
He is also an award-winning writer
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