Invested Development

Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

Angani is a Kenyan public cloud computing provider located in Nairobi, Kenya, offering services to the entire East African region.

BRCK is an integrated hardware and software company based in Nairobi, Kenya that designs and engineers a rugged, self-powered, mobile WiFi device which connects people and things to the internet in areas of the world with poor infrastructure. Our vision is a world connected, where the last-mile of internet connectivity is as seamless for someone living in Africa as it is in Europe or the US. Ushahidi is a global organization that empowers people to make serious impact with open source technologies, cross-sector partnerships, and ground-breaking ventures.

iProcure is a Nairobi-based start-up working to optimize the agriculture input supply chain in rural Kenya. iProcure’s web and mobile technology solution improves agriculture retailers’ operations. It lets them manage ordering based on inventory, point of sale activities, and client profiles along with geo-located purchasing patterns, real-time agent performance and transaction analysis, and built-in mobile payments. As a result, retailers can better predict demand with business intelligence data, improve inventory management, and streamline distribution efficiency.

Founded in 2010, Cropin is a pioneer in the Agtech space, having built the first global Intelligent Agriculture Cloud. Cropin's platform enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and AI at scale to make decisions that increase efficiency, scale productivity, and strengthen sustainability. Cropin has worked with 250+ customers and has digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. It has built the world's largest and most diverse farming data insights over a decade, spearheading a global 'Ag-intelligence' movement with a knowledge of 488 crops, and 10000 crop varieties in 56 countries. With its AI/ML platform tailor-made for the agriculture ecosystem, Cropin has computed 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.

RowBot Systems develops and provides a robotic machine that allows farmers to practice in-season nitrogen management. They are a start-up focused on bringing new technology to production agriculture that will help keep nitrogen on the farm, thereby increasing what's known as nitrogen use efficiency. This will save farmers money and will help maximize yields.

Geli, which stands for Growing Energy Labs, Inc., provides software and business solutions to design, automate, and manage energy storage systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform.

OnFarm is a software-as-a-service company that offers a range of farm hardware technologies. The company’s products offer customized dashboards, data management, intuitive displays to help transform data into decisions, advanced charting, enterprise-wide scheduling, phone and email alerts, maps, private communication solutions, and more. OnFarm was founded by Lance Donny in 2012 and is based in Fresno, California.

Village Telco aims to build low-cost community telephone network hardware and software that can be set up in minutes anywhere in the world. Its principal product is the “Mesh Potato,” a low-cost wireless mesh device that you can plug a regular phone into, thus creating a cloud network of connected Mesh Potatoes.

SolarNow provides solar energy and financing solutions in East Africa through its subsidiary. It offers solar home systems, electrical appliances, and power solutions that are designed to fit the needs of rural and urban households, entrepreneurs, and institutions. SolarNow offers household, small business, farming, and corporate solutions. Willem Nolens founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and branch locations in Uganda and Kenya.

Subtech De Mexico S.A. De C.V. provides internet merchant services and uses cloud-based payment systems to provide money transfer services. Subtech De Mexico S.A. De C.V. is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Maana Mobile provides a mobile phone platform and tools to build relationships and more easily conduct business with old and newly formed contacts. The MM platform leverages an overlooked asset for many, their mobile phone contact book, to find relevant connections between users on a transaction basis. The platform not only allows the server to build a “trust“ database for users, but also enables applications to leverage those relationships. As users conduct transactions, valuable knowledge is generated to offer improved results and decision information resources such as alternative methods for assessing credit worthiness.

SlimTrader is an e-commerce and mobile commerce firm. Its platform, MoBiashara, seeks to relieve the burdens associated with everyday transactions in developing countries by providing the missing link to completting these important activities: easy and affordable access. The company has developed the first platform in Africa that allows consumers to purchase services or shop for goods with their mobile devices.

TBT Group is developing and commercializing innovative piezoelectric ceramic materials and products. The company's main focus has been on developing high efficiency energy harvesters for consumer electronic devices that scavenge the wasted energy from ambient vibrations.

Frogtek is a for-profit social venture dedicated to creating business tools for small shopkeepers in emerging markets. It develops its own mobile applications for small shops, designed specifically for customers at the Base-of-the-Pyramid. It also created a platform on the cloud with services for partners like payment providers, market researches, and consumer packaged goods companies. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Ciudad, Mexico.

Promethean Power Systems designs and manufactures rural refrigeration systems for commercial cold-storage applications in off-grid. Dairy processors who have not been able to collect enough quality milk to meet demand, which is growing at 6% annually. Milk producers whose milk gets spoiled because it is not collected in time are also beneficiaries, though they cannot afford the purchase price of the chillers. The system preserves milk at the village level, which reduces spoilage and transportation costs for processors, leading to increased farmer incomes. <BR/> The chillers enable processors to collect milk that has been chilled at the source, which improves the quality of milk and enables them to collect from isolated dairy villages. <BR/> The system is powered by the grid and by a generator when the grid is down, but will in future use a thermal battery backup to store grid energy.

EGG-energy is a for-profit company with a social mission to improve low income and off-grid customers quality of life by offering a convenient, safe, clean, and affordable energy source. The rechargable battery solution has been called the Netflix of batteries.

WindStream Technologies designs, prototypes, and manufactures renewable energy technologies. They provide alternative energy for a mass market by manufacturing wind turbines. Their key product is the turbomill that is used to harness wind energy in urban settings.