Apollo Agriculture Competitors

M-KOPA is a UK-headquartered emerging market fintech that provides affordable smartphone and e-motorbike financing and smartphone embedded digital financial services. With operations in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda, the company has extended over $2 billion in credit to more than 7 million customers. Using an innovative financing model based on daily repayments, M-KOPA provides affordable smartphones embedded with financial services that fit with the cash flow of millions of Every Day Earners who earn their income daily. By leveraging rich payments data and proprietary AI-driven analytics, M-KOPA builds a credit record for each customer, which forms the foundation for a long-term financial relationship for digital loans, affordable data subscriptions, and insurance. The company employs over 3,000 staff and 30,000 sales agents across its African markets. M-KOPA has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies for the past 4 years, twcice recognised as one of the world's top fintechs by CNBC for its impact and growth in financial inclusion, and named twice by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Companies globally.

Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty. The company generated over USD 1 billion in Gross Merchandise Value in 2022 and has over eight million customers.

Founded in 2013, AgroStar is one of India’s foremost AgTech start-ups, working on the mission of Helping Farmers Win. AgroStar is an end-to-end solutions provider that is solving three major problems of farmers - limited access to good quality agri inputs, a gap in knowledge and information about scientific farming practices, and a lack of access to the best markets to sell their produce. Today, AgroStar serves millions of farmers across seven Indian states via an omnichannel approach. We have built India’s largest Agri Advisory Center, a highly engaged digital farmer network on the AgroStar app, with over 7.5 million users and a retail network of 7000+ stores (rapidly expanding). Through the acquisition of INI Farms, a leader in pomegranate, banana and fresh cuts exports from India, AgroStar is helping farmers sell their produce to some of the largest retail chains spread across 25+ countries in the world. Thus, building a full-stack model, solving for farmers’ problems end to end. Our platform, powered by data and technology, helps us to solve the problems faced by farmers at scale, thereby driving us closer to our mission of Helping Farmers Win.