
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.

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.
What they do: Peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing network connecting smallholder farmers via SMS and the internet
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: London; field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, Dar-es-Salaam
Users (reported): ~2.5M registered users (reported in 2021)
Funding to date: $32M (disclosed)
Agricultural information access and marketplace access for smallholder farmers
2015
Agtech
$13,000,000
$11,000,000
Extension to 2019 Series A
“Participation from investors including True Ventures, Octopus Ventures, AgFunder, June Fund, LocalGlobe, Rabo Frontier Ventures, ADV and Norrsken”