Nigerian agritech startup Crop2Cash wins Seedstars Lagos

Crop2Cash, an agritech startup that provides smallholder farmers with access to finance and markets, has won this year’s Seedstars Lagos pitching event.

The event was held last Friday (8 October) at the Seedspace Growthlab in Lagos.

The Ibadan-based startup was founded in 2017 by Emem Essien, Michael Ogundare and Seyi Alabi.

The startup has developed a fintech solution that helps smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria to receive digital payments.

In addition, Crop2Cash has also developed supply chain platform Supplybase which helps farmers manage their relationships with suppliers.

Crop2Cash will now represent Nigeria at the Seedstars Africa Summit

Crop2Cash will now represent Nigeria at the Seedstars Africa Summit — which will be held in Johannesburg next month — where it will get a chance to win a spot to pitch for $500 000 in equity funding at the Seedstars Summit in Switzerland.

In all, 11 startups were selected to pitch at the event. They include publishing platform Publiseer, edtech Edusko, healthtech Doctoora, merchandise branding company Lucy.ng and software-as-a-service startup Pronob.

Ecommerce startups Alerzo, Foodlocker, One Kiosk Africa and Traders of Africa also pitched at the event.

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Featured image: Representatives of Crop2Cash and Traders of Africa at Seedstars Lagos ( Traders of Africa via Twitter)