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The 30-Centimeter Pipe That Made Rice Visible
Mitti Labs did not invent a better way to irrigate rice. It built the field operation, measurement system and market that could make an old idea travel across thousands of tiny farms.
HOPin Academy Is Building a Reason to Stay in Northern Ghana
In Tamale, HOPin Academy puts business coaching, digital skills and a footballer’s Plan B within reach. Its bet: young people should be able to build a future without leaving home to find one.
LakeHub is building a tech career that starts in Kisumu
It began with Saturday meetups and discounted tea. Now LakeHub connects young Kenyans to software training, employers and a new set of problems out on the farm.
The Farm App Rejected at the Gate - Then Trusted With 22 Million Animals
AgriWebb turned the stockman's pocket notebook into an offline-first operating system for cattle and sheep. Its first hoped-for buyer almost walked away - and taught the founders why farm software wins on trust before data.
Koltiva
Koltiva is a Swiss-Indonesian agritech and climate-tech company that makes agricultural supply chains traceable, inclusive, and climate-smart. Through its KoltiTrace software platform and KoltiSkills field services, it connects smallholder producers to global brands with seed-to-table traceability, farm mapping, deforestation and EUDR compliance, carbon assessments, and digital finance. Founded in 2013 and led by co-founder and CEO Manfred Borer, Koltiva reports work with over 2 million registered producers across dozens of commodities and more than 90 countries.
Alex Tyink
Alex Tyink is the founder and CEO of Fork Farms, a Green Bay, Wisconsin food-access technology company behind the Flex Farm, a mobile indoor hydroponic system that grows up to 25 pounds of leafy greens a month in nine square feet. A trained opera singer from Appleton who studied voice at Northwestern, he traded a New York vocal-performance career for urban farming after volunteering at a Brooklyn rooftop garden in 2010. Fork Farms now works with more than 5,000 schools, hospitals, food pantries and companies across all 50 states and dozens of countries, and closed a $2 million Series A in 2021.
Fork Farms
Fork Farms is a mission-first agriculture technology company in Green Bay, Wisconsin that builds self-contained indoor vertical hydroponic systems - led by the Flex Farm - paired with a digital platform (Farmative) and K-12 curriculum. Its technology lets schools, hospitals, nonprofits, food pantries, businesses and homes grow hundreds of pounds of fresh produce per year on-site using a fraction of the water and land of conventional agriculture, turning food access into something anyone can do indoors.