Kenyan-founded data analytics company Gro Intelligence has raised a US$85 million Series B funding round, by some way the largest funding round ever raised by an African tech startup, to accelerate the growth and global adoption of its platform.

Founded in Nairobi in 2014 and now also with offices in New York, Gro Intelligence is an AI-powered insights company that provides decision-making tools, solutions and analytics to the food, agriculture, and climate economies and their participants.


The Gro Intelligence platform aggregates, normalises, and models complex data to illuminate the inter-relationships between food, climate, trade, agriculture, and macro-economic conditions, integrating over 40,000 data sets and processing north of 650 trillion data points for customer segments that range from governments to financial institutions, agricultural input companies, retailers, food and beverage companies, and various other industry participants. Read more...https://media.getfundedafrica.com/2021/01/12/kenyan-data-analytics-company-gro-intelligence-raises-us85m-series-b-funding-round/