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Uganda - based SANDI AI Technologies won the GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize 2026 and received US$50,000 in growth funding for a farmer - finance platform. The company says its AI approach is designed to improve access to finance for farmers across Africa.

Uganda - based SANDI AI Technologies won the 2026 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize and received $50,000 in growth funding for software aimed at improving farmers’ access to finance across Africa. The company said the prize will support product development and expansion into more farmi…

SANDI AI Technologies won the 2026 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize and received $50,000 in growth funding for an AI approach aimed at improving farmers’ access to finance across Africa. The startup’s model focuses on agricultural credit and risk assessment rather than crop production…

Ugandan startup SANDI AI wins the $50,000 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize in Kigali for its AI platform expanding credit access to rural smallholder farmers.

SANDI AI Technologies won the 2026 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize and received $50,000 in growth funding. The company uses artificial intelligence to improve farmers’ access to finance across Africa.

SANDI AI Technologies has won a $50,000 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize at the Africa Food Systems Forum Summit in Kigali, taking the female-led grand prize for an AI system that scores smallholder farmers for loans they can’t get through conventional channels. Nabakka Sandra founded the Ugandan startup. Her thesis is that the collateral test is the […] More

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” — African proverb Africa stands at a demographic crossroads. The African Development Bank projects that Africa will be home to 830 million African youth by 2050. But while roughly 12 million young Africans reach working age each year, the continent’s private sector creates only a few million formal jobs annually. This week’s Africa Food Systems Summit in Kigali is confronting that gap head-on: the GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize is putting more than US$160,000 behind young African agrifood innovators, and one of the summit’s five thematic tracks is built entirely around young people building agritech ventures and startup ecosystems that are changing how the continent grows and sells food. It follows the Africa Prosperity Network‘s own gathering earlier this year—the Africa Prosperity Dialogues in Accra, which was themed Empowering SMEs, Women & Youth in Africa’s Single Market. The Dialogues focused on how young entrepreneurs can take advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which is creating a single market connecting 1.3 billion people and a US$3.4 trillion economy. Participants explored ways to expand regional trade and close the skills gaps that prevent many...

Applications are now open for the 2025 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition, one of Africa’s premier opportunities for young entrepreneurs in the agri-food

  The 2025 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize launches its seventh annual competition today in search for Africa’s most promising young co-founders and founders across Africa who have launched businesses across Africa’s agrifood value chain “from seed to fork”. Judges will be looking for innovative, scalable, and impact-driven agripreneurs (aged 18 to [...] The post Applications Open for the 7th Annual GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition – Africa’s Youth Agrifood Entrepreneurs Invited to Drive Food Systems Transformation with a US$160,000 Prize Pool first appeared on Future Media News. The post Applications Open for the 7th Annual GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition – Africa’s Youth Agrifood Entrepreneurs Invited to Drive Food Systems Transformation with a US$160,000 Prize Pool appeared first on Future Media News.