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AgriTech Forward Secures $12M Series A to Scale Agri-Finance Platform Across West AfricaPress Release
·AgriTech Forward

AgriTech Forward Secures $12M Series A to Scale Agri-Finance Platform Across West Africa

The raise will accelerate deployment of AgriTech Forward's digital commodity trading and embedded finance infrastructure across Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire.

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African Development Bank Partners with AgriTech Forward for Smallholder Finance InitiativePartnership
·AfDB Newsroom

African Development Bank Partners with AgriTech Forward for Smallholder Finance Initiative

A landmark MOU with the African Development Bank will channel $8M in blended finance to smallholder cooperatives using AgriTech Forward's digital verification layer.

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AI-Powered Agronomic Intelligence Now Available to 50,000 Farmers Across West AfricaNews
·AgriTech Magazine

AI-Powered Agronomic Intelligence Now Available to 50,000 Farmers Across West Africa

AgriTech Forward's real-time advisory platform has crossed the 50,000-farmer milestone, delivering soil health alerts, yield forecasts, and market pricing to mobile devices.

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AgriTech Forward Named Among Top 10 Global Agri-Tech Innovations of 2025Press Release
·World Agri-Tech Summit

AgriTech Forward Named Among Top 10 Global Agri-Tech Innovations of 2025

The World Agri-Tech Summit recognized AgriTech Forward's integrated digital trade stack as one of the most impactful emerging-market agricultural innovations of the year.

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Ghana Cocoa Board Signs MOU with AgriTech Forward for National Digital Traceability ProgramPartnership
·Ghana Cocoa Board

Ghana Cocoa Board Signs MOU with AgriTech Forward for National Digital Traceability Program

The partnership will embed AgriTech Forward's blockchain-backed traceability tools into Ghana's cocoa supply chain, covering 800,000 registered farmers.

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AgriTech Forward Crosses $100M in Facilitated Commodity TradesNews
·Reuters Africa

AgriTech Forward Crosses $100M in Facilitated Commodity Trades

The platform's cumulative facilitated trade volume has surpassed $100M, underscoring growing adoption among millers, brokers, and cooperative aggregators.

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USAID Awards AgriTech Forward Grant to Expand Smallholder Digital Inclusion ProgramPartnership
·USAID

USAID Awards AgriTech Forward Grant to Expand Smallholder Digital Inclusion Program

A $3.2M USAID Feed the Future grant will expand AgriTech Forward's digital onboarding program for smallholder farmers across Senegal and Mali.

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CEO Darnell Gardner Jr. on Building Infrastructure for the Next Billion FarmersNews
·TechCabal

CEO Darnell Gardner Jr. on Building Infrastructure for the Next Billion Farmers

In an exclusive interview, AgriTech Forward's CEO discusses the organization's dual PBC-nonprofit structure and vision for a fully digitized African agricultural value chain.

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AgriTech Forward was founded on one conviction: the barriers to fair agricultural trade are infrastructure problems, not capital problems.

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