Rhea

Today we are excited to be celebrating Rhea's two year anniversary 🎉 Two years ago, Rhea was just getting started off with great hopes and dreams of transforming soil health in Africa. Today, we can say that we are still striving to achieve this dream and inching closer everyday. We are grateful to our customers, employees, partners, and investors for helping us reach this milestone. Cheers to the next coming year, we are excited for what is to come and to have you walk on this journey with us! 🌱

From October 1st to October 10th 2024, Rhea had the pleasure of participating at the Delta40 Venture Studio AgTech Innovation Basecamp and Scale Summit. The Basecamp brought together 33 early-stage ag and food-tech entrepreneurs from across Africa to workshop their product, develop new business models and partnerships, & raise capital to grow. The cumulation of the Basecamp was the Scale Summit, convening the most important actors in the ag space globally and across East Africa, including scaled ventures, investors, corporates, policy makers and ecosystem actors. Rhea's Co-Founder, Soinato Leboo, participated on the panel 'Innovation in Ag- and Food-Tech Across Africa' alongside her impressive co-panelists, Eli Pollak from Apollo Agriculture, Uka Eje from ThriveAgric, Marcela A. Mendoza Suárez from SymbioMatch, and Otaigo Elisha (Msc, Bsc ) from NovFeed. Soinato Leboo also participated in the AgTech Innovation Basecamp Pitch Competition, winning Rhea a spot in the top 5 start-ups winners of the competition. The 10 days were incredibly eye opening, allowing Rhea to foster strong relationships with potential partners, investors, and stakeholders across the agtech ecosystem. With the relationships built and knowledge gained, Rhea is ready for the next level of growth🚀. A special thank you to Lyndsay Holley Handler and the amazing team Delta40 Venture Studio whose hard work made the event possible. And to Novo Nordisk Foundation and BioInnovation Institute for investing in the next generation of agtech start-ups to transform Africa's agriculture space! 🌱 Andrew Julius Bende Flemming Konradsen Afton Halloran, PhD Tyler Karahalios Sidee Dlamini Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies Jasiri4Africa

🌟 Exciting News from the WFP IGNITE Seed Innovation Programme! 🌟 We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of the WFP IGNITE Seed Innovation Programme, which brought together 11 exceptional teams from #Rwanda, #Uganda, #Ethiopia and #Kenya. 🚀 Over the past 12 months, these talented innovators collaborated with qualified facilitators and industry experts to validate their concepts. They improved essential skills in human-centered design, sustainable business development, and pitching, all while fine-tuning their venture ideas. The dedication and creativity displayed by these teams were truly inspiring, and we can’t wait to see the positive impact they will have on #foodsecurity and #sustainability in their communities and beyond. Congratulations to the following teams Hydroponics Gardens Masaka🥗, Nakuru Tubers🥔, Cricket-2-food, DroughtSmart, Umuntu Agrobiotics, Enhancing Smart Agriculture in Rural Africa👨🌾, Rhea, Sauti East Africa, Ablenee Energy Solutions🌾, Enset Processing Technology/Safedish, Green Ethiopia. A huge thank you to everyone involved in this transformative journey! Special thanks to Circle Innovation (Nzisa, Karina, Grace and David) and DTU Skylab (Roberto and Yi-Ting). CARE Danmark Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark Emma-Lee Knape Mohamed Shellimoh Paul Moseti Brenda Gichuki William Holden Bedan Mwathi Joy Matwale Anna Eriksen #WFP #IGNITESeed #Disrupthunger

As we conclude #CustomerServiceWeek, we would like to thank all our customers. We thank you for the support, trust, and feedback that you provides us. We are always here to serve you into growing more sustainably and profitable! 🌱 #customerserviceweek2024 #thankyou

Happy #MazingiraDay! Today there are many environmental issues taking a heavy toll on human lives and the planet. These challenges range from climate change, deforestation, an pollution. As we celebrate this day, Rhea stands on its commitment to environmental conservation. Lets come together to protect the environment and natural resources on the individual, organisational as well as governmental levels. #environmentalconservation

This week's AfricArena Nairobi Climate Tech Summit showcased the remarkable achievements of six African start-ups that emerged victorious from rigorous pitch battles. Over 20 businesses engaged in the green economy participated in the pre-summit AfricArise Founder's Bootcamp, preparing to present their innovative solutions to a panel of investors. The winning start-ups, active across clean tech, climate tech, agri-tech, and circular economy sectors, demonstrated their potential to address Africa’s pressing environmental challenges. Notable winners include MONSAPO from Tunisia, awarded Best Clean-Tech Start-Up for its use of AI in converting used cooking oil into eco-friendly cleaning products, and Rhea from Kenya, recognized as Best Climate-Tech Start-Up for its machine learning-based soil nutrient analysis. The awards also celebrated Geneplus Global Limited as Best Agri-Tech Start-Up for its agricultural biotechnology advancements, and Gjenge_Makers as Best Circular Economy Start-Up for its innovative recycling of plastic waste. Additionally, Flat6Labs Africa Seed Fund earned the Best Investor Pitch Award, and EcoLinks, a South Korean project developer focused on renewable energy, received the Most Promising Entrepreneur Award. Each winning start-up will receive $25,000 in AWS Activate credits and advance to the AfricArena Grand Summit, competing alongside other regional champions. Gerishom Manyengo from the Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) and Henri Zietsman from Amazon Web Services (AWS) Startups highlighted the significant impact of these innovations in shaping Africa’s tech landscape and capturing investment opportunities. #ClimateTech #CleanTech #AgriTech #CircularEconomy #Innovation #AfricanStartups #AfricArena #GreenEconomy #SustainableDevelopment #TechInnovation To read more: https://zurl.co/Q6sp

We are excited to have participated at the AfricArena Nairobi Summit Pitch Challenge and won Best Start-Up in the '#ClimateTech' category! Rhea's Co-Founder, Soinato Leboo, showcased Rhea's innovative soil health solutions for mitigating the negative effects of climate change and for combating food insecurity in Africa. Next stop, the AfricArena Grand Summit in Cape Town in December 🚀 Watch this space, the future of climate-tech is bright and exciting. As Rhea, we will continue to play our role in empowering small-holder farmers, improving sustainable food production, and promoting environmental conservation. A special thanks to Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups (SAIS) for their support. 🌱 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH AWS Startups Kenya Climate Innovation Center (KCIC) Methys Group AfricArise #climatechange #soilhealth #innovation #conservationagriculture #healthysoils #foodsecurity Christine Namara Fares Seaidi Sabrine Chennaoui Dan Mabbyalas Nafisah Abrahams Christophe Viarnaud

Join us at the AGRA Africa Food Systems Forum 2024! The Forum will be held from 2nd to 6th September in Kigali, Rwanda. It will bring together key stakeholders in Africa’s food systems to discuss critical issues like seed sector reform, private sector investment in nutrition, agricultural mechanization, and fertilizer and soil health. As a soil health focused start-up, we are excited to meet stakeholders across Africa's food system to learn and engage. The event started yesterday with a bang with Rhea's CEO, Priscilla W., participating as a panelist under the 'Innovation for African Soil Health' Side Event and the launch of the #Weforum 'Scaling Technology adoption for Soil Health: A Focus on Africa_2024' white paper. We hope to see you there! #AFSForum2024 #Africanfoodsystems #soilhealth #conservationagriculture #GenerationAfrica Ann Maina Robert Asugre Dr. GOUDIAN GWADEMBA (PhD.) Simone Sala Federico Ronca International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) Manoj Kaushal

Join us at the AfricArena Nairobi Summit 2024! As one of 20+ top startups, we are excited to be part of the Pitch Challenge (Climate Tech) and to showcase the innovative solutions and impact Rhea is providing in the agriculture and climate space. By empowering smallholder farmers with real-time results and recommendations, Rhea facilitates precise fertilizer use, mitigating the environmental impact of excessive and inefficient application, and fostering long-term food security Hope to see you there! 🌱 Soinato Leboo Amazon Web Services (AWS) Startups, Silicon Overdrive, Scaling digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups (SAIS) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH #climatetech #agritech #conservationagriculture #innovation #climatemitigation #soilhealth #soilfertility #biodiversity

Join us this Wednesday, 31st July, for a exciting webinar where Rhea's CEO, Priscilla W., discusses innovation and technology in the Agri-tech space. Register now with the link below! https://lnkd.in/diP4SJwF #Innovation #agriculture #soilhealth #AI #machinelearning #IoT