Agriarche, co-founded by Deina Mayaki, has built a digital infrastructure to connect fragmented segments of Nigeria’s agricultural value chain.

Its flagship platform, Kasuwa, links smallholder farmers, aggregation hubs, and industrial buyers while delivering market intelligence, weather forecasting, and demand analytics in real time.

Currently, Kasuwa directly serves over 12,000 farmers and 3,050 aggregators primarily in northern Nigeria, and has facilitated more than 50,000 tonnes of commodity trade valued at over US$12 million.

While its domestic operations are substantial, Agriarche is also exploring global markets.After pilot export shipments of commodities like honey, beans, and hibiscus to Canada and Brazil, the company expanded its international trade modules in 2025.

Simultaneously, through its consumer-oriented brand Mitera, Agriarche is entering Nigeria’s processed foods market by collaborating with local processors and leveraging underutilized mills and factories.

The investment by Sahara Impact Ventures comes at a time when agtech and climate-smart agriculture are drawing increasing attention from African impact investors.

Sahara itself is a female-led fund focused on climate and gender-sensitive investing, with a mandate to support tech-enabled African SMEs.

Although the precise size of the funding round has not been disclosed, it is understood that Sahara’s capital injection into Agriarche was announced on September 12, 2025.

This new backing complements earlier support for Agriarche, such as a US$500,000 working capital loan from Sahel Capital’s SEFAA fund aimed at strengthening linkages between smallholder farmers and FMCG buyers.

In remarks to media, Deina Mayaki has emphasized that the lack of structured finance and efficient market access remains a severe bottleneck for agricultural enterprises across Africa.

With the backing of Sahara, Agriarche is now better positioned to deepen its impact—and potentially replicate its model beyond Nigeria.