Bridging Informal Trade and Financial Inclusion: CoAmana Featured in Small Foundation’s 2024 Impact Report
We are proud to share that CoAmana has been featured in Small Foundation’s 2024 Impact Report, showcasing how our work is transforming the lives of informal traders across Africa. One such story is that of Lucy Nyambura, a produce trader at City Park Market in Nairobi. For over 20 years, Lucy has faced the same […]
Celebrating Our Triumph: CoAmana Takes Second Place at the SAIS Female Founder Award 2025
We’re thrilled to share that CoAmana has been named the second-place winner at the prestigious SAIS Female Founder Award 2025, a Pan-African recognition celebrating transformative women-led startups in agritech. The competition drew over 200 entries, and this honor is a testament to our team’s determination, vision, and impact At CoAmana, our mission has always been […]
CoAmana at the PricePally Impact Summit
IKEJA, LAGOS — May 23 2025 — Digital wholesale platform PricePally wrapped up its two-day PricePally Impact Summit on Thursday with a clear call to harness data and grassroots collaboration to unlock the productivity of Nigeria’s 38 million smallholder farmers. The summit gathered agritech founders, cooperative leaders, policy makers and financiers in Ikeja from 22–23 […]
Mapping Change: What UNDP Learned from a Participatory Pilot with CoAmana
Between November 2023 and March 2024, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Gates Foundation undertook a participatory Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) pilot with CoAmana, a technology firm that supports traditional agricultural markets in West and East Africa. The exercise aimed to test a joint diagnostic framework that captures five structural drivers of market performance—Resilience, Inclusiveness, […]
Building Climate‑Smart Markets: How the GSMA Innovation Fund Supercharged CoAmana’s Impact
When the GSMA Innovation Fund selected CoAmana for its climate resilience portfolio in late 2022, our goal was clear yet ambitious: prove that a digital marketplace rooted in Africa’s traditional trade hubs could help farmers thrive in the face of harsher, drier seasons. Eighteen months later, the results speak for themselves—86,000 people reached, 21,000 smallholders […]
CoAmana Partners with Pula and Leadway to Provide Insurance for Farmers and Traders in Nigeria
CoAmana has partnered with Pula Advisors and Leadway Insurance to introduce a new insurance product for traders and farmers in Nigeria’s traditional markets. This initiative aims to provide financial protection against climate risks, theft, accidents, and business disruptions, ensuring greater economic resilience. Traditional markets are crucial to Nigeria’s agricultural economy but remain highly vulnerable to […]
CoAmana at the Small Foundation Gathering
February 24-25, 2025 | Nairobi, Kenya Small Foundation recently hosted its annual partner gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together a diverse group of investors, network managers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs in Africa’s SME space. The event aimed to address the unique challenges facing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) on the continent and explore innovative solutions for […]