HerVest is a Lagos-based startup that provides a digital savings and lending platform to financially include female smallholder farmers. The app combines market-linkage, training, and financial services to give women an on-ramp into formal finance. HerVest secures upfront off-take agreements with commercial buyers, aggregates produce post-harvest, and uses community-driven training (including partners like GIZ) to improve yields. It offers in-app financial education in local languages, monthly in-person workshops with farmer clusters, and is developing a USSD application for users with basic digital access. The platform adapts savings-circle mechanics into a digital product, enabling women to open savings accounts, set goals, and make short-term "impact investment" loans to farmers in the network. HerVest also tracks loan and repayment histories to help farmers build credit profiles.

Total raised

$0M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Oct 2021