WeFarm
About us
Who are we?
Over 1 billion smallholder farmers produce 80% of the world's food, and four of the five most traded commodities on earth, yet the vast majority lack access to the internet and even basic information to help them solve problems or share ideas.
No one has built a platform for these farmers. Until Wefarm.
Wefarm is already the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, with more than 1 million farmers using our ecosystem in Kenya and Uganda alone. Our farmers share more than 40,000 questions and answers every day.
Farmers connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation, for free, and without needing an internet connection (Wefarm works even through SMS).
Utilising the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service gets bespoke, crowd- sourced information to help farmers increase yields, gain insight into pricing, tackle the effects of climate change, source the best quality seeds, fertiliser, and loans and diversify their agricultural interests.
With the smallholder global agricultural market valued at over 400 billion USD, our vision is to create a digital online/ offline ecosystem for global smallholder agriculture.
WeFarm has won Google’s prestigious Impact Challenge Award, the MEFFYS Award for Innovation in Technology, the Messaging and SMS World Awards’ Best SMS Solution, Business Rocks’ Global Startup Pitch Battle, Chivas Regal’s The Venture Competition’s UK prize, and 2nd place in their Global final and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe Prize.
- Technology
- Seed
- People: 10-49
- Founded: 2012
- London, United Kingdom
Technology
DevOps
(2)Infrastructure
(2)Tools
(3)You will be building a large Clojure
based API
(Liberator, core.async, Ring, etc) and using a variety AI/NLP/ML
tools & techniques to help develop and deliver the service.
You will also work closely with our Data Scientist & Head of Engagement to make sure the value and insight we extract from our traffic is passed on to our partners and users.
Testing
Ops
Time to deploy
Benefits
Culture
(4)Financial benefits
(2)Parents
(1)Vacation
(1)Extras
(3)Professional development
(1)Diversity
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- Technology
- Seed
- People: 10-49
- Founded: 2012
- London, United Kingdom
Hire with us!
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Use this space to connect with our community. Companies with profiles typically get 20% more applications!
How we work
"Honestly (and it sounds really cliché), the best thing is the team. I'm constantly amazed by the range of talents in so many different areas." - Ben, Data Scientist
"The best thing about working for Wefarm is the impact we have on so many farmers. Working hours are flexible and the people are awesome!" - Njoki, Product Manager
"Wefarm has a pretty cool inclusive culture that welcomes every one. Ideas that build the company are everyone's contribution irrespective of ones position in the company, this you will only find at Wefarm. The Wefarm team has got lots of passion for the company something that you won't find anywhere." - Justus, Head of Farmers