Hekitari provides a technology platform that fuses satellite imagery with on‑ground IoT sensors to deliver continuous, high‑resolution data on crop health, soil moisture, and yield forecasts for African farms.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Agricultural lenders and agribusinesses in Africa often lack reliable, real‑time data on farm performance, making it difficult to assess credit risk, verify activity, and scale financing across large, dispersed portfolios.
Solution
Hekitari offers a technology platform that combines satellite imagery with on‑ground IoT sensors to generate continuous, high‑resolution insights into crop health, moisture levels, and expected yields. The platform delivers automated alerts for early stress detection, predictive yield forecasts, and precision irrigation recommendations, enabling lenders to make data‑driven credit decisions and monitor loans throughout the growing season. By digitizing farm information, Hekitari reduces the need for costly field visits, lowers monitoring expenses, and improves water‑use efficiency for farmers by up to 80 %.
Target Audience
Primary customers are banks, micro‑finance institutions, and agribusiness lenders that provide financing to smallholder and commercial farms across Africa.
Features
- Satellite‑based crop monitoring delivering near‑real‑time health indices across entire fields
- IoT moisture sensors that feed high‑accuracy soil‑water data for precision irrigation guidance
- Automated early‑warning alerts for pest, disease, or weather‑related stress events
- Machine‑learning models that produce yield forecasts and risk scores for credit underwriting
- Dashboard analytics that track farm performance before financing, during the season, and after harvest
- API integration allowing financial institutions to embed farm data into existing loan management systems