Bisi Olusegun

Nigerian agri-tech innovator revolutionizing African food security through AI-driven farming solutions

Bisi Olusegun is the founder of FarmCrowdy, Nigeria's leading agritech platform connecting urban investors with rural farmers. Since launching in 2017, his company has raised over $20M in funding and impacted 45,000 farmers across West Africa. His breakthrough came in 2021 when FarmCrowdy introduced Africa's first AI-driven crop monitoring system, reducing crop failure rates by 60% for smallholder farmers. This innovation directly addresses the continent's food insecurity challenges, which affect 258 million people according to the UN. In 2023, Bisi expanded operations to Ivory Coast and Ghana, creating a pan-African network of smart farming hubs. His TEDx talk "How Tech Can Feed Africa" has garnered 1.2M views, inspiring a new generation of agripreneurs. Partnering with the World Food Programme, FarmCrowdy now provides real-time market data to 150,000 farmers through SMS, bypassing exploitative middlemen. Bisi's vision of a digitally connected food system earned him the 2022 African Social Innovation Award. Critics argue scalability challenges remain, but his model has already increased farmer incomes by 300% in pilot regions. Recent partnerships with drone companies promise even greater precision agriculture capabilities by 2025.