Making precision agriculture accessible to every farmer.
HoneyCore's story begins with our founder David Nandwa's childhood on a smallholder farm in western Kenya. He watched his family work 12-hour days on their land, making decisions with limited information and frequently losing crops to drought, disease, or price collapse — problems that technology already existed to solve, but was never designed for farmers like them.
After careers in agricultural research and mobile technology, David built HoneyCore to be the platform he wished his family had — intelligent, affordable, and designed from the ground up for the realities of smallholder farming in Africa and other emerging markets.
Today, HoneyCore serves over 500,000 farms across 15 countries. With $3.3M in Seed funding from TLcom Capital, we are expanding rapidly and deepening our technology capabilities to serve farmers better.
The principles behind HoneyCore's agricultural technology mission.
Every feature we build starts with a real farmer problem. We spend time in the field, listen to farmers, and design products around their actual decision-making context.
Technology that only works with reliable connectivity or expensive devices is not designed for our farmers. Offline-first architecture, USSD interfaces, and affordable pricing are non-negotiable requirements.
Our agronomic recommendations are grounded in peer-reviewed research and validated through our field partner network. We do not speculate or extrapolate beyond what the evidence supports.
Technology works best when it amplifies local expertise. We partner with local extension services, cooperatives, and agronomists who understand the specific crops, conditions, and cultures of the farmers we serve.
We design recommendations that improve yields while maintaining soil health for future generations. Short-term yield maximization that depletes soils is not a solution we support.
Better farming decisions are worth more when farmers have fair market access. Our market platform is as important as our agronomic tools in delivering real income improvements.