Climate Data Startup Amini Raises USD 2 Million in Pre-seed Funding
Summary
Amini, a Kenyan climate data startup, has announced winning USD 2 million in pre-seed funding. The funding will expand Aminis work, such as utilising public satellite data for smallholder farmers on the continent. Aminis aggregation and analytics software taps into European Space Agency Sentinel and NASA Landsat data to deliver information on drought, flood, soil, and crop health. Other early-stage investors in the companys pre-seed round include Superorganism, RaliCap, W3i, and Emurgo Kepple Ventures. Moreover, Amini has also become the first African company accepted onto the highly selective Seraphim Space Accelerator programme, which scouts from the top 2% of global early-stage space companies.Amini was founded in December 2022 after the Founding CEO, Kate Kallot, realised that they had a solution to addressing the gap in African-specific environmental data during the United Nations latest climate change conference.