# Impact Connect

> Impact Connect is a VC fund backing Agriculture, Farmers Market and Machine Learning. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Impact Connect is a VC fund focused on Agriculture and Farmers Market. Impact Connect goal is to promote private investments with significant developmental impact. ImpactConnect is a promotional program under the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development's (BMZ) "Partners in Transformation" initiative.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agriculture | 1 | 100% |
| Farmers Market | 1 | 100% |
| Machine Learning | 1 | 100% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Apollo Agriculture | Apollo Agriculture is an agtech company that offers farmers access to agricultural inputs, financing, and advice. Apollo helps farmers in emerging markets maximize their profits. The company uses agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile phones to deliver a customized package of credit, high-quality farm inputs, and advice that candouble farm yields, starting in Kenya. Apollo assesses farmer credit risk and customizes each package to a farmer's specific location using satellite data, soil data, farmer behavior data, and crop yield models. | $10M | Debt Financing | Jan 25, 2024 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Swedfund International](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/swedfund-international) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Impact Connect invest in?

Impact Connect invests primarily in Agriculture, Farmers Market and Machine Learning startups, most often at Debt Financing stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Impact Connect last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Impact Connect closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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