Jamila Abass (M-Farm)
African Queen of Agritech, Jamila Abass is a computer scientist who bagged BSc in Computer Science from the University of Abdelmalek Essaadi, Morocco in 2009.
She established M-farm after reading about how farmers disconnected in terms of information are exploited by middlemen price-wise. M-Farm is a market-driven, highly-scalable, agent-facilitated, collective crop-selling platform largely focused on the horticulture value chain. It provides market solution for smallholder farmers through a network of agents who supply produce to wholesalers under contract.
Before starting M-Farm, she had worked for African Virtual University as Medical Records Systems developer and Akirachix as the Business Development Manager and currently the country manager of Wefarm.
The Kenyan born entrepreneur has received many awards including 2015 New African Woman women of the year, Forbes 10 Female Tech Founders to Watch and 20 Young Power Women in Africa, Quartz’s 30 African Innovators as well as 2015 100 most influential Africans. She is also an Aspen New Voices, Poptech Personality, Unreasonable and an Ashoka fellow.
