Alethiom

Founder: Cale Ettenburg Africa depends on its 50 million smallholder farmers. But the sector is ridden with inefficiencies and challenges at all levels of the supply chain, including access to finance. Financial institutions do not have sufficient data to assess the lending risk to smallholders, and smallholders do not have access to the agronomic expertise to optimize their yields, and reduce the risk to lenders. Our team works with multiple data sources including satellite data and ground-based remote sensing data from multiple sources. We combine this with proprietary data from the platforms of the companies and organizations with which we work to discern the “truth” (Alethia is Greek for truth). We combine these multiple data sources with world-class expertise in machine learning and deep learning techniques. Our multidisciplinary team also has decades of experience in financial inclusion in Africa and can turn raw data into action, for the benefit of the communities in which we live and work in Africa.