Trade in agriculture should not require a leap of faith
AgriVesta is a Kenyan marketplace where farmers, buyers, input suppliers and equipment owners trade with verified counterparties, protected payments and a clear path to resolution when something goes wrong.
The produce is there. The buyers are there. The connection is not.
Kenyan agriculture does not have a supply problem or a demand problem. It has a coordination problem. Value is lost in the gap between the two — to intermediaries, to spoilage while a seller waits for an offer, and to deals that never happen because neither side is willing to move first. These are the five gaps we set out to close.
Fragmented markets
Produce, inputs and equipment sit in separate, mostly offline networks. A farmer in Kirinyaga and a restaurant in Nairobi rarely find each other without a chain of intermediaries.
Limited access to buyers
Most smallholders sell to whoever shows up at the farm gate. Fewer buyers means weaker prices and produce lost while waiting for an offer.
Little price transparency
Without visible reference prices, both sides negotiate blind. Sellers undersell, buyers overpay, and neither knows what fair looks like.
Trust is expensive
Trading with a stranger means someone must move first. That risk is why so much agricultural trade stays inside small, familiar circles.
Inefficient communication
Orders live in scattered calls and messages. When something goes wrong, there is no shared record of what was agreed.
Mission
To make agricultural trade simpler, safer and more transparent — helping farmers reach more buyers than their location allows, and helping buyers find suppliers they can rely on, on terms both sides can see in full before anyone commits.
Vision
To build the trusted digital infrastructure Kenyan agriculture trades on — the layer that handles verification, protected payments, records and resolution, so that any grower or buyer can do business with someone they have never met and know exactly how it will work.
One protected path, from discovery to delivery
Every transaction on AgriVesta follows the same sequence. Both parties always know what has happened, what comes next, and what is protecting them at each stage.
- 01
Discover
Browse produce, inputs and equipment — with nearest listings first.
- 02
Request
Submit a purchase request with quantity, price and delivery details.
- 03
Seller responds
The seller accepts, counters or declines. Stock is reserved on acceptance.
- 04
Secure payment
Pay through IntaSend. Funds are held by the provider, not by AgriVesta.
- 05
Contacts unlock
Once payment is verified, both parties can coordinate directly.
- 06
Delivery
Goods move, with progress tracked on a shared order timeline.
- 07
Complete
Buyer confirms receipt, the seller is settled, and both leave a rating.
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Trust, built into the mechanics
A marketplace cannot ask people to be trusting; it has to make trust unnecessary. Six things do that work on AgriVesta.
Purchase Request workflow
Nothing is charged before a seller confirms availability, price and delivery terms. Buyers submit a request; the seller accepts, counters or declines.
IntaSend secure payments
Payments are processed by IntaSend, a licensed Kenyan payment provider. AgriVesta does not personally hold customer money at any point.
Contacts stay private
Buyer and seller contact details remain hidden until payment is verified — which keeps deals on-platform and both parties protected.
Verified participants
Accounts are verified before trading, and profiles carry ratings and completed-order history so reputation is earned, not claimed.
Transparent communication
Every message, status change and agreement sits in one timeline attached to the order, available to both sides and to our review team.
Structured dispute resolution
If delivery does not match what was agreed, either party can open a dispute. Settlement is paused while our team reviews evidence and decides.
How your money is handled
AgriVesta does not personally hold customer funds. Payments are processed and held by IntaSend, a licensed Kenyan payment service provider, and settled to the seller once the buyer confirms delivery — less our flat 7.5% commission. If a dispute is opened, settlement is paused until it is reviewed. Full details are set out on our Buyer Protection page and in our Terms of Service.
The principles we build against
These are not posters on a wall. They are the tie-breakers we use when two reasonable product decisions point in different directions.
Trust
Every feature is judged by whether it makes trading with a stranger safer.
Transparency
Prices, fees, statuses and decisions are visible to both sides. No hidden deductions.
Fairness
One flat commission for everyone. No paid ranking, no preferential treatment.
Farmer first
When a trade-off appears, we protect the person who carried the growing risk.
Reliability
A confirmed order is a commitment. We build for the day something goes wrong.
Technology with purpose
We ship what solves a real problem in the field, not what demos well.
Infrastructure that stays out of the way
The best compliment a platform like ours can receive is that nobody thinks about it. AgriVesta runs on modern managed cloud infrastructure, chosen for the qualities that matter to a trade you are counting on.
Security by default
Encrypted connections, database-level access rules and audited administrative actions.
Reliability
Managed cloud infrastructure with automated backups so records survive bad days.
Scalability
Built to serve one county or all 47 without changing how the platform behaves.
Performance
Optimised for modest phones and uneven networks — the reality of rural Kenya.
Data protection
We collect what a trade requires, keep location approximate, and never sell your data.
Room to grow
A foundation that lets us add logistics, financing and market data over time.
The next few years
We are early, and we would rather be specific about the near term than sweeping about the far one. Four things have our attention.
Deeper county coverage
Moving from national reach to genuine density in Kenya's main growing and buying corridors.
Stronger verification
Richer seller credentials and quality signals so buyers can judge suppliers at a glance.
Every size of agribusiness
From a single-acre grower to a cooperative or institutional buyer, on the same rails.
Better market information
Turning real transaction data into reference prices both sides can plan around.
The people behind AgriVesta
Adrian Robin Founder & CEO
Adrian founded AgriVesta after seeing the same pattern repeat across Kenyan markets: capable farmers and serious buyers, separated by distance and by the absence of any reliable way to trade with a stranger. He set out to build that missing layer — digital infrastructure that gives agricultural businesses verification, protected payments and accountable records as a matter of course, rather than as a favour extended to whoever is already known.
AgriVesta is built by a small Kenyan team with first-hand knowledge of how this trade actually runs — from market days in Eldoret and Nakuru to supplier routes in Nairobi and Kisumu. That proximity is deliberate: we would rather ship one feature a farmer asked for than five we imagined.
In the words of the people using it
"I used to lose a third of my crop to brokers. Now I set my own price and payment is confirmed before anything leaves my farm."
"Knowing there is a real resolution process makes paying upfront comfortable. Quality has been more consistent than my previous suppliers."
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Questions about selling produce, sourcing inputs, hiring equipment or how a payment is handled? A real person answers.
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Join the people trading with confidence
Creating an account is free. You only pay when a trade completes — one flat 7.5% commission, and Buyer Protection on every eligible order.