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Partnerships

The partnerships that will feed the planet.

Building the agricultural operating system requires the best minds in space, science, technology, development, and distribution. These are the partnerships that make it possible.

The intelligence that feeds Africa will feed Mars

Satellite imagery is the foundation of continental-scale agriculture. Our space partnerships deliver the resolution, frequency, and spectral data that feed every Brain agent.

Space Agency
NASA

Earth observation data, climate models, and the long-term vision: crop optimization protocols developed on African farms adapted for controlled environment agriculture in space.

Space Agency
ESA / Copernicus

Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery at 10m resolution, every 5 days. The backbone of our satellite-based crop health monitoring across the continent.

Commercial Satellite
Planet Labs

Daily 3m resolution imagery. When you need to see every plot, every day — from canopy health to harvest timing to deforestation monitoring for EUDR compliance.

Where agricultural science meets agricultural data

Watoko Labs produces the most comprehensive agricultural dataset Africa has ever had. Our research partners turn that data into discoveries.

Netherlands
Wageningen University

The world's #1 agricultural university. Joint research on precision agriculture, soil science, and climate-adaptive crop varieties.

United States
UC Davis

Agricultural AI, plant genomics, and the science of crop optimization under climate stress. Post-harvest technology and food safety research.

Switzerland
ETH Zurich

Climate modeling, sustainable agriculture systems, and the computational methods behind continental-scale agricultural prediction.

United States
MIT / Stanford

AI/ML architecture, edge computing for low-connectivity environments, and the computer vision models that power pest and disease detection.

Kenya
University of Nairobi

Indigenous crop research, local agronomy expertise, and field validation. The bridge between global science and African agriculture.

Uganda
Makerere University

AI for agriculture research lab, crop disease detection, and community-level impact studies across East African farming systems.

Powered by the best infrastructure on earth

Running AI agents across a continent requires world-class compute, models, and cloud infrastructure.

GPU Compute
NVIDIA

Edge AI inference on Jetson for field-level processing. Cloud training on A100/H100 for the models that power every agent.

AI / Cloud
Google / DeepMind

Weather prediction models, satellite imagery processing, and the multimodal AI that powers voice agents in 2,000+ languages.

Cloud / AI
Microsoft

Azure cloud infrastructure for Africa, AI for Good grants, and FarmBeats integration for IoT sensor networks across the continent.

The institutions shaping the future of food

Agricultural development at continental scale requires institutional partnerships. These organizations set the standards, fund the research, and deploy the capital.

Research Network
CGIAR

The world's largest agricultural research network. 15 centers, 10,000+ scientists. Joint programs on crop variety improvement and climate adaptation.

Foundation
Gates Foundation

Agricultural development grants, digital agriculture initiatives, and the shared vision of transforming smallholder productivity across sub-Saharan Africa.

Development Bank
World Bank / IFC

Agricultural lending infrastructure, climate finance mechanisms, and the policy frameworks that enable digital agriculture at national scale.

Development Bank
African Development Bank

Feed Africa strategy alignment, continental infrastructure investment, and the financial architecture for agricultural transformation.

UN Agency
FAO

Food security monitoring, agricultural data standards, and the global frameworks for sustainable agriculture and nutrition.

From farm to pharmacy

Africa's 65,000 plant species are largely unstudied for pharmaceutical potential. Watoko Labs screens indigenous crops for bioactive compounds — and pharma partners develop them.

Compound Discovery
Pharma Partners

Joint compound discovery programs: Watoko identifies bioactive candidates through systematic screening, pharmaceutical partners handle clinical development and regulatory pathways.

Nutraceuticals
Functional Food Companies

Indigenous African superfoods with verified phytochemical profiles. From moringa to baobab — evidence-based nutrition backed by real agricultural data.

Agricultural Biotech
Seed & Input Companies

Climate-resilient variety development informed by multi-season, multi-microclimate trial data across thousands of farms. The fastest path to adapted genetics.

Reaching every farmer through existing networks

Telecom operators are the distribution layer for agricultural intelligence. Their networks, mobile money rails, and customer relationships are how Watoko reaches the last mile.

East Africa
Safaricom

M-Pesa integration for instant farmer payments, SMS/USSD delivery channels, and the largest mobile network in East Africa. The original mobile money pioneer.

Pan-African
MTN

MTN MoMo payments, coverage across 19 African markets, and the infrastructure backbone for Watoko's expansion into West and Southern Africa.

Pan-African
Airtel Africa

Airtel Money integration, rural network coverage, and joint farmer onboarding programs across 14 African markets.

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Building the agricultural operating system for the planet is not a solo mission. If your organization shares this ambition, let's talk.

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"Watoko replaced five different tools we were using. Now everything — field data, trading, payments — lives in one place."
— Agricultural Operations Manager

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