Sector: Agriculture

In portfolio since: 2020

Location: Kenya

Cinch Markets is an early stage, rapidly growing land management company. Cinch unlocks the potential of the land held by smallholder farmers by aggregating groups of interested smallholder farmers and consolidates the management of their land with leases. Cinch makes key infrastructure investments in the land to support the transition into high revenue-generating activities, like export horticulture, with demonstrated ROI.

Cinch’s model dramatically increases landowners’ incomes, creates employment opportunities and trains local youth in top tier agronomic practices. Cinch has the potential to tap into the largely impoverished population of smallholder farmers in Kenya, who hold 80% of arable land, strongly impacting the community and young people looking for work.