Ghanaian agritech company building technology solutions for smallholder farmers. Core platform Mergdata is a cloud-based farm management system used by 3,000+ partners across 48+ countries to reach 2.3M+ farmers. Darli AI is their AI-powered farming assistant supporting 27+ languages with voice-based agricultural guidance, crop disease detection, and remote data collection. The ML team (FarmerlineML) develops extensive ASR and TTS models for African languages, making them one of the most prolific producers of open speech models for the continent. 1M+ registered users on Darli AI with 8.5M+ cumulative interactions.
Highly relevant for UNICEF's agricultural and nutrition programs. Darli AI's voice-first approach (27+ languages) addresses low-literacy populations - directly applicable to UNICEF's communication challenges. Their extensive open ASR/TTS models could be repurposed for health messaging, education, and community engagement. Already proven at scale: 1M+ users, 2.3M farmers reached, 60+ countries. The Mergdata platform's offline capability suits rural deployment. Strong presence in UNICEF priority countries (Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Mali, Sierra Leone, Senegal). Collaboration with University of Ghana HCI Lab shows academic-industry partnership model.
One of the most prolific producers of open African language speech models. 33+ models and 21+ datasets on HuggingFace covering 20+ languages. Unique combination of agtech domain expertise with ML research. The FarmerlineML and DarliAI HuggingFace orgs are connected - Emmanuel Kissi (misterkissi) is key ML contributor. Collaboration with University of Ghana HCI Lab (Farmerline <> DCS HCI org on HuggingFace). Christine Lagarde (ECB President) praised them as "an innovative company using technology for good."