Why We Invested in Eyango Food: Connecting Africa's Smallholder Farmers to the World

We are proud to announce our investment in Eyango Food, a digital commodity trading platform connecting smallholder farmers in Central and West Africa to international buyers. The company was founded by Kamala Eyango, an agricultural development expert with eight years of experience across Cameroon, Chad, and India, and the founder of EZFresh, a prior agtech venture partnered with Syngenta.

Total Addressable Market

Why We Invested in Eyango Food: Connecting Africa's Smallholder Farmers to the Worldlobal agricultural trade exceeds $2 trillion annually, with Sub-Saharan Africa contributing over $93 billion in exports. The Chad–Cameroon corridor alone is a significant and structurally underserved origin market for commodities including sesame, gum arabic, and cashew which are crops with active demand from buyers in the Middle East, Europe, and South Africa. The infrastructure connecting these farmers to those buyers has barely evolved: brokers with no shared data, payments that take weeks, and no platform capable of managing the full chain from farm to FOB. The result is a 5–15% margin loss per transaction for suppliers and farmers. Eyango Food is purpose-built for this gap, and the timing has never been better as international buyers actively diversify sourcing away from concentrated supply chains. Eyango Food is digitising the export corridor from Africa's most underserved agricultural markets to international buyers.

Technology & Business Model

Eyango Food manages the complete commodity trading value chain from farmer sourcing to international delivery on a single platform. Buyers access real-time pricing, digital contracts, and order tracking through eyangofood.com, while field agents in Douala manage cross-border sourcing from Chad, quality control verification, and port documentation. Products meet strict international specifications, backed by SGS-equivalent inspection and full documentation including phytosanitary and fumigation certificates. The company generates revenue through two streams: commissions on executed contracts, and a SaaS intelligence layer providing market pricing and predictive analytics to buyers and agricultural stakeholders. The pre-financed trade model (using advance payments and Letters of Credit) keeps the business asset-light while reducing working capital risk on both sides of the transaction.

Team

Kamala Eyango brings eight years of agricultural development experience across Cameroon, Chad, and India, rooted in Cornell research on mobile technology for smallholder farmers and applied through her prior venture EZFresh. EZFresh, a Syngenta-partnered ag-tech platform, sharpened her understanding of what works in African agricultural markets. She is supported by field agents managing cross-border logistics, and a Microsoft-veteran technical advisor guiding platform architecture. 

Traction

Eyango Food has executed five trades across Chad and Cameroon with buyers in the UAE, and South Africa, with zero external capital. With no institutional backing, Kamala built an international buyer network from scratch and closed purchase contracts with established commodity importers across three continents.Farmers accessing the platform receive pricing 20–30% above local broker rates, with advance payments providing working capital across growing seasons. By reducing intermediaries and improving supply chain coordination, the platform also cuts post-harvest losses — a direct environmental and economic benefit for farmers operating on narrow margins.

Impact and Vision

When a farmer in Chad moves from selling to a local broker at a 20–30% discount to accessing a verified international contract with advance payment, the difference shows up immediately: higher household income, better inputs for the next season, and the ability to plan. Eyango Food is routing existing global demand through a channel that actually reaches the people at the origin of the supply chain. That is the most direct form of economic empowerment available in agricultural development: not aid, not subsidy, but market access at fair value.

At scale, the vision is larger. Francophone Central and West Africa sits on some of the most productive and underutilized agricultural land in the world, with commodity export potential that remains almost entirely unrealized because the infrastructure to execute professionally has never been built. Eyango Food is building that infrastructure. The goal is to become the default operating layer for cross-border agricultural trade across a region the market has consistently overlooked.

Delta40 Venture Studio

Beyond capital, our studio team has been working directly with Kamala since close. We are supporting product roadmap development, financial modelling, capital strategy, and fundraising preparation ahead of the Seed round. We have also worked alongside her on investor engagement, helping to shape how Eyango Food tells its story to the right capital partners.

This is precisely the kind of build-stage company where Delta40's hands-on venture support multiplies both commercial scale and farmer impact.

Get Involved

• Investors: If you are building conviction in African agricultural trade infrastructure, we would welcome a conversation. Reach out to the Delta40 team.

•  Operators: Eyango Food is actively hiring across engineering, finance, and trade operations. Get in touch directly with the team. 

• Founders: Building in African commodities, ag-tech, or cross-border trade? Delta40 wants to hear from you

Welcome to the Delta40 portfolio, Eyango Food. 🌍

Sources:

FAO State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2024.

Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor 2025,International Food Policy Research Institute