Michael Ogundare

Michael Ogundare is the Founder and CEO of Crop2Cash, a Nigerian agricultural technology company founded in 2018 that empowers smallholder farmers through access to formal financing, digital payments, agricultural inputs, and supply chain management tools. He is an analytical and solution-oriented software engineer with a background in computer science. He utilizes technology such as USSD and machine learning to digitize the agricultural value chain and improve credit accessibility for farmers. Under his leadership, Crop2Cash won the FCMB-Wennovation Hub Agri-Tech Incubation Startup Demo Day in 2018. He was named the top agricultural technology innovator in Nigeria at the 2019 Agrinovation Conference and was a top 14 finalist for the 2021 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize.