{"id":218487,"date":"2025-12-30T03:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-croptimus-raises-funding-from-venture-x-to-scale-agritech-platform\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:10:52","slug":"egypt-croptimus-raises-funding-from-venture-x-to-scale-agritech-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-croptimus-raises-funding-from-venture-x-to-scale-agritech-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Croptimus Raises Funding From Venture X to Scale Agritech Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Croptimus, an Egypt-based agritech startup, has raised an undisclosed investment from Venture X, as funding continues to flow into food and agriculture technology across the Middle East and Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Founded in 2021 by Ahmed Hassanein and Abdelrahman AlAtrash, Croptimus converts agricultural and food waste into bio-products used by farms and agribusinesses. Its products include biochar, bio-oil, and activated oil, which are designed to reduce water use, limit fertilizer demand, and support soil&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croptimus, an Egypt-based agritech startup, has raised an undisclosed investment from Venture X, as funding continues to flow into food and agriculture technology across the Middle East and Africa. Founded in 2021 by Ahmed Hassanein and Abdelrahman AlAtrash, Croptimus converts agricultural and food waste into bio-products used by farms and agribusinesses. Its products include biochar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,41786,53269,4697,415,6141,257,7658,5234,10440,254,7918],"class_list":["post-218487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agritech","tag-croptimus","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-funding","tag-news","tag-platform","tag-raises","tag-scale","tag-south-africa-today","tag-venture"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}