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About us

We exist so no acre is lost to a problem caught too late.

Verdyn is an AI-first agritech company turning drone and field imagery into plant-level intelligence for the organisations that stand behind the people who grow our food — cooperatives, estates, and agricultural NGOs.

Our story

A yield problem hiding in plain sight.

Across the world, a large share of preventable crop loss traces back to one thing: disease, pests, and stress spotted too late. For the organisations that support farmers — cooperatives coordinating hundreds of members, estates running dozens of blocks, NGOs serving thousands of smallholder plots — the problem compounds: by the time a field officer reaches a farm, the damage has often spread.

For decades, plant-level monitoring was a luxury: it took an agronomist walking every row, and no extension team can walk them all. Two things changed that. Affordable drones and good phone cameras put high-resolution imagery in every field team's hands, and cheap GPU inference made it possible to analyse that imagery plant by plant, farm after farm.

Verdyn sits in that gap. We pair agronomic expertise with computer vision so a drone flight or a phone walk-through — by your staff or the farmers you serve — becomes a clear map of which farms need attention, and what to do about it.

What we believe

  • Good agronomy comes first; AI serves it.
  • Honest guidance beats confident guesswork.
  • Organisations and their farmers own their data and decisions.
Our mission

Help every organisation that serves growers act early and grow more from every acre.

Aerial drone view of green crop fields
Our team

Founders building Verdyn.

A small, technical team — at least one founder a hands-on builder of the detection models.

Portrait of Favour Somtochukwu

Favour Somtochukwu

Co-founder & CEO

Agronomy and operations background. Works directly with cooperatives, estates, and NGO field programmes to keep Verdyn grounded in the realities of the field.

Portrait of Tunde Balogun

Tunde Balogun

Co-founder & CTO

Machine-learning and computer-vision engineer. Leads the detection models and the multi-farm platform that turns drone and field imagery into per-plant guidance.

Grounded in agronomy

Our models are guided by real agronomic knowledge, not just pixels.

Honest guidance

We show our reasoning and flag uncertainty rather than overclaiming.

Partner-first

Your organisation's imagery and decisions — and your farmers' — stay yours. We earn trust by being useful.

Where we work

Target and pilot markets.

KenyaNigeriaBrazilIndiaUSA

We list only markets where we operate or run pilots.