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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 people who grow our food.

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. By the time damage is visible from the cab or the field edge, it has often spread — and the response is a blanket spray or a write-off, both expensive.

For decades, plant-level monitoring was a luxury: it took an agronomist walking every row. Two things changed that. Affordable drones and good phone cameras put high-resolution imagery in every grower's hands, and cheap GPU inference made it possible to analyse that imagery plant by plant.

Verdyn sits in that gap. We pair agronomic expertise with computer vision so a full flight or a phone walk-through becomes a clear map of what needs attention — and what to do about it.

What we believe

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

Help every grower 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 growers, cooperatives, and partners 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 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.

Farmer-first

Your imagery and your decisions 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.