Alloysius Attah, 27, is the CEO/founder of Farmerline, a Ghanaian software company and social enterprise.

Farmerline currently has offices in Kumasi and Accra, Ghana where it builds technologies to connect rural customers to information, financial services, and supply chains, with an emphasis on smallholder farmers.

The company has developed multiple proprietary softwares that are used widely across different sectors.

These include the MERGDATA platform, a data analytics and insight solution, and PAYTIME, a credit scoring and lending app that uses alternative data sources for farmers with no credit history.

Farmerline also provide information on good agricultural practices, weather reports, and market updates to farmers, in local languagesto ensure all farmers are able to assess these information.

Farmerline’s content messaging (voice and SMS), remote surveying, and data collection services have been deployed across 5 countries by companies, NGOs, and governments. Farmerline has already been profitable for two years, having generated just over $375,000 (USD) in revenues in 2016, up from $284,000 in 2015.

Till date, Farmerline has reached over 200,000 users across West Africa. The recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 SEED Award and the Financial Times/IFC World Bank Group Transformational Business Award for Achievement in Information and Communication Technology, Farmerline plans to reach 1 million active users by 2020.