Honey Flow Africa

What Honey Flow Africa does

Honey Flow Africa is a Nigeria-based private company founded in 2018 by Amaete Umanah and Joshua Agbomedarho that develops IoT hardware and AI-enabled software to digitize beekeeping operations for African smallholder farmers and individual beekeepers. The company's core offering, branded as the Smart Hive Monitor and Beekeeper's Tech Companion, consists of in-hive sensor kits (sourced via partnership with US-based OS Beehives) that capture temperature, humidity, and audio data, which are processed by proprietary AI software to detect bee colony behavioral patterns such as queen swarming preparations and surfaced to the user through a smartphone application with real-time alerts. In parallel with the hardware business, the company operates its own tech-enhanced apiaries that produce and sell premium 100% organic honey under the Honey Flow Africa brand, creating a vertically integrated model spanning IoT device sales and downstream honey production.

The company generates revenue through two streams: one-time hardware sales of its smart hive IoT devices and sales of its own organic honey. Pricing is quote-based, with all customer inquiries routed through a single email address ([email protected]), and there is no self-serve commerce channel or public price list. Go-to-market relies on founder-led visibility through startup competitions (TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, BRINC MENA Accelerator 2019), organic social media, and community-led outreach among African beekeeping networks, rather than structured sales or distribution partnerships. The company's only disclosed funding is a $51,901 round in May 2019 from Brinc and Tamkeen, and it operates with 1-10 employees from its headquarters in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

Name

Honey Flow Africa

Legal name

Honey Flow Africa

Website

https://honeyflowafrica.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Honey Flow Africa is a Nigeria-based IoT and AI company that builds smart hive monitoring devices and companion software for individual beekeepers and smallholder farmers in Africa, while also producing and selling its own organic honey.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Beekeeping Equipment & Organic Honey

NAICS

Apiculture (11291)

akta.pro primary industry

Organic Apiculture (Beekeeping) (AFAEAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Beekeeping Equipment Manufacturing & Supply (Hives, Frames, Tools, PPE) (AFAEAHAI), Honey Production & Extraction (AFAEAHAA)

Keywords

• Smart beekeeping devices
• IoT hive monitoring
• Organic honey production
• Precision apiculture
• Agriculture technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Port Harcourt

HQ country

Nigeria

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Smart Hive IoT Devices: Sale of proprietary IoT monitoring devices designed to integrate with beekeeping hives, providing sensors for temperature, humidity, and hive activity monitoring.
2. Organic Honey Production and Sales: Production and sale of premium organic honey sourced from tech-enhanced apiaries, with the company's own hives managed using IoT technology.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Honey Flow Africa designs and sells IoT-based smart hive monitoring devices (Smart Hive Monitor and Beekeeper's Tech Companion) equipped with temperature, humidity, and sound sensors, paired with AI software and a smartphone application that deliver real-time alerts and behavioral pattern detection to beekeepers. The company also produces and sells premium organic honey sourced from its own tech-enhanced apiaries in Nigeria, creating a vertically integrated beekeeping operation.

Product overview

Honey Flow Africa offers a dual-value proposition combining proprietary IoT technology products with organic honey production. The core technology portfolio consists of two connected IoT devices: the Smart Hive Monitor and the Beekeeper's Tech Companion, both designed to integrate seamlessly with beehives to enable real-time monitoring, environmental analytics, and AI-powered behavioral pattern detection. These IoT devices collect data on temperature, humidity, and hive activity, sending real-time alerts to the beekeeper's smartphone. In parallel, the company operates tech-enhanced apiaries that produce premium 100% organic, sustainably sourced honey, creating a vertically integrated model where innovative technology directly improves honey quality and production efficiency.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Smart Hive Monitor

Quantifiable outcome

• Increased honey yield for beekeepers using IoT monitoring devices
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OS BeehivescoreTechnology or Integration · 1 February 2019OS Beehives is a US-based company that supplies the monitoring kit used in the Honey Flow Africa system. The kit provides sensors that capture hive data (temperature, humidity, sound) which is fed into Honey Flow Africa's AI software and smartphone app. This is a mutual technology partnership where OS Beehives provides the hardware kit and Honey Flow Africa provides the AI analytics and monitoring platform.
• TechCrunch (Startup Battlefield Africa)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 11 December 2018TechCrunch selected Honey Flow Africa as one of the top 15 companies to compete at Startup Battlefield Africa in Lagos in December 2018. Facebook partnered with TechCrunch on the event through the FB Start program. This was a competition/marketing platform that provided Honey Flow Africa with high-visibility pitching opportunities, media coverage, and access to investors and judges.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Semios: Semios is a large precision-agriculture IoT platform for crop and orchard management, including pollination monitoring. While not beekeeping-specific, it overlaps thematically as an IoT-and-data platform provider in agriculture and represents a strategic partnership or future adjacency for Honey Flow Africa.

Direct peers

• BeeHero: BeeHero builds IoT sensors placed inside beehives combined with AI analytics to optimize pollination services and monitor colony health at commercial scale. Like Honey Flow Africa, it pairs proprietary hardware with proprietary software/AI, but focuses on pollination for large US/EU almond and crop growers.
• BroodMinder: US-based BroodMinder produces cellular-connected hive sensors (temperature, humidity, weight) for hobbyist and commercial beekeepers, mirroring Honey Flow Africa's IoT-device-plus-data approach. Both target precision beekeeping with hardware-fed insights, although BroodMinder is focused on North American and European markets.
• Pollenity: Pollenity (formerly Bulb Technologies' beekeeping project) develops connected smart-hive sensors and analytics software to help beekeepers monitor and manage colonies remotely — directly comparable to Honey Flow Africa's Smart Hive Monitor and Beekeeper's Tech Companion product set.
• Apiary Book: Apiary Book is a digital hive management platform used by beekeepers to log inspections, track treatments, and analyze colony data, increasingly integrating with smart hive sensors. It competes with the software/app layer of Honey Flow Africa's offering across international markets.
• The Bee Corp: The Bee Corp uses image recognition and data analytics for hive health monitoring, helping commercial beekeepers reduce colony loss. It overlaps directly with Honey Flow Africa's vision of replacing traditional hive inspection with data-driven, technology-enabled monitoring.

Broad incumbents

• Flow Hive: Flow Hive is a well-known smart-hive hardware brand popular with hobbyist beekeepers worldwide, offering a tap-on-tap honey extraction system with newer connected features. While its product focus differs (mechanical harvesting vs. IoT monitoring), it operates in the broader "technology-enabled beekeeping" space where Honey Flow Africa competes for consumer attention.

Regional players

• Arnia Remote Hive Monitoring: UK-based Arnia provides remote hive monitoring systems with sensors for temperature, humidity, sound, and weight, paired with web-based analytics for beekeepers. It is functionally analogous to Honey Flow Africa's offering but serves the UK/EU market, making it a comparable competitor in a different geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/honeyflowafrica
• Facebookfacebook.com/honeyflowafrica
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/honey-flow-africa
• Instagraminstagram.com/honeyflowafrica

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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