Africado

What Africado does

Africado is a Tanzanian fruit grower, packer, and exporter headquartered in Dodoma and founded in 2007. The company self-describes as the largest fruit exporter in Tanzania, indicating it has scaled beyond a single-orchard operation to a commercial export business. Its headquarters sit in Dodoma, in central Tanzania, a region increasingly associated with horticultural production for international markets. Africado operates with a workforce of 101–250 employees, consistent with an integrated agribusiness spanning orchards, a packhouse, and export logistics rather than a smallholder grower model.

Day-to-day activity centers on fruit cultivation, post-harvest handling, and shipment to international off-takers. As an export-grade fruit business, Africado's revenue mechanics depend on harvest yields, packable output, freight and cold-chain logistics, and realized FOB prices in destination markets (most likely Europe and the Middle East for Tanzanian avocados). Pricing is therefore set by international per-kilogram fruit benchmarks rather than by a domestic retail or software-style pricing model, and customer relationships are anchored by long-term off-take rather than transactional volume.

Africado's capital base reflects a development-finance-backed growth profile. The company has received investment from Finnfund (a Finnish development financier) in February 2019 and from AgDevCo (a specialist African agribusiness investor) in a fourth funding round in July 2019. These investors typically provide patient capital and quasi-equity to East African agribusinesses with export potential, suggesting Africado's growth model depends on scaling orchard acreage, packhouse throughput, and export-market reach rather than venture-style rapid scaling. Leadership rests with Chief Executive Officer James Parsons.

Name

Africado

Website

https://africado.co.tz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Africado is a Tanzanian fruit grower, packer, and exporter headquartered in Dodoma, founded in 2007, and self-described as the largest fruit exporter in Tanzania, selling primarily into international off-take markets with backing from development-finance investors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh Fruit Exports

NAICS

Fruit and Tree Nut Farming (1113)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Tropical & Subtropical Fruit Orchards (Avocados, Mangoes, Bananas/Plantains, Pineapples, Papayas) (AFAGACAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Import / Export Produce Wholesale (Cross-Border Trading) (AFAIACAH)

Keywords

• Fresh fruit exports
• Tanzania horticulture
• Agricultural produce
• Fruit farming
• Export agriculture

Headquarters

HQ city

Dodoma

HQ country

Tanzania

HQ region

Africa

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

Africado grows and exports fresh fruit from Tanzania, operating as the country's largest fruit exporter. The company produces fruit on its own operations in Dodoma and sells it through export channels to international buyers. The specific fruit varieties and product grades are not detailed in the available source material.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tanzanian fresh fruit exports

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Limoneira Company: US-listed diversified fresh-produce grower (citrus, avocados, specialty crops). Comparable as a publicly-traded grower-exporter, though focused on North American markets rather than African sourcing.

Broad incumbents

• Mission Produce: US-listed global avocado grower-packhouse-distributor. Comparable in core product (Hass avocados) and integrated export supply chain, though operating at far greater scale and geographic breadth than Africado.
• Calavo Growers: US-based avocado marketer and packer. Comparable as a value-chain participant in avocados and tropical produce, but serves North American retail channels rather than Africado's primary EU/Middle East markets.
• Westfalia Fruit: Global avocado producer and exporter with multi-origin sourcing including Africa. Comparable in product category and export orientation, though materially larger and more diversified than Africado.
• Halls (Halls Fresh Produce / HL Hall & Sons): South African-headquartered subtropical fruit grower-exporter (avocados, mangoes, lychees) supplying European retailers. Comparable as an Africa-based tropical-fruit exporter serving EU markets, with broader scale.

Direct peers

• Kakuzi PLC: Kenya-listed agricultural company that grows and exports Hass avocados (among other crops) to European markets. Closest direct peer to Africado given overlapping product, customer base, and East African export business model.
• AvoAfrica: African Hass avocado producer and exporter focused on EU markets. Direct peer to Africado in product, geography, and export customer profile.
• Subati Group: Kenyan horticulture group producing avocados and other fruits for export. Closely comparable East African fruit exporter with similar customer base and operating model to Africado.
• Sunripe / Kibwezi Avocados: Kenyan avocado grower-exporter supplying European retailers. Comparable in scale and product mix; serves as a regional competitor to Africado for EU avocado supply.
• Keitt Exporters: Kenyan-based fresh-produce exporter with a significant mango and avocado programme to Europe. Direct regional peer competing with Africado for similar tropical-fruit export volumes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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