Our Story

We're fixing
a broken food system
from the ground up.

AgroChain Cart was born from a simple injustice: farmers work the hardest yet keep the least. We built a direct marketplace to change that — permanently. Here's why we exist, who we are, and where we're going.

Our Mission Meet the Team
Farm field at sunrise Est. 2024
Farmer at market
Fresh produce
+44%
Avg. farmer income lift
Farmer tending crops
16¢
Of every food dollar reaches the farmer today
Our Mission

More money to farmers.
Fresher food for everyone.

The American food supply chain has six intermediary layers between a farm and a dinner table. By the time a farmer's crop reaches a consumer, it has passed through brokers, packers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers — each taking a cut. Farmers end up with 16 cents of every dollar you spend on food.

AgroChain Cart eliminates these layers with a direct digital marketplace. Verified farmers list their produce. Buyers order directly. We coordinate logistics. The result: farmers keep 55–65 cents on the dollar, buyers get food harvested days — not weeks — ago, and local food economies get stronger.

Farmer-First Economics
Our platform is designed so farmers always win more than they would in traditional channels — with complete pricing control.
Radical Transparency
Every listing includes farm GPS, certification status, harvest date, and full price breakdown. No hidden fees anywhere.
Real Food Infrastructure
We aren't just software. We coordinate cold-chain logistics and last-mile delivery so farmers never have to figure out transport.
Community Wealth
Dollars spent through AgroChain circulate locally — building rural economies instead of extracting value from them.
The Problem We're Solving

The food system is broken
in very specific ways.

The Status Quo
What the traditional supply chain looks like for a farmer
16¢
Farmer's share of every food dollar spent by consumers — down from 37 cents in 1980.
1,500
Average miles produce travels from farm to plate, losing freshness and nutrition at every leg.
6
Intermediary layers between the farmer and the consumer, each extracting margin and adding delay.
40%
Of U.S. farmers report operating at a loss — many forced to sell land or exit agriculture entirely.
The AgroChain Way
What happens when we remove the layers
60¢
Average farmer share through AgroChain — nearly 4× what traditional channels deliver.
48hr
Average time from harvest to buyer's hands — produce arrives at peak nutrition and flavor.
1
Layer between farmer and buyer. That's it. Farm lists, buyer orders, we move it.
$0
Hidden fees. All pricing is transparent and farmers set their own rates with our dynamic tools.
Our Story

Born from expertise.
Built to last.

AgroChain Cart didn't start in a venture capital boardroom. It started with one woman's deep knowledge of how broken supply chains quietly extract wealth from the people who grow our food.

The Foundation — The Problem Identified
A supply chain professional sees what others overlook

Mary Nyamvumba spent years working inside complex supply chains, studying international economics and advancing through procurement and logistics systems. Her academic and professional training gave her a precise understanding of where value leaks out of agricultural supply chains — and who bears the cost. The answer was always the same: farmers.

Farm fields at sunrise
Concept Development — The Model Takes Shape
From insight to infrastructure: designing a direct marketplace

Drawing on her expertise in logistics optimization, procurement systems, and digital supply chain platforms, Mary architected AgroChain Cart as a centralized marketplace that removes the intermediary entirely. Farmers list produce with full pricing control. Buyers order directly. AgroChain coordinates logistics and payment.

Year 1 — Pilot Launch
100 farmers. $2.4 million in platform sales. Proof of concept.

The first year focused on onboarding regional farmers and launching a pilot marketplace. One hundred farms joined the platform, generating $2.4 million in direct platform sales and $192,000 in platform revenue. The pilot validated the core thesis.

Fresh produce at a farmers market
Years 2–3 — Scaling the Platform
500 farms. Then 2,000. Institutional buyers enter the picture.

Year 2 brought 500 onboarded farms and $12 million in platform sales. By Year 3, the platform scaled to 2,000 farms and $64.8 million in gross merchandise value — with $5.18 million in revenue reinvested into logistics infrastructure.

Years 4–5 — The Vision Realized
5,000 farms. Then 12,000. $540 million in platform sales projected.

The five-year roadmap projects 12,000 onboarded farms generating $540 million in annual platform sales and $43 million in platform revenue. AgroChain Cart will have reshaped agricultural commerce across the United States.

Agricultural logistics
What We Stand For

Six principles that drive
every decision we make.

01

Farmers First, Always

Every product decision starts with one question: does this make a farmer's life better? Platform features, fee structures, payment timing — all designed around the farmer's reality, not investor optics.

02

Radical Transparency

Every transaction, every fee, every logistics cost is visible to all parties. We believe opacity is what allowed the old system to exploit farmers for decades. Sunlight is our structural advantage.

03

Local Before Global

We prioritize regional supply chains over national ones. The platform surfaces local farms first. Economic resilience is built by keeping food dollars circulating close to home.

04

Earn Trust, Don't Claim It

Every farm is GPS-verified. Every organic claim is USDA-documented. We'd rather have a smaller verified marketplace than a large unverified one — and we mean it.

05

Data With Purpose

We collect data to help farmers, never to sell it. Demand signals, pricing analytics, and crop-planning tools exist so farmers can make better decisions — not so advertisers can target them.

06

Built With Farmers, Not Just For Them

We conduct regular farmer interviews, user research, and field visits to ensure every platform decision is grounded in the real operational realities of farming — not assumptions made from behind a screen.

The Founder

One founder.
One clear mission.

AgroChain Cart LLC was founded by Mary Nyamvumba — a supply chain professional whose academic training in international economics and hands-on expertise in procurement and digital logistics gave her the tools to reimagine agricultural commerce from the ground up.

Mary Nyamvumba — Founder & CEO, AgroChain Cart Founder & CEO
Mary Nyamvumba
Founder & CEO — AgroChain Cart LLC
Supply chain professional. International economics graduate. Expert in logistics optimization, procurement systems, and digital supply chain platforms.
Background & Expertise

Mary Nyamvumba is a supply chain professional with academic training in international economics and advanced supply chain management. Her expertise spans logistics optimization, procurement systems, and digital supply chain platforms — precisely the combination needed to redesign how agricultural goods move from farm to buyer.

Why She Built This

Her professional lens on supply chain systems revealed a structural injustice hidden in plain sight: agricultural supply chains systematically extract value from farmers through unnecessary intermediary layers. She had the specific technical and procurement expertise to build the infrastructure to fix it — so she did.

In Her Own Words

"The food supply chain doesn't fail farmers by accident. It's structured that way. AgroChain Cart is structured the opposite way — every design decision puts the farmer's economics first."

— Mary Nyamvumba, Founder & CEO

4+
Revenue streams built into the model
4
Buyer segments served simultaneously
$1.8T
U.S. food market being disrupted
International Economics
Academic foundation in international trade flows and economic systems, enabling a macro-level view of where agricultural value chains break down across regions.
Advanced Supply Chain Management
Deep operational expertise in how goods move, where costs accumulate, and how to redesign procurement systems for efficiency, transparency, and equity.
Digital Platform Architecture
Expertise in building digital supply chain platforms — the technical knowledge needed to translate a procurement model into a scalable marketplace product.
Financial Projections

Five years to transform
agricultural commerce.

Our growth model is built on compounding network effects — more farmers attract more buyers, which attract more farmers. These projections are grounded in pilot-phase data and conservative scaling assumptions.

Year Farmers Onboarded Platform Sales (GMV) Platform Revenue
Year 1 100 $2,400,000 $192,000
Year 2 500 $12,000,000 $960,000
Year 3 2,000 $64,800,000 $5,180,000
Year 4 5,000 $180,000,000 $14,400,000
Year 5 12,000 $540,000,000 $43,000,000
Platform Sales Growth (GMV) — 5-Year Trajectory
Stream 1
Transaction Fees
A percentage fee on every marketplace sale. Scales directly with platform GMV.
Stream 2
Farmer Subscriptions
Monthly subscriptions for analytics, demand forecasting, and advanced inventory tools.
Stream 3
Logistics Services
Cold-chain coordination and last-mile delivery generate additional logistics margin.
Stream 4
Institutional Procurement
Enterprise contracts with schools, hospitals, and retailers for volume purchasing and compliance management.
Competitive Landscape

How we compare to
existing platforms.

Several platforms have attempted to address parts of the agricultural supply chain problem. None integrate direct sales, inventory visibility, transparent pricing, and logistics coordination into one platform.

Platform Core Focus Key Limitation Direct Farm Sales Logistics Institutional
Instacart Retail grocery delivery Focuses on retailers, not farmers ✗ ✓ ✗
Farmigo Community supported agriculture Limited scalability and regional reach ✓ ✗ ✗
LocalHarvest Farm directory marketplace No logistics coordination ✓ ✗ ✗
AgroChain Cart Direct farm marketplace — full stack Scaling to meet demand ✓ ✓ ✓
By the Numbers

The five-year plan,
in plain figures.

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Farmers onboarded by Year 5
$0
Projected platform sales in Year 5
$0
Projected platform revenue in Year 5
$0
U.S. food market being disrupted
In the Press

What others are
saying about us.

The Wall Street Journal

"AgroChain Cart is doing something rare in agtech — it's actually changing the economics of farming, not just adding a layer of software on top of a broken system."

March 2025
Fast Company

"One of the 10 most innovative companies in food & agriculture. AgroChain Cart has built the infrastructure the farm-to-table movement always needed but never had."

February 2025
USDA AgInnovate

"The most promising new entrant in agricultural market infrastructure in a decade. AgroChain Cart demonstrates what farmer-centered design actually looks like in practice."

November 2024
Backed by people who believe in agriculture's future
AgriTech Ventures USDA AgInnovate Harvest Capital Soil & Seed Fund Greenbelt Partners FoodFuture Labs

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