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title: "Why Tulaa shut down"
description: "Tulaa, a Kenyan agtech startup connecting smallholder farmers to input financing and produce markets via mobile technology and agent networks, raised roughly $627K-$657K in seed funding from AHL Venture Partners and Beyond Capital Fund by early 2019. No dedicated shutdown article, announcement, or explanation could be found; the company's website and social media accounts have simply been inactive since around 2019."
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markdown_url: "https://liners.com/graveyard/tulaa.md"
type: "graveyard"
language: "en"
image: "/graveyard/tulaa/certificate.png"
published_at: "2026-07-31T17:41:07.836Z"
updated_at: "2026-07-31T17:41:07.836Z"
---

# Why Tulaa shut down

Tulaa, a Kenyan agtech startup connecting smallholder farmers to input financing and produce markets via mobile technology and agent networks, raised roughly $627K-$657K in seed funding from AHL Venture Partners and Beyond Capital Fund by early 2019. No dedicated shutdown article, announcement, or explanation could be found; the company's website and social media accounts have simply been inactive since around 2019.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Graveyard](/graveyard)
- [Tulaa](/graveyard/tulaa)

## Summary

Here lies Tulaa. It connected Kenyan smallholder farmers to input financing and buyers for their harvest through mobile tools and agent networks. After its 2018 seed round the updates stopped, the site and accounts went quiet, and no closing word was ever given.

Tulaa, a Kenyan agtech startup connecting smallholder farmers to input financing and produce markets via mobile technology and agent networks, raised roughly $627K-$657K in seed funding from AHL Venture Partners and Beyond Capital Fund by early 2019. No dedicated shutdown article, announcement, or explanation could be found; the company's website and social media accounts have simply been inactive since around 2019.

## Product history

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Fate | ShutDown |
| Primary cause | Unknown |
| Stage at shutdown | Seed |
| Lifespan in days | 1369 |

## Autopsy report

## What the product attempted

Tulaa built a mobile-and-agent-network platform connecting Kenyan smallholder farmers with affordable agricultural-input financing and buyers/markets for their produce.

## What worked

Raised approximately $627K-$657K in seed funding (led by AHL Venture Partners in August 2018, with Beyond Capital Fund taking an equity stake as its eighth portfolio company by February 2019); received positive press coverage addressing the large agricultural financing gap in Kenya (founder Hillary Miller-Wise cited that under 4% of Kenyan bank loans went to agriculture against roughly $30B in smallholder financing need).

## What happened

Unknown — no dedicated closure coverage was found; the company's last confirmed public activity in available sources is coverage of its 2018-2019 seed funding round, after which its website and social media accounts went dark.

## Sources

- [Tracking Startup Failures in Africa: From Millions in Funding to Silent Shutdowns](https://launchbaseafrica.com/2024/09/05/tracking-startup-failures-in-africa-from-millions-in-funding-to-silent-shutdowns/): Launch Base Africa
- [Meet recently-funded Kenyan agri-tech startup Tulaa](https://disruptafrica.com/2018/08/03/meet-recently-funded-kenyan-agri-tech-startup-tulaa/): Disrupt Africa
- [Beyond Capital finalises Tulaa seed round with $25k capital injection](https://ventureburn.com/2019/03/beyond-capital-tulaa-seed/): Ventureburn

## Related pages

- [Tulaa alternatives](/tulaa/alternatives)
- [Liners Graveyard](/graveyard)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/graveyard/tulaa)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)