Following a preliminary meeting with members of the EU Commission Expert Group on April 19th, PemPem Founder and CEO Joann de Zegher was invited to present PemPem’s realizations in providing traceability for smallholders in the palm fruit supply chain during the April 24 27th Meeting of the Multi-Stakeholder Platform on Protecting and Restoring the World’s Forests.

The launch of Niaga for Agents enables PemPem to capture fruit that is otherwise not tracked through any traceable supply chain.

PemPem will be onboarding the first batch of 10 mills and 10,000 smallholder farmers in Riau and North Sumatra for Unilever, and traded volumes are expected to grow rapidly over 2024.

The European Union’s recent legislation to reduce commodity-driven deforestation is an important step toward preventing further biodiversity loss and combating climate change. But its effectiveness depends on capturing granular data on smallholder farmers operating in informal supply chains.

PemPem offers a traceability solution adapted to smallholders that is helping to advance the sustainability transformation of the palm fruit supply chain.

With Niaga, PemPem positions itself as a market-maker, enabling the digital and real-world transaction between palm fruit producers and buyers.

PemPem Founder-CEO Joann de Zegher had the opportunity to pitch to over 600 investors gathered for the Winter 2022 cohort at Pear VC Demo Day.

PemPem Founder-CEO Joann de Zegher is congratulated by Sughanya Umapathy of RBC at the awards ceremony co-hosted by CDL-Montreal and NextAI.

At the final Session Day event for CDL-Montreal’s 9-month startup mentorship program, PemPem was chosen as “Feature Venture” for the CLD Super Session taking place from June 22-23.

Article published on the World Economic Forum Agenda describes how UpLink Top Innovator PemPem is helping Indonesian farmers move from cash to digital payments.

Cultivhacktion, a hackathon for agritech solutions in Indonesia, has named the three digital platforms as its winners.

Over the past 20 years, more than 60 million hectares of primary forest have been lost in the tropics, equivalent to an area the size of France, with an increasing demand for most forest risk commodities being driven by a higher per capita consumption.

The Tropical Forest Alliance hosted by the World Economic Forum has named PemPem Top UpLink Innovator as winner of the Tropical Forest Commodities Challenge for its impact on reducing deforestation.