Fahad Ifaz

About Fahad Ifaz

Fahad Ifaz is the Co-Founder and CEO of iFarmer, an agri-fintech and supply-chain platform built to give smallholder farmers in Bangladesh access to financing and reliable markets. As The Business Standard reported, the company has raised more than two million dollars to expand that model.

A Decade in Development Work Before Founding

Before starting iFarmer, Ifaz spent close to ten years in market systems and private sector-led development, designing and managing multimillion-dollar projects across South Asia with organizations including the World Bank, CARE International, Swisscontact, and Palladium. That work focused specifically on improving smallholder farmers' access to finance and markets, the exact problem he later built a company around.

He holds a BBA in Economics and International Business and an MSc in International Economics, both from North South University, along with an Agri Business Management degree from the Asian Institute of Technology. He has also completed the Making Markets Work program at the Springfield Centre in the UK and holds certifications from the London School of Economics in Competitive Strategy and Innovation.

Turning Development Experience Into a Company

Ifaz co-founded iFarmer in 2018 alongside a friend, Jamil M Akbar, who serves as Co-founder and COO. Rather than starting from an academic framework, the company was built directly on the operational lessons Ifaz had absorbed from years of advisory work inside donor-funded agriculture projects.

That background shaped iFarmer's model: instead of simply lending to farmers, the platform connects individual and institutional sponsors directly to specific farming projects, giving smallholders working capital while giving sponsors visibility into where their money goes.

Building a Farm Financing and Supply Chain Platform

Under Ifaz's leadership, iFarmer has grown into a platform spanning agriculture financing, input supply, and market access for smallholder farmers across Bangladesh. The company now operates from offices in both Dhaka and Singapore, reflecting its ambition to serve a market that extends beyond Bangladesh's borders.

Scaling With Investor Backing

iFarmer has raised more than two million dollars in funding to expand its farmer financing and supply-chain operations, capital that has supported its growth from an early-stage idea into a multi-year agri-tech platform. That funding has let the company deepen its presence in specific crop and livestock categories rather than spreading thin across every part of Bangladesh's agriculture sector.

Ifaz continues to lead iFarmer's growth, applying the development-sector discipline of measuring real farmer outcomes to a venture-backed technology company.