Varaha is a tech-enabled platform for generating carbon credits via nature-based solutions. Globally, over 500 million smallholder farmers are affected by climate change. However, there are no financial incentives for most to adopt agricultural practices that reduce GHG emissions and improve carbon sequestration. With over 150 companies pledging to become…

Omnivore’s mission is to make Indian agriculture and food systems more profitable, sustainable, resilient, and climate-proof. While we are active investors in digital platforms and tech-enabled marketplaces, we believe some of the most important innovations for Indian farmers will come from the agrifood life sciences (ALFS) ecosystem. …

Suite42 is a B2B food processing platform providing contract manufacturing solutions for diverse B2B clients across the FMCG, agribusiness, and grocery industries. Though India is one of the world’s largest producers of agricultural commodities, our food processing industry (FPI) has never realized its full potential. On one hand, demand for…

Notes on charting a new course for the future of Indian agriculture — From a handful of mavericks taking on complex challenges in 2011, today India has over 1000 agritech startups, all striving to iron out inefficiencies in agricultural value chains. The profile of entrepreneurs driving agritech innovations has also changed over the years. We are increasingly seeing co-founders with elite engineering/MBA…

Tractor Junction is empowering Indian farmers with access to affordable, high-quality rural vehicles — India has emerged as the world’s largest manufacturer of tractors, and the pace of farm mechanization has grown exponentially in the last fifty years. However, despite fierce competition among manufacturers, farmers who want to buy rural vehicles have to navigate information opacity, unfair pricing, and poor options for buying used…

How is Krishify building India’s first content-centric agriverse? — We are now two decades into social media, which is increasingly the primary world where we live, laugh, and learn. Social media platforms have obliterated geographical barriers and radically changed how we consume information and conduct businesses. Despite their global ubiquity, social networks have only begun to penetrate across rural…

Come 1st February, all eyes will be on India’s fiscal future, a welcome respite from COVID-dominated headlines. Last year’s budget had a clear focus on rural infrastructure creation. Key announcements for the agri sector included improving credit flow, especially to the allied sectors and the pan-India extension of the SVAMITVA…

BioPrime is building a future where better and more sustainable crop yields are guaranteed — While investor interest in Indian agritech accelerated over the past few years, VCs have focused exclusively on digital technologies, neglecting innovations in agrifood life sciences that could help transform the lives of farmers and rural communities. Biological solutions are one of the largest untapped opportunities in agrifood life sciences, and…

Whether developed by accelerators or research institutes, life sciences research and development infrastructure must be made available to entrepreneurs. — Over the past few years, the transformative impact of technology on Indian agriculture has reached an inflexion point, and investor interest in agritech is at an all-time high. However, virtually all of the current startup activity and venture investing in agritech focuses on digital technologies, e-commerce, full-stack farmer platforms, rural…