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The State of Indian Agritech (2026): A Sector-Wide Ranking
Dilip Pungliya
10 Sept 2026
A metrics-based framework covering the full breadth of India's agritech landscape, full-stack platforms, agri consideration, supply chain, agri-fintech, precision farming, drones, dairy tech, post-harvest quality, and D2C protein, benchmarked against national digital-agriculture adoption data.
Sizing the Sector
India now has somewhere between 5,100 and 5,400 dedicated agritech startups, depending on which tracker's sector boundary is used. Of this, roughly 800–820 are funded and 150–160 have reached Series A or beyond. Cumulative sector funding sits at roughly $6.4–6.6 billion, concentrated heavily in Bengaluru (over $1.6B raised across 560+ companies) and Delhi-NCR (~$1B across ~450 active companies). Annual funding has cooled from the 2021 peak of roughly $1.2–1.4B a year to under $850M in 2026 year-to-date, in line with the broader global startup slowdown, not something unique to agriculture.
This research widens the lens beyond a top-10 cut. It profiles 28 companies spanning nine distinct business models, so a full-stack platform serving smallholders in Bihar and a satellite-SaaS company selling to European food processors are compared on the same framework but not forced into a single ranked list where they don't actually compete.
What Makes a Company "Agritech"? The Parameter Framework
"Agritech" spans everything from input e-commerce apps to satellite-data SaaS, aquaculture platforms, sericulture supply chains, and farm-equipment rental networks. To assess and rank companies across that spread, this report uses a four-pillar framework Digital Transformation, Innovation, Sustainability, and Thought Leadership broken into subcategories. It is important to note that while no single company is expected to excel in every area, we transparently flag gaps in agritech-specific data for each subcategory rather than filling them in with a guess, so the honest limits of the ranking are visible alongside the ranking itself.
Digital Transformation
How digitised the company's core operating cycle is, from internal governance to how goods, money, and products move through the value chain. - Rated in Section 4
- Team Governance: would require board/management-structure and internal decision-rights data. Not scored.
- Supply Cycle (Market Access + Price Realisation): how efficiently goods and price signals move from farm to buyer.
- Product Governance (Input & Tooling Access + Credit & Financial Access): how tightly the company manages the catalogue of physical inputs and financial products it distributes to farmers.
Innovation
The company's competitive advantage from the innovative use of technology, automation, and problem-solving across both the farm and the broader enterprise.
- Team Enterprises: would require data on internal venture units or intrapreneurship programs. Not scored.
- Task & Enterprise-Level Automation (Data & Technology Stack): AI/IoT/satellite automation at the farm-task and enterprise-SaaS levels.
- Yield & Productivity Gains: the direct, measurable output of agronomic and technological innovation.
- Connectivity (Information & Advisory Access): timely advisory, weather, and market intelligence reaching the farmer.
- Facility Automation (Post-Harvest & Storage Infrastructure): cold-chain, solar cold storage, and warehouse automation.
- Design Thinking: farmer-usable, vernacular UX is embedded in most advisory apps but isn't separately tracked as a design discipline. Not scored.
Sustainability
The company's internal approach to ESG, and new in this edition, the measurable environmental impact of what it actually sells to farmers.
- Talent Readiness: would require internal HR/skilling metrics. Not scored.
- Carbon Neutral: would require formal emissions accounting or a corporate carbon-neutrality claim. Not scored.
- Workspace Development & Learning: an internal employee-experience metric not tracked here. Not scored.
- Net Zero: would require a disclosed net-zero target and roadmap. Not scored.
- Leadership Competency: would require leadership-assessment or board-quality data. Not scored.
- Climate & Resource Impact (Farm-Level Environmental Outcomes): newly scored in this edition. Unlike the five subcategories above, which require internal corporate disclosures that no company here publishes in a comparable form, this one has a genuine public proxy: does the company's core product measurably reduce water use, chemical/input overuse, spoilage-driven food waste, or fossil-fuel dependence at the farm level, based on the company's own disclosed impact claims? This is still a company-reported metric, not an audited one. See the caveat in Section 2. Still, it is at least something, whereas the other five Sustainability subcategories are structurally nothing.
Thought Leadership
The company's visibility, credibility, and strategic communication within the market.
- Structure and Management: organisational design/management-layer information isn't part of this framework. Not scored.
- Inter/Intra-Company Profile Collaboration: would require mapping of partnerships, JVs, and cross-company initiatives. Not scored.
- Media Content: press coverage of funding events is a byproduct, not a tracked content/media metric. Not scored.
- Strategy and Governance: would require board/strategy disclosure information. Not scored.
- Credibility (Farmer Reach & Scale): scale of adoption (farmers/acres/tonnes touched) is the clearest external proof point of market credibility.
- PR and Depth of Ideas (Funding Momentum & Trajectory): capital raises are the most visible PR events and signal investor conviction.
The Companies
These companies were selected to represent the full spread of the framework above from full-stack platforms to point-solution specialists in yield, price, storage, finance, and mechanisation rather than only the largest or oldest firms. "Upcoming" here means actively scaling and raising capital, not necessarily brand-new.
| Code | Company | HQ | Founded | Total Funding Raised |
| DH | DeHaat | Gurugram, Haryana | 2012 | $270M+ raised to date (Series E and beyond; backers include Sofina, Prosus, Temasek) |
| UN | Unnati (+ Gramophone) | Noida, Uttar Pradesh | 2017 | $30M+ reported (totals vary by debt/equity treatment); backers include NABVENTURES, Orios Venture Partners, Incofin, Info Edge — Info Edge added ~₹35 Cr in 2026 as part of the Gramophone transaction, plus ₹17 Cr debt from Recur Club |
| MK | Mahindra Krish-e | Mumbai, Maharashtra | 2020 | Not separately disclosed — funded internally by Mahindra & Mahindra as a Farm Equipment Sector business vertical, not through conventional startup rounds |
| NC | Ninjacart | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2015 | $300M+ raised across multiple rounds, including $100M from Tiger Global (2019) and $145M from Flipkart/Walmart (2021); backers include Accel, Syngenta Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures |
| BJ | Bijak | Gurugram, Haryana | 2019 | ~$36.4M across four rounds, including a $19.37M Series B (Jan 2022); backers include Bertelsmann India Investments, RTP Global, Omnivore, Omidyar Network India, Sequoia Surge, Better Capital |
| AB | AgriBazaar | Gurugram (StarAgri group) | 2016 | No major standalone VC funding disclosed — built primarily through parent StarAgri (~₹24 Cr founder investment); StarAgri backed by Temasek and Investcorp |
| AY | Arya.ag | Noida, Uttar Pradesh | 2013 | ~$199.5M+ raised to date, including an $80.6M Series D (Jan 2026) and $46M Series C equity (2022) |
| EZ | Ecozen Solutions | Pune, Maharashtra | 2010 | ~$107M+ across equity and debt, including a $25M Series C (2023), $30M mixed debt/equity (2024), and $23M+ debt financing (2025) |
| SM | Samunnati | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | 2014 | ₹587 Cr (~$75M) in reported equity funding as of 2021; backers include Elevar Equity, Accel, responsAbility, Nuveen |
| AG | Agrim | Gurugram, Haryana | 2020 | ~$31.3M across four rounds, including $10M Series A (2022) and $17.3M Series B (2024) led by Asia Impact; backers include Omnivore, India Quotient, Accion Venture Lab, Kalaari Capital, Axis Bank |
| CI | CropIn | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2010 | ~$44.1M+ across rounds, including $8M Series B, $20M Series C (2021), $14M (2023); backers include ABC Impact, Chiratae Ventures, Google, JSR Corporation |
| FS | Fasal | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2018 | ~$18M+ raised (2019–2023); largest round ₹100 Cr (~$12M) Series A (2023) co-led by BII and TDK Ventures; other backers include 3one4 Capital, Omnivore, Wavemaker Partners, Genting Ventures |
| FM | Farmonaut | India | 2019 | Bootstrapped — no institutional funding round publicly reported; started with ₹3 lakh of bootstrapped capital |
| FY | Fyllo | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2019 | ~$6.37M+ across four rounds, including a $400K seed round (2021) and a $2M round (2022) |
| NR | Niqo Robotics (TartanSense) | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2015 (rebranded 2022) | ~$20M–$21M across seed, Series A and Series B ($2M in 2019, $5M in 2021, $13M in 2024) |
| GA | Garuda Aerospace | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | 2015 | ~₹160 Cr+ (~₹168 Cr+ including a later $1M round) disclosed through mid-2025, including a ₹100 Cr Series B led by Venture Catalysts at a reported $250M valuation |
| ST | Stellapps | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2011 | ~$76M+, including a $26M equity-and-debt round (Oct 2024) and an $18M Series C (2021) |
| IL | Intello Labs | Gurugram, Haryana | 2016 | ~$20.86M+ across six rounds (last reported Dec 2022): $2M seed, $5.9M Series A (2020), $5M Series A-II (2021), $2.82M Series B (2022) |
| FH | FreshToHome | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2015 | $320M+ in equity funding (as of 2026), including a $104M Series D led by Amazon Smbhav Venture Fund (2023) |
| CF | Captain Fresh | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2019 | ~$250M+ (as of March 2026), including a $28.8M pre-IPO round (Jan 2025) and $31.5M debt financing (March 2026) |
| AS | AgroStar | Pune, Maharashtra | 2013 | ~$218M+ across rounds, including $30M (Nov 2025, led by Just Climate), $6.7M (April 2025), and a $70M Series D (2021) |
| BH | BigHaat | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2015 | ~₹300 Cr (~$36–38M), including a $10M Series D (Feb 2026) led by Bidra Innovation Ventures |
| BA | BharatAgri | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2017 | ~$21M+, including a $4.3M Series A (Oct 2023) led by Arkam Ventures |
| KG | KhetiGaadi | Pune, Maharashtra | 2016 | Bootstrapped — no significant institutional funding publicly disclosed |
| SC | Share Croppers Pvt. Ltd. (SCPL) | Pune, Maharashtra | 2023 | No institutional/VC funding publicly disclosed; model built around partnerships, CSR, and PPP participation |
| SCP | Sonali's Consumer Products | Maharashtra | 2020 | Not VC-funded — raised capital via a BSE SME IPO (June 2023); no reliable cumulative VC-funding figure available |
| SWF | Sarveshwar Foods | Jammu & Kashmir | 1890 (present entity, 4th generation) | Not VC-funded — publicly listed company; raised ₹149.95 Cr via a rights issue in FY26 |
| MM | Magicmyna | Bengaluru, Karnataka | 2021 | Raised approximately $747K across 2 rounds; latest reported Seed round of ~$627K in October 2025, with investors including Suman Aerotech |
Methodology & Rating Scale
Of the 20 subcategories listed above, 9 now carry a score (with the addition of Climate & Resource Impact) and 11 remain explicitly unscored because no comparable public dataset exists across companies for them. Ratings are a qualitative, analyst-style assessment based on each company's publicly disclosed business model, product offering, funding history, and press coverage as of August 2026, not an official or company-reported score, and not derived from a standardised, audited benchmark. Three levels are used:
- High: a core, well-developed part of the company's offering, central to its value proposition.
- Med: the company touches this area, but it's a secondary feature or partially developed.
- Low: little to no meaningful offering in this area.
Key finding, stated up front: none of the 28 companies rates "High" across all nine scored parameters. Each is strong in a cluster of two to five and weak or absent in the rest, and that's more true, not less, now that this list covers a wider spread of business models rather than a curated top 10.
A caveat specific to the new Climate & Resource Impact metric: most of the underlying claims that feed this score (water savings, spoilage reduction, chemical-use reduction) are company-disclosed figures from press releases, pitch decks, or founder interviews, not third-party audited impact assessments. We score them because a public, if unverified, claim is still more informative than silence but "High" on this metric means "the company makes a credible, specific environmental claim," not "an auditor has confirmed it."
Sector Scorecard
Pillar scores are shown at the summary level (Digital Transformation / Innovation / Thought Leadership); full subcategory detail for the ten most-funded names is in Section 5.
Group 1
Subcategory (mapped parameter) | DH | UN | MK | NC | BJ | AB | AY | EZ | SM |
| Digital Transformation | |||||||||
| Team Governance: not scored | |||||||||
| Supply Cycle (Market Access + Price Realisation) | High | Med | Med | High | High | Med | High | Med | Med |
| Product Governance (Input & Tooling Access + Credit & Financial Access) | High | Med | Med | Low | Med | Low | Med | Med | Med |
| → Pillar Score | High | Med | Med | Med | Med | Low | High | Med | Med |
| Innovation | |||||||||
| Team Enterprises: not scored | |||||||||
| Task & Enterprise-Level Automation (Data & Technology Stack) | Med | Med | Med | Med | Med | Low | Med | Med | Med |
| Innovation (Yield & Productivity Gains) | Med | Low | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low |
| Connectivity (Information & Advisory Access) | High | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med |
| Facility Automation (Post-Harvest & Storage Infrastructure) | Med | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low | High | High | Med |
| Design Thinking: not scored | |||||||||
| → Pillar Score | Med | Low | Med | Med | Low | Low | Med | Med | Med |
| Sustainability | |||||||||
| Talent Readiness / Carbon Neutral / Workspace Development / Net Zero / Leadership Competency: not scored | |||||||||
| Climate & Resource Impact (Farm-Level Environmental Outcomes) | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low | Med | High | Low |
| → Pillar Score | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low | Med | High | Low |
| Thought Leadership | |||||||||
| Structure and Management / Inter-Company Collaboration / Media Content / Strategy and Governance: not scored | |||||||||
| Credibility (Farmer Reach & Scale) | High | Low | Med | High | Med | Low | Med | Med | Med |
| PR and Depth of Ideas (Funding Momentum & Trajectory) | High | Med | Low | High | Med | Low | High | Med | |
| → Pillar Score | High | Low | Low | High | Med | Low | High | High | Med |
Group 2
Subcategory (mapped parameter) | AG | CI | FS | FM | FY | NR | GA | MM | ST | IL |
| Digital Transformation | ||||||||||
| Team Governance: not scored | ||||||||||
| Supply Cycle (Market Access + Price Realisation) | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| Product Governance (Input & Tooling Access + Credit & Financial Access) | Med | Low | Med | Low | Low | Low | Med | High | Med | Low |
| → Pillar Score | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low |
| Innovation | ||||||||||
| Team Enterprises: not scored | ||||||||||
| Task & Enterprise-Level Automation (Data & Technology Stack) | Low | High | High | Med | Med | High | High | Low | High | High |
| Innovation (Yield & Productivity Gains) | Low | High | High | Med | Med | High | Med | Med | Med | Med |
| Connectivity (Information & Advisory Access) | Low | High | High | Med | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low |
| Facility Automation (Post-Harvest & Storage Infrastructure) | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low |
| Design Thinking: not scored | ||||||||||
| → Pillar Score | Low | High | High | Med | Med | Med | Med | Med | Med | Med |
| Sustainability | ||||||||||
| Talent Readiness / Carbon Neutral / Workspace Development / Net Zero / Leadership Competency: not scored | ||||||||||
| Climate & Resource Impact (Farm-Level Environmental Outcomes) | Low | Med | High | Med | Med | High | Med | Med | Med | Med |
| → Pillar Score | Low | Med | High | Med | Med | High | Med | Med | Med | Med |
| Thought Leadership | ||||||||||
| Structure and Management / Inter-Company Collaboration / Media Content / Strategy and Governance: not scored | ||||||||||
| Credibility (Farmer Reach & Scale) | Low | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Med | Low |
| PR and Depth of Ideas (Funding Momentum & Trajectory) | Low | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Med | Low |
| → Pillar Score | Low | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low | Med | Low |
Group 3
Subcategory (mapped parameter) | FH | CF | AS | BH | BA | KG | SC | SCP | SWF |
| Digital Transformation | |||||||||
| Team Governance: not scored | |||||||||
| Supply Cycle (Market Access + Price Realisation) | Med | Med | Med | Med | Low | Med | Low | Low | Med |
| Product Governance (Input & Tooling Access + Credit & Financial Access) | Low | Low | High | High | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| → Pillar Score | Low | Low | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| Innovation | |||||||||
| Team Enterprises: not scored | |||||||||
| Task & Enterprise-Level Automation (Data & Technology Stack) | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| Innovation (Yield & Productivity Gains) | Low | Low | High | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| Connectivity (Information & Advisory Access) | Low | Low | High | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| Facility Automation (Post-Harvest & Storage Infrastructure) | Med | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med |
| Design Thinking: not scored | |||||||||
| → Pillar Score | Low | Low | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| Sustainability | |||||||||
| Talent Readiness / Carbon Neutral / Workspace Development / Net Zero / Leadership Competency: not scored | |||||||||
| Climate & Resource Impact (Farm-Level Environmental Outcomes) | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low |
| → Pillar Score | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med | Low |
| Thought Leadership | |||||||||
| Structure and Management / Inter-Company Collaboration / Media Content / Strategy and Governance: not scored | |||||||||
| Credibility (Farmer Reach & Scale) | Med | Low | High | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Med |
| PR and Depth of Ideas (Funding Momentum & Trajectory) | Med | Med | High | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
| → Pillar Score | Med | Low | High | Med | Low | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Nine Segments of the Indian Agritech Landscape
- Full-stack platforms (DeHaat, and increasingly Unnati post-Gramophone-merger) try to own inputs, advisory, credit, and market access under one roof. DeHaat remains the only one with genuine breadth across all four; the Unnati–Gramophone combination (finalized January 2026) is the sector's clearest recent bet that consolidation, not organic build-out, is the faster route to full-stack coverage.
- Fresh-produce and commodity supply chain (Ninjacart, Bijak, AgriBazaar) attacks the same basic problem — too many intermediaries between farm and buyer — from different angles: B2B logistics (Ninjacart, commodity-trade transparency (Bijak), and marketplace price discovery (AgriBazaar). None of these four has a meaningful on-farm advisory or credit business.
- Input e-commerce and advisory (AgroStar, BigHaat, BharatAgri, Gramophone/Unnati) sell seeds, fertilizer, and crop-protection products digitally, usually bundled with an AI or expert-backed advisory app. AgroStar and BigHaat are the two with disclosed revenue scale (AgroStar's app has 5M+ downloads; BigHaat reports Rs.1,100 Cr+ FY25 revenue), both self-reported figures.
- Post-harvest finance and storage (Arya.ag, Ecozen Solutions) solve the problem that happens after a good harvest — distress sales and spoilage. Arya.ag is arguably the sector's most distinctive company by one specific metric: it reports being profitable (Rs.31.5 Cr profit, H1 FY26), a rarity among venture-funded Indian agritech names.
- Agri-fintech and FPO finance (Samunnati, Agrim) treat credit as the core product, not a bolt-on. Samunnati's network of ~1,500 FPOs representing an estimated 6 million smallholder members is the largest FPO-finance reach of any company in this article.
- Precision farming / IoT / satellite SaaS (CropIn, Fasal, Farmonaut, Fyllo, Niqo Robotics) are the sector's technology leaders on paper — highest Innovation-pillar scores across the board — but sell mostly to agribusinesses, exporters, and institutions rather than directly to smallholders, which caps their Thought Leadership (farmer-reach) scores. CropIn's 52-country, 220+ institutional-client footprint is the widest of this group; Fasal and Niqo Robotics are narrower but deeper within horticulture and robotics respectively.
- Drones and mechanization (Garuda Aerospace,) address India's structural problem of tiny, fragmented landholdings (89.4% of agricultural households farm under two hectares) by making capital equipment rentable or service-based rather than owned. Garuda's claimed ~50% share of India's precision-agritech drone market is a company figure, not independently audited.
- Dairy tech (Stellapps) is a segment none of the "top 10" full-stack or supply-chain players touch directly — Stellapps' IoT-based milk-quality and cold-chain traceability tools serve cooperatives and processors (reportedly including Amul and Mother Dairy), making it the closest thing India has to a dedicated dairy-tech leader.
- Post-harvest quality and D2C protein (Intello Labs, FreshToHome, Captain Fresh) sit at the consumer-facing or export-quality end of the chain, AI-based produce grading (Intello Labs) and direct-to-consumer or B2B seafood/meat supply chains (FreshToHome, Captain Fresh, the latter reportedly IPO-bound in 2026).
Company Profiles
Full-stack and near-full-stack
1. DeHaat
- Website: https://agrevolution.in/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dehaat/
- Founded: 2012, headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana (originally founded in Patna, Bihar)
- Founders: Shashank Kumar, Manish Kumar, Amrendra Singh, Shyam Sundar Singh, Adarsh Srivastav and Abhishek Dokania — six IIT/IIM alumni who launched the venture as Green Agrevolution Pvt. Ltd.
- Description: DeHaat is a full-stack agritech platform providing agricultural inputs, expert farm advisory, credit facilitation and market linkages for selling farm produce. Its phygital model combines digital technology with a large network of physical DeHaat Centres and local entrepreneurs, allowing it to provide services across multiple stages of the agricultural value chain. The company has also expanded into agricultural exports, private-label products, storage and food-processing-related activities. Recent company and media reports indicate that DeHaat operates across multiple Indian states and exports to 32 international markets, including markets in the UK, Europe and Southeast Asia. These geographic and export figures should be treated as company-reported.
- Total Funding: Approximately $221M in publicly reported institutional funding through 2025, including the $115M Series D and $60M Series E, plus earlier rounds. Some later databases and market summaries estimate cumulative funding at approximately $251M–$270M+, particularly when venture debt and other financing instruments are included. For a precise profile, use “$221M+ publicly reported equity/institutional funding; approximately $251M–$270M+ on broader aggregate estimates, including debt or other instruments.” Major investors include Sofina, Temasek, Prosus Ventures, Lightrock, Peak XV Partners/Sequoia Capital India, RTP Global and FMO.
- Strongest parameters: Market access, agricultural-input access, farmer information and advisory access, credit facilitation, farmer reach and integration across the agricultural value chain.
- Notable Gaps: Compared with specialist agritech platforms such as CropIn or Fasal, DeHaat’s publicly visible differentiation is stronger in farmer distribution, input access, advisory delivery and market linkage than in advanced precision agriculture, sensor-led farming or deep remote-sensing analytics. Its model is also less centred on dedicated cold-chain and storage infrastructure than specialised agricultural-infrastructure companies such as Arya.ag and Ecozen. These are comparative assessments rather than company-reported limitations.
2. Unnati (+ Gramophone)
- Website: https://unnati.ag/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unnatiagri
- Founded: Unnati was founded in 2017 and operates under Akshamaala Solutions Pvt. Ltd., with its headquarters in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Gramophone was founded in 2016, and was headquartered in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. It operated through Agstack Technologies Pvt. Ltd. before entering into a stock-swap transaction with Unnati in January 2026.
- Founders: Amit Sinha, Late Ashok Prasad, Tauseef Khan, Nishant Mahatre, Harshit Gupta.
- Description: Unnati is a full-stack agritech and agri-fintech platform with capabilities spanning agricultural-input distribution, farmer services, advisory, aggregation and financial services. Farmers can access seeds, fertilisers, crop-protection products and other agricultural inputs through Unnati’s partner and retailer network, alongside advisory and financing-related services. The Gramophone transaction adds an established farmer-facing digital marketplace and agri-input platform, together with technology-enabled advisory and farm-management capabilities. Gramophone’s historical model included the sale of seeds, fertilisers, nutrients, pesticides and farm equipment directly to farmers and through small retailers. Together, Unnati and Gramophone provide a broader agri-value-chain proposition covering input distribution, farm advisory, agricultural finance, retailer-led distribution, aggregation and market-linkage capabilities.
- Total Funding: Unnati has raised approximately $21M+ in publicly reported institutional funding, including its reported $11.3M Series B led by Zephyr Peacock in November 2025. Some funding databases report different totals, so the figure should be presented as an estimate rather than an audited cumulative amount.
- Strongest Parameters: Farmer reach, agri-input distribution, retailer and partner-store network, agricultural financing, supply-chain and aggregation capabilities, market linkage, Central India presence through Gramophone and digital farm-management technology.
- Notable Gaps: The combined business is dependent on effective distribution, retailer execution, inventory management and working-capital discipline. Compared with specialist agritech companies focused primarily on remote sensing, precision agriculture and advanced farm analytics, its publicly visible technology differentiation is less specialised. The Gramophone integration also creates additional operational, organisational and systems-integration complexity. These are comparative assessments rather than company-reported weaknesses.
3. Mahindra Krish-e
- Website: https://www.krishe.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/krishe
- Founded: 2020, launched by Mahindra & Mahindra’s Farm Equipment Sector as its Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS) business vertical.
- Founder: Hemant Sikka and Ramesh Ramachandran
- Description: Full-stack digital farming and mechanisation platform combining agronomy advisory, equipment rentals, precision farming, IoT-enabled farm solutions and digital crop-management services. Krish-e operates through Mahindra’s existing physical ecosystem alongside its digital apps, giving farmers access to advisory and mechanisation across the crop cycle. Its technology stack includes AI, IoT, satellite/remote sensing and equipment-connected solutions.
- Total Funding: Not separately disclosed, Krish-e is funded internally by Mahindra rather than through conventional startup funding rounds. Mahindra has separately invested in agtech companies supporting Krish-e, most notably Carnot Technologies, in which it increased its stake to approximately 69% in 2022.
- Notable Gap: Krish-e's model is more operationally intensive than a purely software-first agritech platform because it combines digital technology with equipment networks, physical centres and on-ground service delivery. Compared with specialist companies focused exclusively on remote sensing, AI-based crop intelligence or precision agriculture software, Krish-e may have less concentrated technological specialisation in any single area. Its main competitive advantage instead comes from combining technology with Mahindra's large mechanisation ecosystem and physical agricultural network.
Supply chain and commodity trading
4. Ninjacart
- Website: http://www.ninjacart.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ninja-cart/
- Founded: 2015, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Ninjacart initially started as an on-demand grocery delivery business before pivoting to a B2B fresh-produce supply-chain platform.
- Founders: Kartheeswaran K.K., Ashutosh Vikram, Sharath Loganathan and Vasudevan Chinnathambi.
- Description: Ninjacart is a technology-enabled B2B agri-marketplace and supply-chain platform connecting farmers, traders and suppliers with retailers, wholesalers and other businesses. Fresh produce remains a core part of its business. The company provides technology-driven commerce, fulfillment and trade-related financial solutions across the agricultural value chain, helping manage sourcing, aggregation, logistics, quality, demand and distribution. Its official platform now serves multiple categories of agricultural participants across both domestic and broader trade networks.
- Total Funding: $300M+ historically reported across multiple funding and financing rounds. Major investors include Walmart, Flipkart, Tiger Global, Accel, Syngenta and Qualcomm. Its largest publicly disclosed rounds include $100 million from Tiger Global in 2019 and $145 million from Flipkart and Walmart in 2021.
- Strongest Parameters: Farmer and trader network, agricultural market access, fresh-produce commerce, sourcing and aggregation, fulfilment, logistics, supply-chain infrastructure, retailer reach and technology-enabled agricultural trade.
- Notable Gap: Ninjacart's strongest capabilities are concentrated in agricultural commerce, fulfillment and post-harvest supply-chain infrastructure rather than deep on-farm technology. Compared with full-stack agritech platforms, it has a more limited focus on agronomy advisory, precision farming and proprietary crop intelligence. While it provides trade-related financial solutions, it is less centred on broad farmer-focused financial services than specialist agri-fintech platforms. Its capital- and operations-intensive supply-chain model also requires significant infrastructure and strong execution to scale efficiently and profitably.
5. Bijak
- Website: https://www.bijak.in/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bijakapp
- Founded: 2019, headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana. Bijak was launched in April 2019 as a B2B agricultural commodities trading marketplace.
- Founders: Nukul Upadhye, Mahesh Jakhotia, Jitender Bedwal, Daya Rai and Nikhil Tripathi.
- Description: Bijak is a technology-enabled B2B agricultural commodities marketplace connecting traders, wholesalers, suppliers, aggregators and other agricultural buyers and sellers. Its platform focuses on improving price discovery, counterparty trust, transaction records, payments and trade operations across India's agricultural market ecosystem. Bijak primarily operates within the trader and mandi ecosystem rather than functioning as a direct-to-farmer input or farm-management platform. Its business portfolio has expanded to include Bijak Vyapaar, Bijak Mandi and Bijak Global, alongside Just Fresh in the fresh-produce segment.
- Total Funding: Approximately $34M–$36M across publicly disclosed funding rounds, depending on how funding databases aggregate transactions. Major rounds included $2.5M in seed funding, a $12M Series A, and a $19.4M Series B in January 2022. Major investors include Bertelsmann India Investments, RTP Global, Omnivore, Omidyar Network India, Surge/Sequoia Capital India and Better Capital.
- Notable Gap: Bijak's strongest capabilities are concentrated in B2B agricultural trade infrastructure rather than farm-level technology. Compared with full-stack agritech platforms, it has relatively limited direct involvement in agricultural inputs, crop advisory, precision farming and farm-management services. Its publicly disclosed institutional equity funding activity has also appeared relatively quiet since the January 2022 Series B. Its model is therefore more specialised around strengthening the trader and commodity-market ecosystem than building a comprehensive farmer-facing technology platform.
6. AgriBazaar
- Website: http://www.agribazaar.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agribazaar-official
- Founded: 2016, launched as an online e-mandi/agri-trading marketplace by the StarAgri group.
- Founders / founding team: Amith Agarwal, Amit Goyal, Amit Khandelwal.
- Description: AgriBazaar is a digital agri-commodity trading and agritech platform connecting farmers, FPOs, traders, processors, corporates and institutional buyers. Its core proposition includes transparent price discovery, online trading and auctions, quality assessment, warehousing, logistics, agricultural finance and digital payments. The platform has also expanded into digital agriculture services including AI and data-driven farm intelligence, satellite-based crop monitoring, precision agriculture and crop advisory, making it broader than a conventional commodity marketplace.
- Total Funding: No major standalone VC funding rounds are prominently disclosed in the public sources reviewed. AgriBazaar was initially incubated and supported through the StarAgri ecosystem. Historical company reporting states that the founding team invested approximately ₹24 crore, with significant support coming through StarAgri. StarAgri has received institutional investment, including from Temasek Holdings.
- Notable Gap: AgriBazaar's strongest and most established differentiation remains agricultural trading, price discovery, market linkage and post-harvest infrastructure. Although it has expanded into precision agriculture, satellite-based monitoring and crop advisory, these farm-level technology capabilities are part of a broader platform rather than its sole core specialisation. Compared with dedicated precision-agriculture companies, its specialised farm-analytics differentiation may therefore be less concentrated. Its integration with broader physical infrastructure also makes its model less comparable with a lightweight, purely software-led marketplace.
Post-harvest finance and storage
7. Arya.ag
- Website: https://www.arya.ag/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aryadotag
- Founded: 2013, headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The present founders took control of the business in 2013 and evolved it from a warehousing-focused operation into an integrated grain-commerce and post-harvest finance platform.
- Founders: Prasanna Rao, Anand Chandra and Chattanathan Devarajan
- Description: Arya.ag is an integrated grain-commerce, storage and agricultural finance platform. It provides warehousing and collateral-management services, connects buyers and sellers of agricultural commodities, and enables financing against stored commodities through its financial-services ecosystem. Its core value proposition is helping farmers, FPOs and agricultural businesses avoid distress sales by allowing produce to be stored, financed and sold when market conditions are more favourable. While its deepest capabilities remain in post-harvest infrastructure, the company has increasingly expanded into farm insights, Smart Farm Centres and climate-smart agricultural services, creating a broader pre-harvest-to-post-harvest value-chain model.
- Total Funding: Approximately $199.5M+ across reported equity and debt financing rounds. This includes an approximately $80.58M Series D equity investment in January 2026, a $46M Series C round in 2022, and earlier equity and debt financing. Funding totals should be treated as aggregate figures because databases differ in how they classify debt facilities and other transactions.
- Strongest Parameters: Post-harvest infrastructure, warehousing, collateral management, grain commerce, market access, commodity-backed finance, farmer and FPO financing, and storage-linked value-chain integration.
- Notable Gap: Arya.ag's deepest and most established capabilities remain post-harvest infrastructure, grain commerce and storage-linked finance. Although it is expanding into pre-harvest farm insights and climate-smart agriculture, it remains less specialised in farm inputs, dedicated precision agriculture and advanced on-field crop decision systems than specialist farm-tech companies. Its model is also relatively infrastructure- and working-capital-intensive because of its dependence on warehousing networks, commodity handling and storage-linked finance.
8. Ecozen Solutions
- Website: https://www.ecozensolutions.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecozen-solutions
- Founded: 2010, headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra. Ecozen was founded by three IIT Kharagpur alumni and initially focused on clean-energy solutions for agriculture.
- Founders: Devendra Gupta, Prateek Singhal and Vivek Pandey
- Description: Ecozen is a climate-smart agritech and deeptech company focused primarily on sustainable irrigation and decentralised cold-chain infrastructure. Its flagship products include Ecofrost, a technology-enabled decentralised cold-storage solution using thermal-energy storage, and Ecotron, an intelligent solar pump controller that uses advanced motor controls, IoT connectivity and remote monitoring to improve irrigation efficiency. Ecozen also develops underlying deeptech capabilities in motor controls, energy storage, IoT and data analytics. Its strongest role is in agricultural infrastructure, irrigation efficiency and post-harvest loss reduction, although the company also positions its technology within a broader agricultural value-chain ecosystem.
- Total Funding: Approximately $107.4M+ across reported equity and debt financing rounds, according to recent funding databases. Major disclosed financings include $25M in combined equity and debt capital associated with its Series C financing, $30M in mixed debt and equity financing in 2024, and more than $23M in debt financing in January 2025. Funding totals should be treated as aggregate figures because databases differ in how they classify equity, debt and financing facilities.
- Notable Gap: Ecozen is highly differentiated in physical climate-smart infrastructure, but its role is narrower than that of full-stack agritech platforms. Compared with integrated agricultural platforms, it has relatively limited involvement in commodity trading, farmer credit, agricultural input distribution and broad farm advisory. Its hardware-led model also requires manufacturing, installation, servicing and greater capital investment than a purely software-first agritech platform.
Agri-fintech
9. Samunnati
- Website: http://www.samunnati.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/samunnati
- Founded: 2014, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Samunnati was established as an agri-focused NBFC with an AMLA (Aggregation, Market Linkage and Advisory) approach.
- Founder: Anil Kumar S.G., Gurunath N
- Description: Samunnati is an agri-finance and agricultural value-chain platform focused on working-capital finance, market linkages, agricultural commerce and advisory and capacity-building services. Its model primarily works with FPOs, farmer collectives and agricultural enterprises rather than functioning solely as a direct-to-individual-farmer lender. Samunnati has historically reported access to 1,500+ farmer collectives representing more than 6 million farmers, across 100+ agricultural value chains and 22 states. Later company materials have reported a network of 3,000+ farmer collectives, meaning the reported network size varies by period.
- Total Funding: Samunnati historically reported cumulative equity funding of ₹587 crore, approximately $75M at the time, from investors including Nuveen, Elevar Equity, Accel and responsAbility. The company has also raised debt financing separately, meaning its overall capital mobilisation extends beyond this equity-only figure.
- Operational scale / evidence: Samunnati has reported access to millions of farmers through farmer collectives, FPOs and agricultural enterprises across 100+ agricultural value chains and more than 20 Indian states. Reported network figures vary by period, with earlier disclosures citing 1,500+ farmer collectives and later materials reporting 3,000+.
- Notable Gap: Samunnati's deepest differentiation lies in financial infrastructure, agricultural value-chain finance, aggregation and market linkage rather than proprietary agronomic or precision-farming technology. While technology supports its broader ecosystem, the company is less specialised in crop intelligence, remote sensing and farm-level decision tools than dedicated farm-tech platforms. Its model also reaches many farmers indirectly through FPOs, cooperatives and agricultural enterprises rather than through a purely direct-to-farmer platform.
10. Agrim
- Website: http://www.agrim.app
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agrimindia/
- Founded: April 2020, headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana. Agrim was established as a B2B digital marketplace focused on modernising India's fragmented agri-input distribution network.
- Founders: Mukul Garg and Avi Jain
- Description: B2B agri-input commerce and embedded-finance platform connecting rural agri-input retailers with manufacturers. Retailers can access a broad catalogue of seeds, crop-protection products, fertilizers and other farm supplies, with Agrim providing procurement, fulfilment, pricing intelligence, logistics and working-capital/credit solutions. The model is primarily retailer-focused rather than farmer-direct, using local agri-input shops as the last-mile channel to farmers.
- Total Funding: Approximately $29M–$31M across publicly reported funding rounds, depending on how funding databases classify early and undisclosed transactions. Major disclosed rounds include $2M in Seed funding in 2020, a $10M Series A in 2022, and a $17.3M Series B in August 2024 led by Asia Impact. Key investors include Asia Impact, Accion Venture Lab, Kalaari Capital, India Quotient, Omnivore, Axis Bank and British International Investment.
- Notable Gap: Agrim's core differentiation lies in B2B agri-input distribution and retailer enablement rather than direct farmer engagement or proprietary farm-level agronomic technology. It does not primarily operate as a precision-agriculture, satellite-intelligence or crop-management platform. Its retailer-centric model also means the company remains one step removed from the farmer, with local agricultural retailers continuing to provide the last-mile relationship and local market access. This makes Agrim highly scalable within the agricultural distribution ecosystem but less directly positioned in farm-level crop intelligence than specialist precision-agriculture companies.
Precision farming, IoT, and satellite SaaS
11. CropIn
- Website: https://www.cropin.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cropin-technology
- Founded: 2010, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. CropIn began as a digital farming technology company and later pivoted toward a B2B enterprise SaaS model, serving agribusinesses and other institutional stakeholders globally.
- Founders: Krishna Kumar, Kunal Prasad
- Description: Enterprise agri-intelligence and farm-management SaaS platform using satellite/remote-sensing data, weather information, field data and AI/ML to provide crop monitoring, yield prediction, pest and disease prediction, irrigation insights and farm-risk intelligence. CropIn primarily sells to agribusinesses, financial institutions, governments and development organisations, rather than directly to farmers. Its platform has expanded globally through Cropin Cloud and now incorporates AI-first agricultural intelligence.
- Total Funding: Approximately $42M–$44M+ across publicly reported funding rounds, depending on how databases classify early funding and later transactions. Major disclosed rounds include an $8M Series B in 2018, a $20M Series C in January 2021, and $14M in funding announced in January 2023 from Google, JSR Corporation, ABC Impact and Chiratae Ventures.
- Notable Gap: CropIn's strength is enterprise-level agricultural intelligence, not direct farmer engagement. Its B2B SaaS model means farmers generally access its technology indirectly through CropIn's institutional customers. It also competes in a technically demanding market where satellite data, AI models and farm-management software require continuous investment and high-quality ground data. Its reported footprint has grown substantially over time, so older figures such as 52+ countries and 5M+ acres should not be treated as current scale; CropIn now reports 30M+ acres digitised across 103 countries.
12. Fasal
- Website: https://www.fasal.co/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fasal
- Founded: 2018, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Fasal was established as a precision-agriculture platform focused initially on horticulture, using farm-level sensors, crop models and AI to provide crop- and stage-specific recommendations.
- Founders: Shailendra Tiwari and Ananda Verma
- Description: Fasal is a full-stack IoT and AI-powered precision-farming platform focused primarily on horticulture. It combines soil and weather sensors, microclimate monitoring, crop models and AI-driven intelligence to provide farm-specific irrigation, fertigation, pest and disease prediction, and crop-management recommendations. Its platform integrates sensing, predictive intelligence and automated responses to improve farm-level decision-making and resource efficiency. Fasal has expanded beyond India into Southeast Asia and currently reports operations across India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, with 100+ enterprise customers and 200,000 acres of individual growers. Its enterprise platform also reports serving customers across 12+ countries.
- Total Funding: Publicly reported funding totals vary depending on whether debt and different financing transactions are included. Major disclosed rounds include a $4M pre-Series A in 2021 and a ₹100 crore, approximately $12M, Series A financing in December 2023, led by TDK Ventures and British International Investment. Existing investors participating in the 2023 round included 3one4 Capital, Omnivore, Wavemaker Partners, Genting Ventures and The Yield Labs Asia Pacific.
- Notable Gap: Fasal's key strength is precision farming for high-value horticulture, but this remains a relatively narrow crop focus compared with broad-acre/full-stack agritech platforms. Its hardware-plus-software model also requires farm-level deployment and ongoing infrastructure, making scaling more operationally intensive than software-only platforms. The very large water-savings figures should also be treated as company-attributed impact claims, rather than independently audited sector-wide measurements.
13. Farmonaut
- Website: https://farmonaut.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/farmonaut
- Founded: 2019; Farmonaut Technologies was incorporated in April 2019, following an earlier 2018 product launch.
- Founders: Akash Omar and Ankur Omar
- Description: Farmonaut is a satellite-based agricultural intelligence and precision-agriculture platform that provides crop-health monitoring, NDVI and vegetation analysis, soil-moisture and water-stress insights, weather intelligence and AI-powered agricultural decision support. The platform uses satellite and geospatial data alongside proprietary AI models to provide actionable information for farmers and agricultural stakeholders. Farmonaut also offers APIs and institutional solutions for agribusinesses, governments, financial institutions and other organisations.
- Funding Model: Primarily bootstrapped. Farmonaut reportedly began with ₹3 lakh of bootstrapped capital and, according to 2025 reporting, had not raised a conventional institutional equity funding round. The company has nevertheless received grants and other forms of non-equity support, meaning it should not be described as having received absolutely no external financial support.
- Notable Gap: Compared with CropIn, Farmonaut has a much smaller disclosed funding base and appears more dependent on satellite-data/AI monitoring than on a broader enterprise agriculture-management ecosystem; this can limit resources for scaling institutional deployments and building deeper proprietary data infrastructure.
14. Fyllo
- Website: http://www.fyllo.in
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fyllo
- Founded: 2019, Bengaluru; legally operated by Agrihawk Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Founders: Sudhanshu Rai and Sumit Sheoran.
- Description: Precision-agriculture platform combining IoT sensors, real-time soil and weather data, AI and crop-specific agronomy models. Its core use cases include precision irrigation, fertigation, disease/pest prediction and hyperlocal weather forecasting through its DeepMet model, with a strong focus on horticulture and high-value crops.
- Total Funding: Approximately $6.37M+ across four reported funding rounds, according to Inc42. Major disclosed financings include approximately $400K in seed funding in 2021, $2M in funding in May 2022, and a reported $3.96M venture round in May 2024. Funding totals may vary depending on how databases classify undisclosed early rounds.
- Notable Gap: Smaller funding base than Fasal and still hardware-dependent, requiring sensor deployment and field-level adoption. Its strongest differentiation is precision irrigation and farm-level sensing, but that also makes scaling more operationally intensive than software-only agritech platforms.
15. Niqo Robotics (TartanSense)
- Website: https://niqorobotics.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/niqorobotics
- Founded: 2015 in Bengaluru as TartanSense; rebranded as Niqo Robotics in 2022.
- Founder: Jaisimha Rao
- Description: AI-powered agricultural robotics company focused on precision spraying and weeding. Its Niqo Sense computer-vision system identifies crops, weeds and target plants in real time and can retrofit conventional farm equipment, reducing chemical use while improving application precision.
- Total Funding: Approximately $20M–$21M across publicly disclosed Seed, Series A and Series B financing. Major reported rounds include $2M in Seed funding in 2019, $5M in Series A funding in 2021 and $13M in Series B funding in 2024. Funding databases differ slightly on the cumulative total, while company and press coverage following the 2024 Series B reported approximately $21M raised overall.
- Notable Gap: Niqo's robotics and hardware-based model makes it more capital- and operations-intensive than software-led precision-agriculture platforms such as Fasal or CropIn. Scaling requires successful hardware deployment, equipment compatibility, field testing and consistent performance across different crops, climates and farm conditions. Although Niqo's ability to integrate its technology with existing agricultural equipment can reduce adoption barriers, physical deployment and operational support remain more demanding than for software-only platforms. The company's claims of up to 90% reductions in chemical usage should be treated as company-reported performance figures rather than independently verified sector-wide measurements.
Drones and mechanisation
16. Garuda Aerospace
- Website: http://www.garudaaerospace.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/garuda-aerospace-private-limited/
- Founded: 2015, Chennai. Garuda began with an agriculture-focused drone business and has since expanded into drone manufacturing, Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS), pilot training and defence applications.
- Founder: Agnishwar Jayaprakash
- Description: Drone technology company developing and manufacturing UAVs for precision agriculture and other industrial applications, alongside DaaS and pilot-training services. It reports 400+ drones operating across 84 cities, 30+ drone types and 20+ patents; these operating-scale figures are company-reported.
- Total Funding: Approximately $37M+ across eight reported funding rounds, according to Inc42. Major recent financings include a ₹100 Cr (~$11.7M) Series B round in April 2025 led by Venture Catalysts, raised at a reported $250M valuation, followed by a $1M funding round in June 2025 involving the Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office and other investors. Funding databases may differ depending on how earlier rounds and undisclosed transactions are counted.
- Notable Gap: Compared with software-led precision-ag players, Garuda is substantially more hardware-, manufacturing- and service-intensive, with economics dependent on drone production, pilots and field operations. Its agricultural positioning is also increasingly being complemented by defence and industrial applications, making it less narrowly focused on farm-level precision agriculture.
17. MagicMyna
- Website: https://magicmyna.in/
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/magicmyna-private-limited
- Founded: 2021, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. MagicMyna Private Limited is a DPIIT-recognised deep-tech UAV startup headquartered in Bengaluru, with R&D and production facilities in Coimbatore and operations extending to other locations including Rajasthan.
- Founders: Sunil Soman Nair, Sanju Kalam, Mohamed Amin (Amin Sulaiman) and Zujar Pardiwala
- Description: MagicMyna is an Indian deep-tech drone and UAV company that designs, manufactures and deploys commercial unmanned aerial systems. Its solutions serve multiple sectors, particularly precision agriculture, logistics, industrial applications, surveillance, defence and emergency response operations. The company offers agricultural drones for activities such as precision spraying, multispectral scouting and automated flight operations, alongside Drone-as-a-Service offerings for mapping, spraying and inspections. MagicMyna also develops customised UAV systems, including defence applications such as the Munutrix/MuniTrix Mortar Shell Drop System, and operates DGCA-authorised drone pilot training programmes. Its product portfolio includes the Hexa Agri Pro, a DGCA type-certified medium-class agricultural drone, alongside other commercial UAV platforms.
- Total Funding: Public funding information is limited. The Company Check reports that MagicMyna has raised approximately $747K across two funding rounds, with investors including Suman Aerotech and T & I Global. However, other startup databases list its funding as undisclosed. Therefore, approximately $747K should be treated as a database-reported figure rather than a fully independently verified cumulative funding total.
- Notable Gap: MagicMyna has a differentiated position in India's growing drone ecosystem, particularly through its combination of in-house manufacturing, agricultural drones, defence applications and Drone-as-a-Service capabilities. However, its business is still relatively specialised around UAV technology rather than being a broader end-to-end agritech platform. In agriculture, drones can improve spraying and crop intelligence, but adoption can depend on operator availability, regulatory requirements, training and the economics of drone services for individual farmers. Its hardware-heavy model may also require greater manufacturing, maintenance and operational capabilities compared with purely software-based agritech companies.
Dairy tech
18. Stellapps
- Website: http://www.stellapps.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stellapps-technologies-private-limited
- Founded: 2011, Bengaluru; IIT Madras–incubated dairy-technology company focused on digitising the dairy supply chain.
- Founders: Praveen Nale, Ramakrishna Adukuri, Ranjith Mukundan, Ravishankar Shiroor and Venkatesh Seshasayee.
- Description: End-to-end dairy technology platform using IoT, machine learning and data analytics across milk production, procurement, herd monitoring, quality and cold-chain management. Its SmartMoo platform uses sensors, animal wearables and milk-procurement equipment to digitise dairy operations; Stellapps says the platform touches 2+ billion litres of milk annually. Its site also features deployments involving Amul/Banas Dairy and Godrej’s Creamline Dairy Products.
- Total Funding: ~$76M+ according to Inc42, including a $26M equity-and-debt round in October 2024 and an $18M Series C in 2021. Funding databases vary in how they classify debt and earlier rounds, so $76M+ is best treated as the reported cumulative figure.
- Notable Gap: Stellapps is highly differentiated in dairy, but its vertical specialisation is also its constraint: unlike horizontal agritech platforms, its addressable market is concentrated around livestock, milk procurement and dairy value chains. Its IoT/hardware-heavy model also makes deployment more operationally intensive than pure software platforms.
Post-harvest quality and D2C protein
19. Intello Labs
- Website: http://www.intellolabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intellolabs
- Founded: 2016, Gurugram. Intello Labs was established to bring objective, technology-driven quality assessment to fresh-produce supply chains.
- Founders: Milan Sharma, Nishant Mishra, Himani Shah
- Description: AI/computer-vision platform for automated produce quality assessment, grading, sorting and traceability, serving growers, packhouses, traders, exporters, retailers and other food businesses. Its technology evaluates attributes such as size, colour and defects, reducing reliance on subjective manual grading.
- Total Funding: ~$20.86M+ across six reported rounds, with the latest reported funding in December 2022. Major disclosed rounds include a $2M seed round, $5.9M Series A in 2020, $5M Series A-II in 2021 and $2.82M Series B in 2022.
- Notable Gap: Primarily a post-harvest quality/automation platform, rather than a farm-level agronomy, input or financial-services player. Its hardware and computer-vision systems also require integration into packhouses and produce-handling workflows, making deployment more operationally intensive than software-only agritech.
20. FreshToHome
- Website: http://freshtohome.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/freshtohome-foods-private-limited
- Founded: 2015, Bengaluru. FreshToHome operates as a D2C fresh fish and meat platform, sourcing directly from fishermen and farmers and selling to consumers.
- Founders: Shan Kadavil and Mathew Joseph
- Description: D2C fresh-food platform focused on fish, seafood, poultry, mutton and ready-to-cook products, supported by its own sourcing, processing and cold-chain network. It expanded into quick commerce in 2025, offering 10–15 minute delivery in selected markets.
- Total Funding: $320M+ in equity funding, according to 2026 reporting. This includes a $104M Series D round in February 2023, led by the Amazon Sambhav Venture Fund. At the time of the Series D, FreshToHome reported that its cumulative funding had exceeded $250M; the higher $320M+ figure reflects subsequent equity financing reported by 2026. FreshToHome also approved approximately ₹75 crore in debt financing in early 2026, which should be treated separately from its equity funding total.
- Notable Gap: Primarily a consumer food-delivery and supply-chain business rather than an agritech platform. Its model is capital- and operations-intensive because maintaining freshness requires sourcing infrastructure, processing facilities, cold chain and last-mile delivery; customer acquisition and unit economics remain key challenges.
21. Captain Fresh
- Website: http://www.captainfresh.in
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/captainfresh
- Founded: 2020, headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
- Founder: Utham Gowda
- Description: Tech-enabled B2B seafood supply-chain platform connecting fishermen and seafood suppliers with retailers, distributors and exporters. It uses demand-supply matching, e-auctions, standardised procurement, fulfilment and digital traceability, and has expanded internationally through acquisitions and distribution operations.
- Total Funding: Approximately $250M across reported equity and debt financing as of March 2026. Inc42 reports approximately $249.65M+ across 14 funding rounds. This includes a $28.8M pre-IPO funding round in January 2025 and approximately $31.5M in debt financing from Blue Earth Capital in March 2026. Funding databases may differ slightly depending on how transactions and financing types are classified.
- Notable Gap: Captain Fresh is highly concentrated in seafood/fresh-protein supply chains, rather than farm-level agritech. Its expansion has also involved substantial acquisitions and international operations, making the model operationally complex and capital-intensive compared with asset-light agricultural software platforms.
Input e-commerce and advisory
22. AgroStar
- Website: https://corporate.agrostar.in/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/agrostar-in
- Founded: 2013, Pune. AgroStar was founded as an agri-input and farmer-services platform and has since expanded into an omnichannel agriculture business.
- Founders: Sitanshu Sheth and Shardul Sheth.
- Description: Full-stack agritech platform combining AI-powered agronomy advisory, agri-input distribution and output-market linkages. Its omnichannel network now spans 10,000+ retail stores and a direct-to-farmer digital platform, with 200+ branded input products and a growing focus on climate-smart farming.
- Total Funding: Approximately $218M+ across reported funding rounds, according to Inc42. This includes a $30M equity funding round in November 2025 led by Just Climate, a $6.7M funding round in April 2025, and the company's $70M Series D round in 2021. Funding databases differ in their classification and cumulative accounting of AgroStar's rounds, so the $218M+ figure should be treated as a database-reported aggregate.
- Operational scale / evidence: AgroStar operates a large omnichannel agricultural distribution and advisory network combining retail stores, digital channels and branded agricultural inputs.
- Notable Gap: AgroStar's strength is its broad omnichannel distribution, but that also makes the model more operationally complex than software-led agritech companies. Its large retail/input network can require significant working capital and execution, while the climate-smart offering is still being scaled rather than being its sole core proposition.
23. BigHaat
- Website: http://www.bighaat.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bighaat-india
- Founded: 2015, Bengaluru. BigHaat started as an online agricultural-input marketplace and has expanded into a broader digital agriculture platform.
- Founders: Sateesh Nukala, Sachin Nandwana and Kiran Vunnam.
- Description: Digital agritech platform selling seeds, crop-protection products, fertilizers, nutrients and farm equipment, alongside crop guidance and advisory. It serves farmers through its digital channels while also providing distribution and data-driven services to agricultural-input manufacturers.
- Total Funding: ~₹300 Cr (~$36–38M) including the $10M February 2026 Series D led by Bidra Innovation Ventures, with JM Financial and Ashish Kacholia participating. Public databases report slightly different totals depending on whether debt and earlier rounds are included.
- Notable Gap: BigHaat's strength is its large-scale input-commerce and farmer-engagement network, but the model remains inventory/distribution-heavy and less differentiated in proprietary agronomic or precision-farming technology than specialist platforms such as Fasal or CropIn. Its FY25 revenue of ~₹1,100 Cr is also substantially larger than its disclosed funding base, though the revenue figure is company-reported.
24. BharatAgri
- Website: https://www.bharatagri.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bharatagri/
- Founded: 2017, initially launched as an agronomy-advisory platform; headquartered in Bengaluru.
- Founders: Siddharth Dialani and Sai Gole
- Description: Farmer-facing digital platform combining personalised crop advisory with agri-input e-commerce. Its advisory engine provides crop- and region-specific recommendations, while its marketplace sells seeds, fertilisers, crop-protection products and farm equipment.
- Total Funding: ~$21M+ according to Inc42, with the latest reported round being the $4.3M Series A in October 2023 led by Arkam Ventures. Other databases report lower totals depending on which rounds are counted, so ~$21M is best treated as the current reported figure rather than independently verified.
- Notable Gap: Smaller and less capitalised than major input-commerce players such as AgroStar and BigHaat, with a relatively narrow revenue base; FY25 revenue was reported at ₹10.8 Cr, while the company remained loss-making. Its advisory-plus-input model also faces the challenge of converting digital farmer engagement into sustainable, scalable economics.
25. KhetiGaadi
- Website: http://khetigaadi.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/khetigaadi
- Founded: 2016, Pune. The company’s own founder story says the idea was developed from 2013 and the KhetiGaadi website launched in 2016.
- Founder: Pravin Shinde
- Description: Digital farm-mechanisation marketplace allowing farmers and businesses to buy, sell, compare, rent and hire tractors and agricultural implements, with additional finance, insurance and advisory support. It connects farmers with manufacturers, dealers, sellers, brokers and equipment providers.
- Total Funding: Bootstrapped; no significant institutional funding publicly disclosed. Inc42 currently classifies KhetiGaadi as bootstrapped.
- Notable Gap: KhetiGaadi is primarily a marketplace/listing and discovery platform rather than an operator of farm machinery. Its differentiation is information, comparison and equipment access, but monetisation and marketplace liquidity depend on attracting enough farmers, dealers and equipment providers; it therefore has less control over the actual service-delivery experience.
26. Share Croppers Private Limited (SCPL)
- Website: https://www.sharecroppers.in/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/share-croppers-private-limited
- Founded: 2023, headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra. Public corporate records for SHARECROPPERS(OPC) PRIVATE LIMITED show an incorporation date of 2 December 2023 in Pune, although the relationship between this corporate entity and the public-facing SCPL branding should be treated carefully in formal research.
- Founder: Sanjay Khatri
- Description: SCPL is building a farmer-centric digital agriculture ERP and rural-development ecosystem. The ERP connects farmer/land/crop records, input expenses, labour, production and sales with services such as expert advisory, input supply, machinery, insurance, credit support and market linkage. Its broader model also includes IoT-enabled irrigation, dairy, logistics and village-level agri infrastructure.
- Total Funding: No institutional/VC funding publicly disclosed. SCPL describes its model around partnerships, investment projects, CSR and PPP participation, but no credible public record of a conventional startup funding round has been identified.
- Notable Gap: Very early-stage and largely unvalidated at scale compared with established agritech platforms such as DeHaat, AgroStar or CropIn. The company reports a broad integrated vision, but public evidence of farmer adoption, revenues, deployments and independent traction is limited; even its franchise page currently says active franchise listings are “coming soon.”
27. Sonali’s Consumer Products
- Website: https://sonalisconsumer.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sonalis-consumer-products-ltd
- Founded: 2020, according to the company’s LinkedIn profile; the company later became publicly listed on the BSE in June 2023.
- Founder: Sonali Nilesh Kocharekar
- Description: Consumer-food and agri-business company focused on healthy/organic packaged foods, including grains, spices, snacks and traditional Indian foods. It also works with women farmers and SHGs in rural Maharashtra and has initiatives around sustainable agriculture, hydroponics and contract farming.
- Total Funding: Not comparable to VC-backed agritech funding. Sonali raised capital through its BSE SME IPO in June 2023, rather than through the typical institutional startup-funding route. Public sources do not show a reliable cumulative VC-funding figure.
- Notable Gap: The company is more of a consumer-food/agri-processing business than a technology-led agritech platform. Its farmer-engagement and sustainable-agriculture initiatives are relevant to the agri ecosystem, but there is limited public evidence of proprietary agritech technology, large-scale digital farmer adoption or comparable platform traction.
28. Sarveshwar Foods
- Website: https://sarveshwarfoods.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarveshwar-foods-limited1
- Founded: 1890, as a family-run rice business in Jammu & Kashmir, founded by the late Shri Mulamal Ji. The present company is the fourth-generation continuation of that business.
- Founder: Mulamal Ji; the business was subsequently expanded by his son Isher Dass Gupta and later generations of the Gupta family.
- Description: Integrated rice milling, processing, branded food and organic-products company, focused particularly on Basmati rice sourced from the Himalayan foothills. Its portfolio includes traditional Basmati varieties, organic foods and other packaged-food products, with domestic and export operations.
- Total Funding: Sarveshwar Foods is not a conventional VC-funded startup. It is a publicly listed company that raises capital through public-market instruments and other corporate financing mechanisms. In FY26, the company launched a ₹149.95 crore rights issue, with proceeds intended primarily to augment working-capital requirements, alongside general corporate purposes and issue-related expenses.
- Notable Gap: Primarily an agri-processing/FMCG and rice-export business rather than a technology-led agritech platform. Its farmer linkage is concentrated around the Basmati value chain, while the business is working-capital intensive due to procurement, processing and inventory requirements.
India's Agritech Adoption Landscape: The Numbers Behind the Rankings
Digital public infrastructure (AgriStack)
- As of early August 2026, India has created over 10.31 crore (103.1 million) Farmer IDs under AgriStack, with the Digital Crop Survey covering 648 districts and more than 31.3 crore (313 million) plots during Rabi 2025-26 alone.
- Farmer-ID issuance has scaled fast in-year: roughly 70 million by end-2025, 84.8 million by early February 2026, and 103.1 million by early August 2026 — nearly 20 million new digital farmer identities in a single six-month window.
- The government's stated target is digital identities for 11 crore (110 million) farmers by 2026-27.
- Maharashtra used AgriStack analytics to clear and transfer over Rs.14,000 Cr ($1.5B+) in Kharif crop-loss compensation to 8.9 million farmers with Aadhaar-linked accounts, the flagship proof-of-concept cited for the infrastructure.
- The total government budget for the Digital Agriculture Mission is Rs.2,817 Cr for FY24–FY26, alongside a separate Rs.500 Cr Agriculture Accelerator Fund (Budget 2023-24) aimed specifically at incubating agritech startups.
Market-linkage infrastructure
- e-NAM connects 1,000+ APMC mandis and roughly 1.8 crore (18 million) registered farmers across 23 commodity categories, with over Rs.22 lakh crore (~$264B) in cumulative trade since its 2016 launch. FY25 turnover alone reached roughly Rs.80,262 Cr (~$9.6B) across 1,522 mandis.
- Independent academic research on e-NAM adoption in South India finds awareness and use remain uneven, correlating strongly with smartphone literacy — platform existence and farmer usage are two different metrics that sector coverage sometimes conflates.
Structural adoption barriers
- 89.4% of India's agricultural households operate on less than two hectares of land (NSO Situation Assessment Survey), which structurally limits ROI for many farm-level digital and hardware solutions and explains why rental/service models (EM3, drone-as-a-service) exist as a category.
- Despite rising mobile connectivity, only about 8% of rural households have broadband connections, most digital-agriculture access happens over mobile data, a real constraint for data-heavy services like satellite imagery or continuous IoT streaming.
- Research broadly finds medium and larger farmers benefit disproportionately from digital agriculture relative to smallholders, since they're more likely to have both a smartphone and the literacy to use e-NAM, advisory apps, or AgriStack-linked credit.
Drones and precision-agriculture hardware
- Government scheme data is the most reliable figure here: under Namo Drone Didi, roughly 14,500 drones have been allocated across states for women Self-Help Groups (2,236 to Uttar Pradesh, 1,612 to Maharashtra alone), with 2,122 drones approved/distributed under the separate SMAM scheme by July 2026 and 1,094 delivered specifically to selected SHGs.
- Commercial market-size estimates for Indian agri-drones are wildly inconsistent across vendors — figures range from roughly $240M to over $1.8B depending on the research firm, base year, and whether hardware, software, and drone-as-a-service revenue are bundled together. Treat any single figure as directional, not authoritative.
- NITI Aayog's cited long-range projection is a $15 billion Indian drone market (all sectors) by 2030, of which agriculture is one of several application areas alongside defense, logistics, and infrastructure inspection.
Post-harvest losses
- India's annual post-harvest losses are commonly cited at roughly Rs.90,000 Cr — a figure that recurs across multiple industry sources but traces back to older estimates rather than a recent audited study, so it's best treated as an order-of-magnitude reference.
Key Takeaways
- No full-stack winner yet. DeHaat comes closest, but remains light on precision-agronomy technology and dedicated storage relative to specialists.
- The sector is more segmented than a single "top 10" implies. Nine distinct business models — full-stack, supply chain, input e-commerce, post-harvest finance, agri-fintech, precision-farming SaaS, drones/mechanization, dairy tech, and post-harvest quality/D2C protein — mostly don't compete with each other directly.
- Consolidation is emerging as a growth strategy. The Unnati–Gramophone merger (Jan 2026) suggests some players see M&A, not organic build-out, as the faster route to full-stack coverage.
- Arya.ag's profitability is the sector's most under-discussed data point. At a stage when most peers are still funding growth with equity, a profitable, scaled agritech company is genuinely rare in India.
- Precision-farming SaaS sells to institutions, not farmers. CropIn, Fasal, Farmonaut, and Fyllo score highest on technology depth but lowest on direct farmer reach — their customers are agribusinesses, exporters, and financiers.
- Public digital infrastructure is scaling faster than most private platforms. AgriStack's farmer-ID base nearly doubled in the first seven months of 2026 alone; the more decisive competitive question over the next few years may be which private platforms integrate best with AgriStack and e-NAM, rather than which build proprietary reach from scratch.
- Funding-figure discrepancies are the norm. Roughly a third of the companies here have a 10–25%+ spread between what different trackers report as "total funding." Verify current figures directly with companies or primary filings before using this data for investment or policy decisions.
Sources
Company and funding data
- Decentro — 17 Top AgriTech Startups in India in 2026 — https://decentro.tech/blog/agritech-startups/
- Agrijob — AgriTech Startups India 2026: Top 20 Companies Guide — https://www.agrijob.in/agritech-startups-india-2026-top-companies-disrupting-agriculture/
- Agri World View — Top 20 Agritech Companies in India — https://agriworldview.com/top-20-agritech-companies-in-india/
- Times of Startups — Top 10 Indian Agritech Startups Disrupting Agriculture in 2026 — https://timesofstartups.com/india/10-indian-startups-disrupting-the-agri-tech-space/
- Tracxn — AgriTech Sector in India — https://tracxn.com/d/explore/agritech-startups-in-india
- Tracxn — B2B Agriculture Products Startups (Arya.ag funding detail) — https://tracxn.com/d/trending-business-models/startups-in-b2b-agriculture-products/
- Tracxn — AgriTech Startups in Bengaluru — https://tracxn.com/d/explore/agritech-startups-in-bengaluru-india
- Tracxn — AgriTech Startups in Delhi NCR — https://tracxn.com/d/explore/agritech-startups-in-delhi-ncr-india
- Span Global Services — Top 50 Funded AgriTech Startups in 2026 — https://www.spanglobalservices.com/blog/top-50-funded-agritech-startups-2026/
- IndexBox — Arya.ag $81M Series D as Profits Grow — https://www.indexbox.io/blog/aryaag-secures-81m-series-d-as-profits-grow-despite-falling-crop-prices/
- YourStory — Arya.ag Raises Rs 725 Cr in Series D — https://yourstory.com/2026/01/agritech-startup-aryaag-raises-725-crore-series-d-funding
- IFC — IFC and Arya.ag Partner to Boost Farmer Incomes — https://www.ifc.org/en/pressroom/2026/ifc-and-technology-led-agri-platform-arya-ag-partner-to-boost-farmer-incomes-and-s
- AgroTech Space — AgroStar Raises $30M for AI-Driven Agronomy — https://agrotech.space/2025/11/20/agrostar-30m-ai-agronomy-solutions/
- PR Newswire — TDK Ventures & BII Invest in Fasal Series A — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tdk-ventures-and-british-international-investment-invests-in-series-a-round-of-agri-tech-innovator-fasal-and-its-full-stack-precision-farming-solution-302022563.html
- NITI Aayog Frontier Tech — Fasal's Precision Farming Impact — https://frontiertech.niti.gov.in/story/precision-farming-innovation-fasal-krantis-transformative-impact-on-indian-agriculture/
- NITI Aayog Frontier Tech — DeHaat's AI-Enabled Agriculture Network — https://frontiertech.niti.gov.in/story/dehaats-ai-enabled-agriculture-network-driving-market-access-and-efficiency-for-1-8-million-farmers/
- NITI Aayog Frontier Tech — Reimagining Cold Chains: Ecozen's Storage Solutions — https://frontiertech.niti.gov.in/story/reimagining-cold-chains-tech-driven-storage-solutions-for-indias-perishable-agriculture/
- Samunnati — Loans Disbursed to 4M Farmers — https://samunnati.com/news/this-ex-bankers-agri-fintech-startup-has-disbursed-loans-worth-rs-6000-cr-to-4m-farmers/
- Mercom India — Ecozen Raises $25M for Energy Transition — https://www.mercomindia.com/solar-cold-storage-ecozen-25-million-for-energy-transition
- Analytics Insight — Top 10 AgriTech Companies in India in 2026 — https://www.analyticsinsight.net/business/top-10-agritech-companies-in-india-in-2026
- Analytics Insight — Top 10 Agritech Companies Driving Innovation in India — https://www.analyticsinsight.net/amp/story/companies/top-10-agritech-companies-driving-innovation-in-india
India digital-agriculture adoption statistics
- BioVoice News — India Creates Over 10.31 Crore Farmer IDs Under AgriStack (Aug 2026) — https://biovoicenews.com/india-10-31-crore-farmer-ids-agristack/
- Biometric Update — India Advances Digital Agriculture Mission With Over 84M Farmer IDs (Feb 2026) — https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/india-advances-digital-agriculture-mission-with-over-84m-farmer-ids-generated
- Global Agriculture — Implementation of AgriStack and Digital Agriculture Mission (Aug 2026) — https://www.global-agriculture.com/india-region/implementation-of-agristack-and-digital-agriculture-mission/
- AgroSpectrum India — 2026: Indian Agriculture Turns Decisively Digital and Value-Driven — https://agrospectrumindia.com/2025/12/30/2026-indian-agriculture-turns-decisively-digital-and-value-driven.html
- Drishti IAS — Digitising India's Agriculture — https://www.drishtiias.com/daily-updates/daily-news-editorials/digitising-india-s-agriculture
- Drishti IAS — Advancing Indian Farms With Digital Solutions — https://www.drishtiias.com/daily-updates/daily-news-editorials/advancing-indian-farms-with-digital-solutions
- Springer (Discover Sustainability) — Scope and Challenges of Farm Digitization in India — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-025-00651-4
- Springer — Determinants of Small Farmers' Access to Agricultural Markets (e-NAM, South India) — https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43621-025-01412-5
- IndianRepublic.in — How India's Digital Agriculture Works — https://www.indianrepublic.in/2026/06/how-indias-digital-agriculture-works.html
- Ken Research — India Drone-as-a-Service in Agriculture Market — https://www.kenresearch.com/industry-reports/india-drone-as-a-service-in-agriculture-market
Note on market-size figures: commercial research-vendor estimates for India's agri-drone and precision-farming hardware markets vary by 5–10x across providers depending on scope and methodology; figures cited here are directional ranges, not point estimates.
Compiled for Citiesabc, Businessabc, and Citiesabc Impakt. Ratings and figures reflect public disclosures as of August 2026 and are not audited or company-verified; several company-reported metrics (funding totals, revenue, farmer-reach, and market-share claims) could not be independently corroborated and are flagged accordingly throughout.
