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About

Farms2Fork Technologies is focused on enabling Indian farmers to measure various ground level parameters which further helps them to control and get better quality and higher yield. We are the first company in India to offer a fully automated truly wireless smart irrigation solution to Indian farmers built on the following 3 pillars: Ground Sensors, Internet of things (IoT) & Artificial Intelligence (AI). Our patent pending IoT enabled AWD sensors designed specially for paddy have been built on the above principles and have delivered ground breaking results - 42% water saving while increasing the farmer profit by 10%.

Thematic Area

PrecisionAgTech

Geographical area of work

Karnataka, Andra Pradesh and Punjab.

Existing Investors

None

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Founder(s)

Mallesh T M

An serial agri-preneur turned engineer with close to 20 years of rich experience in farming. cultYvate (2016) was born of his first hand experience in agriculture and having witnessed the challenges a farmer goes through while growing crops based on both adverse environmental and man made factors. cultYvate, a platform that enables farmers to provide precise watering without any manual intervention to their crops and also nutrients using various crop models with IOT, AI and ML to deliver precision agriculture farming techniques. This has enabled farmers to grow 30% more crop using 50% less water while saving 30% electricity. Today cultYvate is working with farmers across Karnataka, Andra Pradesh, Punjab and Maharastra who are growing Banana, Grapes, Pomegranate, paddy and sugarcane enabling them to earn more using less water while saving electricity.

Bhavana Mallesh

A serial entrepreneur believes Quality Food is the key to good health and well- being and it is important to make producing food sustainable for ourselves and our future generation. She has co-founded cultYvate, a precision agriculture technology company and lends her product design and development expertise in ensuring all the software tech initiatives are executed well. cultYvate is focussed on farm automation and productivity improvements for farmers using IoT, Satellite Imagery, Statistical Crop Models and Artificial Intelligence.

Arun Kumar

Serial entrepreneur comes with product design and marketing skills. He has played a stellar role in creating 6 new products from scratch and deployed them at some of the largest corporations on earth like the World Bank Group, SBI and 40+ banks worldwide covering Europe, US, Middle East, SE Asia and India.