Villgro

Villgro, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Chennai, India, is an incubator firm focused on nurturing early-stage social startups. It specializes in providing support to enterprises in four primary sectors: healthcare, education, agri-business, and energy. Villgro aims to create impactful and innovative businesses by investing up to Rs6 million in the form of equity or quasi-equity. Through its incubation efforts, Villgro seeks to empower entrepreneurs and foster sustainable growth in sectors that address pressing social challenges.

PR Ganapathy

President

Past deals in Agriculture

GreenSupply

Seed Round in 2024
GreenSupply offers comprehensive farming solutions through its innovative distribution model called "Phygital" (Physical + Digital).

BharatRohan

Venture Round in 2024
BharatRohan is a technology company based in Hyderabad, India, that specializes in agricultural data collection using UAV-based hyperspectral imaging. Founded in 2016, it provides farmers with actionable insights to reduce crop losses and optimize agricultural inputs, thereby maximizing yield and profitability. By utilizing advanced remote sensing techniques and artificial intelligence, BharatRohan enables precision agriculture and integrated pest management. The company offers a range of services, including realistic prescriptions for pest and fertilizer treatments, as well as forecasting services for crop yield, biomass, and development status. By capturing minute physiological activities in crops, BharatRohan helps farmers make informed decisions that enhance productivity while minimizing costs.

Farmers for Forests

Seed Round in 2023
Farmers for Forests is a non-profit organization with the audacious goal of transforming India's forestry sector to trap carbon, support farmers, and restore and safeguard vulnerable ecosystems.

Bharat Krushi Seva

Seed Round in 2022
Bharat Krushi Seva is an app-based platform dedicated to supporting farmers through a comprehensive range of services. The platform offers personalized crop advisory, weather forecasting, and an alert system utilizing data analytics and remote sensing technology. It assists farmers in soil testing and provides consultancy aimed at early detection of pests and diseases. Additionally, Bharat Krushi Seva enhances market connectivity by linking farmers with bulk buyers, thereby helping them improve crop quality and increase overall productivity while reducing production costs. Through these integrated services, the platform aims to empower farmers and optimize their agricultural practices.

Strawcture Eco

Seed Round in 2022
Strawcture Eco develops innovative green building materials aimed at addressing the depletion of natural resources. The company focuses on creating alternatives to stubble burning by utilizing agricultural waste, specifically rice straw, to produce compressed agri-fiber panels. These materials are designed to be commercially viable and are integrated into the construction process, supporting farmers by incorporating their agri-waste into the value chain. By offering sustainable housing options that are both environmentally friendly and cost-effective, Strawcture Eco provides design-to-build services that promote sustainable construction practices while enhancing the livelihoods of agricultural communities.

BharatRohan

Debt Financing in 2021
BharatRohan is a technology company based in Hyderabad, India, that specializes in agricultural data collection using UAV-based hyperspectral imaging. Founded in 2016, it provides farmers with actionable insights to reduce crop losses and optimize agricultural inputs, thereby maximizing yield and profitability. By utilizing advanced remote sensing techniques and artificial intelligence, BharatRohan enables precision agriculture and integrated pest management. The company offers a range of services, including realistic prescriptions for pest and fertilizer treatments, as well as forecasting services for crop yield, biomass, and development status. By capturing minute physiological activities in crops, BharatRohan helps farmers make informed decisions that enhance productivity while minimizing costs.

CultYvate

Series A in 2019
CultYvate is an Ag-Tech company that revolutionizes agricultural practices with its automated farming systems. It offers smart farming technologies for modern agro-solutions. Its products are based on precision agriculture technology to improve the practices of farm management. Also, its AI technologies study varied climatic conditions to deduce the crop water need. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Bore Charger

Seed Round in 2018
Bore Charger is a water treatment service provider that offers a comprehensive water management platform focused on sustainable practices for groundwater. The company specializes in borewell management, which includes services such as mapping, watershed implementation, and rooftop rainwater harvesting. These initiatives aim to enhance the quantity and quality of irrigation and drinking water, improve soil health, and mitigate soil salination caused by dissolved salts. By addressing the challenges faced by farmers, farmer collectives, and agro-industries, Bore Charger helps to increase the yield of low-performing borewells, ultimately supporting agricultural productivity and sustainability.

KrishiHub

Seed Round in 2017
KrishiHub is an agri-tech startup based in Bengaluru, India, established in 2016. The company operates an online platform that connects farmers directly with businesses, enabling them to secure better prices for their produce. KrishiHub leverages artificial intelligence to optimize its supply chain, facilitating farm-to-doorstep delivery in less than 12 hours while reducing vegetable wastage by up to 25% compared to traditional methods. The platform uses proprietary algorithms to streamline delivery routes, minimizing logistics costs and ensuring timely deliveries. By providing a demand-driven marketplace, KrishiHub allows farmers to sell their vegetables directly to various businesses, including hotels, restaurants, and stores, thereby enhancing their market access and profitability.

Krishi Trade

Seed Round in 2017
Krishi Trade is a Marketplace for trade in agricultural produce integrated with the supply chain and Agri product marketplace. The marketplace offers an e-trading platform for truck dial offers e-logistics, SubjiMart offers fresh natural fruits, Load Dial offers farm inputs & implements on the cart, agriculture, and vegetable home delivered. Krishi Trade helps whole-sellers, consumers buy, local village agents, farmers, sell post-harvest agricultural produce, and traders as well as help with the selling and buying of agricultural equipments and consumables. It also allows a trader and farmers to explore import and export opportunities. It offers visa enabled Loyalty Card with a facility to top-up /redeem/ withdraw loyalty points or commissions or receipts. Krishi Trade was founded in 2017 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Krimanshi

Seed Round in 2017
Krimanshi is a company focused on producing natural and nutrient-rich animal feeds, primarily targeting the cattle sector. The company has demonstrated a 20 percent increase in milk yield, fat content, and solid-not-fat percentage in dairy cows through its innovative feed solutions. Krimanshi specializes in valorizing food residues and surpluses, transforming these materials into affordable and nutritious feed options for farmers. By upcycling food waste, the company offers small dairy farmers high-quality feed throughout the year, ensuring that animal nutrition remains accessible without compromising on standards.

FlyBird Innovations

Seed Round in 2016
FlyBird Innovations eases the irrigation of green house based farming. It comprises of sensors like temperature, soil moisture, and humidity.

Ecozen

Venture Round in 2016
Ecozen is a company focused on enhancing agriculture through innovative, eco-friendly solutions. It offers several key products: Ecofrost, a portable solar-powered cold room that utilizes thermal energy storage to extend the shelf life of perishable goods, enabling farmers to reach distant markets and increase profitability; Ecotron, a smart irrigation pump controller that integrates IoT technology for efficient water management, remote monitoring, and predictive analytics; and Eco-Connect, a digital platform that links farmers of perishables directly with organized buyers, including exporters and retailers, while incorporating cold chain logistics. These offerings collectively aim to transform the agricultural landscape by improving the handling and distribution of perishable products.

Kamal Kisan

Seed Round in 2014
Kamal Kisan is an agricultural company providing simple and cost-effective solutions to small farmers. They actually go out and talk to their farmers listening to their concerns, their challenges, and reacting to their needs is how they continue to develop and improve their technology. The company has five products such as a mulch layer, backpack weeder, a vegetable planter, a mulch hole maker, and a raised bed maker. Kamal Kisan using cheaper imported machinery, which had no post-sales services. It aims to help 10 lakh farmers in five years from approximately 13,000 now, and have a presence across South India. Kamal Kisan was founded in 2013 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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