The Indian farmer’s efforts to survive and thrive have been held hostage for decades by factors, such as, lack of timely information, fragmented land holdings, technological knowhow, and unpredictable weather conditions.
Cropin is bringing farms on the cloud, where traceability, productivity, predictability and big data is changing century old ways of agriculture. Cropin has developed a cost effective, cloud-based pay-as-you-go platform that digitizes, assembles and structures farm data, enabling real-time insights on farm efficiency, productivity and forecast. CropIn’s “smart-farms” facilitate live data flow between farms and aggregators in the supply chain, thereby benefiting both. Tracking the entire crop life cycle from seed to harvest has also become possible through Cropin. Since its inception in 2010, Cropin has digitized over 100,000 farms growing over 50 crops.
In times when farmers are struggling to stay afloat, with output continuing to decline in spite of a huge spike in fertilizer used, Suma Agro is attacking years of soil degradation and pioneering Made in India soil conditioners that are affordable and efficient.
Suma Agro is the first manufacturer of humate based products in India and brings in cutting edge R&D technology to its products. Their flagship product Humicas is a concentrated water-soluble liquid organic soil nutrient and conditioner that enhances the physio-chemical properties and microbial activities in the soil, thereby increasing yield and improving soil quality significantly.
Skillveri imagines a future where highly skilled labor is trained virtually. The company uses augmented reality and simulation to skill and upgrade industrial workers.
National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) pegs current supply of skilled labor at 1 million versus the 50 million in demand and expects this gap to rise to 90 million by 2020. Skillveri strives to address this problem with its augmented reality simulator technology. The company has introduced cutting edge training simulator technology for welding and will be introducing products for other industrial skills in the near future. the company is not only enhancing employability but also lowering training cost thereby creating big impact for the bottom of the pyramid communities.
More than 10 million people need eye care in the north east and fewer than 25% have access to adequate facilities even to address problems that are easy to diagnose and treat.
ERC Eye Care, an upper Assam-based provider of low cost eye care services in the north east, has been among the first to have spotted this huge opportunity. ERC Eyecare’s dream is to bring world class eye hospitals and eye care services to the entire north-east. Using a hub-and-spoke model, they run two state-of the art hospitals ,supported by mobile clinics and vision centres, bringing affordable and quality services to patients. The company believes that most defective vision cases can be corrected with just a pair of glasses, or/and a simple cataract surgery – both of the services it provides. Till date the company has provided care for more than 55,000 patients.
The world is turning increasingly digital and urban, yet, nearly 70% of India’s citizens live in villages. Rural India remains largely poor, lacking in infrastructure, education and healthcare. However, digital penetration is fast becoming ubiquitous and has proven to be a great equalizer. The rural healthcare problem has been accentuated by fewer doctors willing to practice in villages. Over the years, the gap has largely been bridged by a few inexperienced doctors and by quacks, resulting in disastrous outcomes.
Karma Healthcare uses a hybrid telemedicine model to provide affordable, reliable and quality primary healthcare to base of pyramid communities in Rajasthan – a model that is inherently scalable and replicable in other parts of India.
Karma Healthcare is envisioning a future where patients in remote corners have access to best in class health services. The company runs eight clinics in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, covering more than 125,000 people and aims to bring this to a million people over the next 5 years.
Cold chains are essential for extending the shelf life, period of marketing of produce. Taking a conservative estimate, the cold chain segment with a small current base has a $2.5 billion (~17,000 cr) market in India.
TESSOL (Thermal Energy Solutions Pvt Ltd) is building the next generation cold chain solutions. It intends to disrupt the Indian cold chain space at all levels and making it cost effective, sustainable and best in performance. The company is currently solving the problems of post-harvest farm-gate storage, intercity/intracity distribution of frozen products and last mile retailer requirements with its flagship product ““PLUGnCHILL”.
With the use of eutectic plates, Tessol’s fuel-free refrigeration technology is based on energy storage and eliminates fossil fuel. TESSOL’s products have found wide application in several market segments including e-commerce, food processors, QSR etc. along with fruits & vegetable retail.
The Agri-input market in India is worth over Rs 60,000 crores or $10 billion but is captive to the whims of the distribution network with even the largest players not able to reach the farmer directly. Having served over 50,000 farmers across India, BigHaat is India's largest "Multi-brand agri e-store" and is poised to move a sizable chunk of this market online.
BigHaat has been successful in introducing greater transparency in agri input consumption by connecting farmers to verified suppliers directly and reducing travel periods required to procure their desired products. BigHaat is currently working with several leading seed suppliers across India in bringing their products on BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive and quality services directly to farmers.
Niramai Health Analytix has developed a new cancer screening tool, called Thermalytix, that uses machine intelligence overlaid on thermography images to enable a low cost, easy to use, portable solution requiring minimal human supervision.
Early diagnosis is very critical in saving the life of a cancer patient. Thermalytix can improve survival rates by detecting cancer at a much earlier stage than traditional methods; tumours five times smaller than that detectable by clinical exams can be captured.
Thermalytix is non-contact, painless and free of any exposure to radiation. Being low-cost, in terms of capex as well as operating cost, it makes breast cancer detection easy and universally accessible and allows women of all age groups to undergo frequent screening without any side-effects.
The shift towards healthier eating habits has been gathering momentum in India. Consumption of millets help people fight lifestyle diseases like diabetes and obesity. Millets consumption is increased with the rising trends of ‘return to traditional, healthier foods’
Health Sutra, a Fountainhead Foods brand, has been reimagining indigenous grains to bring in a new and exciting way to healhty eating and a healthier lifestyle. Healthsutra has a basket of value-added packaged foods based on millets like jowar, ragi, bajra and yellow jowar. It offers healthier ready-to-cook mini-meals (poha/upma/ flakes /semolina /whole grain) as well as ready-to-eat snacks (Jowar pops).
Providing the busy urbanite with convenient options to incorporate millets in their daily diet, Healthsutra products are fast becoming a staple in many a household.
Lack of viable methods to diagnose produce quality is affecting all the stakeholders in the supply chain and today’s agri ecosystem is proactively demanding a solution that is affordable, easily deployable across chain and provide real time diagnosis!
Agricx strives to streamline the quality assessment process with its user-friendly mobile application that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence yielding objective, accurate and faster quality assessment, while saving costs at all levels of supply chain and for all stakeholders (farmers, traders and processors). Agricx leverages the increasing smartphone penetration in India and has built all its applications to be able to process images captured even from a low-end camera.
Agricx works on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model and currently offers certification and grading for potatoes. Agricx is working towards expanding the crops under its purview.
Carmel is a world class supplier of medicinal herbs to global markets offering over 100 high quality organic, herbal ingredients and blends.
Working directly with over 1500 farmers,Carmel has developed a world class integrated supply chain to deliver traceable, organic, functional herbs to the world under its brands - Flavoherbs and Truu. While Flavoherbs serves the bulk markets, Truu offers herbal teas and ingredients direct to consumers.
Carmel’s intervention has been able to meaningfully enhance incomes for small and marginal farmers while offering the goodness of Indian herbs to the world.
The Indian farmer’s efforts to survive and thrive have been held hostage for decades by factors, such as, lack of timely information, fragmented land holdings, technological knowhow, and unpredictable weather conditions.
Cropin is bringing farms on the cloud, where traceability, productivity, predictability and big data is changing century old ways of agriculture. Cropin has developed a cost effective, cloud-based pay-as-you-go platform that digitizes, assembles and structures farm data, enabling real-time insights on farm efficiency, productivity and forecast. CropIn’s “smart-farms” facilitate live data flow between farms and aggregators in the supply chain, thereby benefiting both. Tracking the entire crop life cycle from seed to harvest has also become possible through Cropin. Since its inception in 2010, Cropin has digitized over 100,000 farms growing over 50 crops.
In times when farmers are struggling to stay afloat, with output continuing to decline in spite of a huge spike in fertilizer used, Suma Agro is attacking years of soil degradation and pioneering Made in India soil conditioners that are affordable and efficient.
Suma Agro is the first manufacturer of humate based products in India and brings in cutting edge R&D technology to its products. Their flagship product Humicas is a concentrated water-soluble liquid organic soil nutrient and conditioner that enhances the physio-chemical properties and microbial activities in the soil, thereby increasing yield and improving soil quality significantly.
Cold chains are essential for extending the shelf life, period of marketing of produce. Taking a conservative estimate, the cold chain segment with a small current base has a $2.5 billion (~17,000 cr) market in India.
TESSOL (Thermal Energy Solutions Pvt Ltd) is building the next generation cold chain solutions. It intends to disrupt the Indian cold chain space at all levels and making it cost effective, sustainable and best in performance. The company is currently solving the problems of post-harvest farm-gate storage, intercity/intracity distribution of frozen products and last mile retailer requirements with its flagship product ““PLUGnCHILL”.
With the use of eutectic plates, Tessol’s fuel-free refrigeration technology is based on energy storage and eliminates fossil fuel. TESSOL’s products have found wide application in several market segments including e-commerce, food processors, QSR etc. along with fruits & vegetable retail.
The Agri-input market in India is worth over Rs 60,000 crores or $10 billion but is captive to the whims of the distribution network with even the largest players not able to reach the farmer directly. Having served over 50,000 farmers across India, BigHaat is India's largest "Multi-brand agri e-store" and is poised to move a sizable chunk of this market online.
BigHaat has been successful in introducing greater transparency in agri input consumption by connecting farmers to verified suppliers directly and reducing travel periods required to procure their desired products. BigHaat is currently working with several leading seed suppliers across India in bringing their products on BigHaat platform to provide transparent, competitive and quality services directly to farmers.
The shift towards healthier eating habits has been gathering momentum in India. Consumption of millets help people fight lifestyle diseases like diabetes and obesity. Millets consumption is increased with the rising trends of ‘return to traditional, healthier foods’
Health Sutra, a Fountainhead Foods brand, has been reimagining indigenous grains to bring in a new and exciting way to healhty eating and a healthier lifestyle. Healthsutra has a basket of value-added packaged foods based on millets like jowar, ragi, bajra and yellow jowar. It offers healthier ready-to-cook mini-meals (poha/upma/ flakes /semolina /whole grain) as well as ready-to-eat snacks (Jowar pops).
Providing the busy urbanite with convenient options to incorporate millets in their daily diet, Healthsutra products are fast becoming a staple in many a household.
Lack of viable methods to diagnose produce quality is affecting all the stakeholders in the supply chain and today’s agri ecosystem is proactively demanding a solution that is affordable, easily deployable across chain and provide real time diagnosis!
Agricx strives to streamline the quality assessment process with its user-friendly mobile application that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence yielding objective, accurate and faster quality assessment, while saving costs at all levels of supply chain and for all stakeholders (farmers, traders and processors). Agricx leverages the increasing smartphone penetration in India and has built all its applications to be able to process images captured even from a low-end camera.
Agricx works on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model and currently offers certification and grading for potatoes. Agricx is working towards expanding the crops under its purview.
Carmel is a world class supplier of medicinal herbs to global markets offering over 100 high quality organic, herbal ingredients and blends.
Working directly with over 1500 farmers,Carmel has developed a world class integrated supply chain to deliver traceable, organic, functional herbs to the world under its brands - Flavoherbs and Truu. While Flavoherbs serves the bulk markets, Truu offers herbal teas and ingredients direct to consumers.
Carmel’s intervention has been able to meaningfully enhance incomes for small and marginal farmers while offering the goodness of Indian herbs to the world.
More than 10 million people need eye care in the north east and fewer than 25% have access to adequate facilities even to address problems that are easy to diagnose and treat.
ERC Eye Care, an upper Assam-based provider of low cost eye care services in the north east, has been among the first to have spotted this huge opportunity. ERC Eyecare’s dream is to bring world class eye hospitals and eye care services to the entire north-east. Using a hub-and-spoke model, they run two state-of the art hospitals ,supported by mobile clinics and vision centres, bringing affordable and quality services to patients. The company believes that most defective vision cases can be corrected with just a pair of glasses, or/and a simple cataract surgery – both of the services it provides. Till date the company has provided care for more than 55,000 patients.
The world is turning increasingly digital and urban, yet, nearly 70% of India’s citizens live in villages. Rural India remains largely poor, lacking in infrastructure, education and healthcare. However, digital penetration is fast becoming ubiquitous and has proven to be a great equalizer. The rural healthcare problem has been accentuated by fewer doctors willing to practice in villages. Over the years, the gap has largely been bridged by a few inexperienced doctors and by quacks, resulting in disastrous outcomes.
Karma Healthcare uses a hybrid telemedicine model to provide affordable, reliable and quality primary healthcare to base of pyramid communities in Rajasthan – a model that is inherently scalable and replicable in other parts of India.
Karma Healthcare is envisioning a future where patients in remote corners have access to best in class health services. The company runs eight clinics in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, covering more than 125,000 people and aims to bring this to a million people over the next 5 years.
Niramai Health Analytix has developed a new cancer screening tool, called Thermalytix, that uses machine intelligence overlaid on thermography images to enable a low cost, easy to use, portable solution requiring minimal human supervision.
Early diagnosis is very critical in saving the life of a cancer patient. Thermalytix can improve survival rates by detecting cancer at a much earlier stage than traditional methods; tumours five times smaller than that detectable by clinical exams can be captured.
Thermalytix is non-contact, painless and free of any exposure to radiation. Being low-cost, in terms of capex as well as operating cost, it makes breast cancer detection easy and universally accessible and allows women of all age groups to undergo frequent screening without any side-effects.
Skillveri imagines a future where highly skilled labor is trained virtually. The company uses augmented reality and simulation to skill and upgrade industrial workers.
National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) pegs current supply of skilled labor at 1 million versus the 50 million in demand and expects this gap to rise to 90 million by 2020. Skillveri strives to address this problem with its augmented reality simulator technology. The company has introduced cutting edge training simulator technology for welding and will be introducing products for other industrial skills in the near future. the company is not only enhancing employability but also lowering training cost thereby creating big impact for the bottom of the pyramid communities.
