Cropin

“Their first customers are still customers. As a matter of fact, not at the same size, but at much larger sizes.”

“So actually we processed 10 by 10 meter pixel. We divided the country, India as a country into 10 by 10 meter pixels. And we tagged that pixel that which, what is the story of that pixel? In 2017, which crop was there? In 2018, which crops were grown? What was…”

“Irrigation scheduling, pest disease detection, not detection, prediction. That what pest you can expect in next 15 days with more than 90% accuracy. So without even it has happened, we can predict that this is coming.”

“In the smartest product, we have mapped 18 states in the country, and we refresh data of every plot of those 18 states every month. So that is, that accounts to 80% of the farmland and the 80% of the farmer, but we don't have the information who is the owner o…”

“So I think after that, it took one and a half year for us to reach to a million, and then after that, yeah, the story was completely different.”

“We are present in the 52 countries. So our models are learning about the crop from all those different climatic zone, different countries, and also have building the ability to transfer learn, right?”

“We were the first company globally to talk about data-driven farming. In US and Europe also, you know, many startups has come up, but they came after”

“And by the way, I didn't have any plan. I just left the job without any, having a proper business plan or Excel seat at how this business is going to ship up.”

“And to our surprise, we are in 52 countries today. Almost all the large enterprises are using our product, not only in one country, but in multiple countries, we manage around eight million acres of production on our platform. With 400 different crops and 9000…”

“And after that, we always decided that we will never do a free POC and every client paid us. And actually that funded our whole, you know, initial days when we didn't have the funding.”

“We can do audio also, but you know, what we in our study, what we have found that nobody picks the phone and even somebody picks the phone, they cut because that's the, because it's coming from some number. So, so in order to be more relevant, it's better to h…”

“Melinda Gates has been our series B. In Series B, they participated in the round when they saw the impact, the scale of the scale of the business, right?”

“People say when you are in a startup, go to a smaller companies who can write a check quickly, take a decision quickly. And this was advice I got from many of my mentors, but I went against it. I went to the enterprise because in GE, I know to bring a change, …”

“When you are hiring the first guy for your company sitting on a one room, 10 by 10, and you are selling a vision of a billion dollar, actually you will learn HR. Because if you are hiring for some, you know, established company, it's easy to hire. But when you…”

“Look at India as a sandbox where you can build products. You can experiment products because there's so much complex problems to solve here in agriculture. And once you solve this problem, you can scale it globally. And if you can build the product, which can …”

“So we are not only working in India with the banks. We are also working in Southeast Asia and did some work in US as well, where the banks are giving our loans to the farmer and this opens up the black box, right?”

“Another, another, another very big an interesting deal we did was at that time was cropping. They used to call themselves cropex. I think this was the second or third deal we did. And you know, I still remember that we did the deal at Pallav's house almost lik…”