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Mark Kahn

Managing Partner, Omnivore · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mark Kahn leads Omnivore, an India-based venture capital firm focused on agritech and rural technology. Prior to co-founding Omnivore in 2010, he served as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Godrej Agrovet.

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6 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 10 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

10 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 10 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mark argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Agribusiness Represents 25% of India's Economy, Beating Official Estimates
“About, you know, a quarter of the Indian economy is related to agriculture, right? Much more than just the stated number, which reflects primary agriculture. There's a huge amount of agribusiness that happens around that.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 16:02 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Mark Kahn on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Mark Kahn said on the Neon Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stellapps Network Processes Billions of Dollars in Milk, Says Kahn
“The company now has, you know, billions of dollars of milk flowing through the network of digitized collection centers that they've built.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 7:02 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kahn: DeHaat increases farmer profitability by 50% to 100%
“You know a typical farmer that works with Dehat in, in, you know, of the three lakh farmers they have on their network right now they are buying their inputs substantially cheaper than if they were buying them From a local Arthia, from a local dealer. They are…”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 11:43 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kahn: Indian agricultural policy focuses on grains and fertilizer over horticulture
“The Indian government is not active in all aspects of agriculture. They are primarily active in, in grains, much more so than in horticulture. They are Active in fertilizer and sugar. And then when you move away from that and you move towards you know, when yo…”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 13:20 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Supported
Agribusiness Represents 25% of India's Economy, Beating Official Estimates
“About, you know, a quarter of the Indian economy is related to agriculture, right? Much more than just the stated number, which reflects primary agriculture. There's a huge amount of agribusiness that happens around that.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 16:02 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Supported
Kahn: Accel is by far the most active VC in Indian agritech
“Excel has been by far the most active. In the space,”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 16:32 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Insight
Kahn: Agritech Startups Must Build Proprietary Channels for Innovative Products
“There are dealers and distributors in the traditional trade, but they're not great at dealing with innovative products. So most agritech startups that are looking at doing direct farmer sales have to build a channel, and they probably want to build an innovati…”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 29:35 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Opinion
Kahn: Agritech has never attracted massive venture capital hype
“Agritech has never been that. So it's never been, you know, it's never been the sector that people wanted to toss huge amounts of money to.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 35:06 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Supported
Kahn: Dairy Represents 4% of India's Total GDP
“Dairy is four percent of India's GDP.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 6:34 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Supported
Kahn: Four sectors captured most agritech investment over five years
“So there are four of them that have seen the most amount of investment over the course of the last five years and those are farmer platforms B to B agri marketplaces, rural fintech, and farm to consumer brands.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 17:34 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Partly supported
Kahn: Top 20% of Indian Farmers Own Half the Nation's Land
“Agritech startups are usually focused on the top 20% of Indian farmers that own about half of the land in the country.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 22:14 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Supported
Kahn: 50,000 Aquaculture Farmers Generate $5B in Indian Shrimp Exports
“That, that, you know, the aquaculture industry is 50,000 farmers producing five billion dollars of shrimp exports.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 23:37 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Assertion Supported
Kahn: Omnivore was India's first agritech-focused venture fund
“Omnivore has been around since 2011. We are India's first agri-tech focused venture fund.”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 0:52 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens Apr 12, 2020 28m
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