CropIn operates across 52 countries to enable AI transfer learning
Krishna Kumar · Inside the mind of Krishna Kumar, Founder, CropIn- the largest Agritech SaaS startup of India · Jan 4, 2021 · at 44:51
Krishna Kumar explains CropIn's competitive moat in agricultural AI, deriving from multi-country data collection across global climatic zones.
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“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?”
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