eAgronom Uses Farm SaaS as Infrastructure to Sell Carbon Credits
Robin Saluoks · Raising $10m on $50m Valuation, 1500 Farmers Pay $2m/yr For This SaaS · Feb 15, 2021 · at 2:51
Robin Saluoks, founder and CEO of eAgronom, explains the core business strategy behind his agricultural software platform.
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“Well, SaaS for us is more like an infrastructure. Farmers use this to manage the farm and to get the overview of the farm and then we give successions to farmers. But for us, this is just the infrastructure. And we are building the carbon business on top of it.”
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