Cropin: Smart farming
Year: 2010
Founders: Krishna Kumar, Kunal Purohit
Funding: $58M+ across rounds
Investors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bayer, Omnivore, CDC Group, others
Introduction
Established in Bengaluru in 2010, Cropin is a global B2B AgriTech pioneer spearheading the digital revolution in agriculture. With its flagship Cropin Cloud platform—the world’s first agricultural industry cloud—it brings cutting-edge technology to the agri-food ecosystem in 92 countries. Krishna Kumar and Kunal Purohit co-founded Cropin, a company that uses data to help farmers, businesses, and governments make better decisions.
Tackling Agricultural Challenges
Supply chain inefficiencies, variable yields, and climate volatility are threats to farmers and agribusinesses. Using weather data, AI, ML, and remote sensing, Cropin transforms complexity into useful insights. Its objective is to increase farm resilience and productivity while creating a traceable, predictable, and sustainable food system.
Key Offerings
- Cropin Grow (SmartFarm): Manages farm operations across seasons
- Cropin Connect (AcreSquare): Enhances collaboration among agri-stakeholders
- Cropin Trace (RootTrace): Brings full transparency to agri-supply chains
- Cropin Data Hub: Aggregates agronomic, geospatial, and historical data to fuel analytics
Real Impact
Cropin is reshaping global agriculture by bringing intelligence to every acre. With operations in 92 countries, the company has digitized over 16 million acres and positively impacted more than 7 million farmers. But its influence stretches far beyond those numbers.
Using its Crop Knowledge Graph—the world’s largest agronomy intelligence engine—Cropin processes data on 500+ crops and 10,000+ crop varieties across geographies. Its systems deliver predictive intelligence across 200 million+ acres, enabling agri-enterprises to boost crop yields, manage risks, and reduce value chain inefficiencies by 15–20%.
In a world facing increasing food security concerns, Cropin is laying the digital infrastructure for predictive agriculture—one that’s informed by deep data, real-time alerts, and machine learning models. From African rice cooperatives to Southeast Asian fruit exporters to Indian government-backed agri-programs, Cropin’s digital rails are empowering decision-makers everywhere.
Success Story
In collaboration with a large agri-processor in India, Cropin digitized hundreds of contract farms producing tomatoes and chilies. Using Cropin Grow, field staff tracked sowing, weather events, and pest advisories in real time. The result: a 22% yield improvement, 50% reduction in crop damage, and accurate forecasting for factory operations.
Meanwhile, downstream processors benefited from RootTrace, ensuring quality, traceability, and compliance—paving the way for export-grade produce.
Lessons for Agri-Startups
Cropin’s journey offers several key takeaways:
- Platform Thinking Wins: Cropin’s cloud-first, modular architecture allows diverse use cases—farming, traceability, analytics—to run on a single ecosystem.
- Data Is the Differentiator: Cropin’s knowledge graph is its true IP—layered, learning, and constantly expanding.
- B2B Scale Works: By working with governments, agribusinesses, and NGOs, Cropin achieves systemic impact.
- Global Vision, Local Execution: Whether it’s an African co-op or a European importer, Cropin adapts its solutions to regional farming dynamics.
- AI Meets Agronomy: Cropin combines artificial intelligence with deep crop science, making decisions not just smart, but agronomically sound.
As agriculture enters its digital decade, Cropin is defining what a connected, intelligent farm ecosystem looks like—at scale, across borders.
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From digitizing millions of acres to powering predictive models for food security, Cropin is building the nervous system of global agriculture. Their platform proves that tech, data, and agronomy can unite to unlock smarter farming for a better future.
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