DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack horticultural Service to farmers, said it has brought $30 million up in another financing round as the Indian firm hopes to keep up its quickened growth notwithstanding the pandemic.
Prosus Ventures, once known as Naspers Ventures, driven Patna and Gurgaon-based startup’s Series C financing round.
RTP Global and existing investors Sequoia Capital India, FMO, Omnivore and AgFunder also took an interest, carrying the startup’s to-date raise to over $46 million.
DeHaat, in hindi its mean village, is tackling this by bringing brands, institutional financers and purchasers to one platform, which is available through a helpline and an application in their local language.
Just about 33% of the yields Indian farmers produce arrives at the large business sectors, as per industry gauges. It’s customarily demonstrated enormously hard for farmers to discover purchasers for their yield.
The 10-year-old startup has also built up a data set of harvest tests and uses artificial intelligence to give farmers liberated from cost customized warning on what they should plant in a season.
DeHaat additionally assists farmers with protecting working capital through association with many institutional firms.
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The startup, which today has presence in the eastern part of India — states, for example, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal — serves near 400,000 farmers, up from around 210,000 in April a year ago.
Around two dozen #agritech startups have raised funds this year (till date)
— Harsh Upadhyay (@upadhyay_harsh1) October 13, 2020
Ergos
Unnati
Bijak
DeHaat
Ninjacart
Gourmet Garden
Farmers Fresh Zone
Krishitantra
Kheyti
BigHaat
VeGrow
Procol
Agro2o
Waycool
Jai Kisan
Intello Labs
Crofarm
Eggoz
Aibono
Arya
Clover
Kisan Network
How the startup is handling these difficulties is similarly amazing. It works with almost 1,400 miniature business visionaries, up from around 400 a year ago.
DeHaat has become on each front, including the income it tickers, which is up 3X to 3.5X since a year ago.
The startup intends to convey the new funding to grow to more states in India, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and in the long run serve 10 million farmers. Also, another region where it plans to center is employing top tech ability.
The startup has multiplied its labor force since the previous year, with some prominent recruits from significant firms.
