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Cropin

3rd Floor, 1021 16th Main, BTM 1st Stage, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560029, India

Overview

Cropin describes itself as the world’s largest deployed AI platform for food and agriculture, offering an AI-powered decision-support system for farmers and agribusinesses. Its core product, FIRST Potato, integrates crop-specific intelligence, real-time field data from sensors, satellite imagery, weather stations, IoT devices, Cropin’s proprietary data models, and predictive analytics to deliver plot-specific daily advisories. The platform helps farmers optimize irrigation, input usage, and residue management to adopt regenerative practices without compromising yield or quality, improving soil health and reducing environmental footprint. Cropin has secured a €700,000 AI deal under EIT Food’s Impact Funding Framework to scale the FIRST Potato deployment across Europe. Planned activities include scientific validation on pilot farms in Denmark and commercial pilots with two potato processors in Germany and the UK, in partnership with Aarhus University. The company is actively engaging in strategic commercial partnerships and is in advanced discussions with several UK and European agri-food brands, expecting to close multiple pilots before the end of the current financial year. Cropin offers an intelligent agriculture cloud platform (Cropin Cloud) and a suite of AI, machine-learning and remote-sensing SaaS solutions that help agribusinesses digitize operations from farm to fork. The company provides actionable, near–real-time farm data and predictive intelligence across crop types and geographies. Cropin reports partnerships with 250+ organizations, has digitized over 16 million acres, reached nearly 7 million farmers, and built intelligence for 400+ crops and 10,000+ crop varieties in 56 countries. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Bangalore, Cropin focuses on making farms and harvests traceable, predictable, and sustainable. The company plans to expand Cropin Cloud’s capabilities, invest in go-to-market efforts, and develop next-generation predictive intelligence through Cropin AI Labs. Cropin says the new funding will support regional and industry expansion and solutions that address sustainable agriculture and global food security. CropIn offers SaaS and data solutions—notably SmartFarm (farm and agronomy management) and SmartRisk (machine-learning predictive analytics)—that help agri-enterprises improve efficiency, traceability, productivity, and sustainability across crop value chains. SmartRisk combines computer vision, deep learning, multispectral imagery, field scouting data, and hyperlocal weather to analyze over 388 crops and nearly 9,500 variants across trillions of data points. The company reports SmartRisk has processed more than 160 million hectares, has impacted 13 million acres and 4 million farmers to date, and could potentially reach 70 million farmers in the next 3–5 years. Smallholder farmers served by CropIn’s platforms have seen crop-yield increases of nearly 25% in the first year after adopting recommended practices. CropIn is investing the new capital to deepen AI capabilities, continue innovating SmartRisk, and expand globally—recently opening an Amsterdam office and hiring local leaders to drive growth in Europe. With partnerships spanning development finance institutions and government entities in 52 countries, CropIn focuses on digitization, predictability, traceability, financial inclusion, climate-smart agriculture, and sustainability. CropIn provides SmartFarm, a ground-to-cloud technology platform for plot-level farm management that is deployed through agribusinesses' field agents to enable B2B2F operations. The company also develops a machine-learning-based risk product called SmartRisk. It currently monitors about 3 million acres across 2 million farmers and serves 180+ customers, including large agribusinesses, banks, government bodies and development agencies, across 29 countries. CropIn plans to scale its platform in India and globally to monitor more than 10 million actively monitored acres across 7 million farmers. The company is co-founded by Krishna Kumar, Kunal Prasad and Chittaranjan Jena and is based in Bengaluru. Financially, the startup has raised a total of $12M to date. CropIn Technology Solutions is a Bengaluru-based agri-tech startup founded in 2010 by Krishna Kumar that provides a cloud-based software platform to help farmers track produce and consignments. Its offering includes enterprise resource planning and business intelligence with a built-in traceability system and tools to manage the field workforce. The platform collaborates with participants across the supply chain to monitor the status of farm produce. CropIn plans to invest the recent funding in technology, data science and predictive technologies to detect and predict crops in different regions. The company has raised about $4 million to date; the current pre-Series A amount was undisclosed. In August 2016 it raised $2 million from Denmark’s Sophia Investment ApS in a transaction that valued the company at $12 million.

Total raised
$43M
Funding rounds
5
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Aug 2025

Industries

  • AgTech
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Cloud Data Services
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Aug 2025

    $1M

  2. Equity

    Jan 2023

    $14M

  3. Series C

    Jan 2021

    $20M

  4. Series B

    Nov 2018

    $8M

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