INI Farms operates as an agritech platform offering end-to-end services to farmers — advisory, input supply, and output offtake — and emphasizes strong supply-chain capabilities. The company plans to expand its product offering and geographical reach, with ambitions to grow into the entire agriculture output business. Its leadership frames the opportunity as part of a broader transformation in Indian agriculture driven by large platforms offering end-to-end farmer services. INI Farms positions itself to leverage its supply-chain strengths to scale output distribution, including markets that serve European supply chains. Financially, the company has attracted institutional capital, receiving an investment from Aavishkaar Capital’s ESG First Fund to support its next phase of growth. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the article. InI Farms operates across fresh fruit value chains, providing farm extension services, post-harvest management and processing for domestic consumption and export. The company exports pomegranates and bananas and has sales in 19 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Founders Pankaj and Purnima Khandelwal lead the business and the firm has previously taken venture investment from Unilazer Ventures, Aavishkaar and angel investors including Pavan Vaish and Ashish Gupta. InI Farms plans to scale its pomegranate and banana business units and expand into other fruit categories. It is expanding its sourcing belt into Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat while increasing farm extension activities and processing capabilities to work with more farmers and enable market linkages.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Apr 2023