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KiVi

E Block- 4th Floor, IIT Madras Research Park, TTTI Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600113, India

Overview

KiVi is a technology platform developed at the IIT Madras Research Park to treat farming as a commercial enterprise and connect smallholders with finance and agricultural services. The company offers agronomy, input supply, buyer aggregation, financial services, logistics, quality management, risk management, and warehousing. KiVi reports having provided credit access to over 1,500 farmers and operates in Tamil Nadu and Bihar, while also offering MSME loan products to agribusiness owners. It has facilitated trade and trade finance in commodities including wheat, paddy, and maize. KiVi plans to use recent investment to develop its technology platform for scaling, expand its last‑mile footprint across several districts, and strengthen product and risk management. The company also aims to obtain an NBFC license to deepen its financial offerings.

Total raised
$2M
Funding rounds
1
Latest round
Seed
Latest activity
Oct 2023

Industries

  • AgTech
  • Farming
  • FinTech
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Recent funding

  1. Seed

    Oct 2023

    $2M

Team