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Sohan Lal Commodity Management

614-615, 642-644 DLF Tower, 15 Shivaji Marg Najafgarh Road, Moti Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi, 110015, India

Overview

Sohan Lal Commodity Management Pvt. Ltd (SLCM) is a Delhi-based post-harvest agri-logistics and financing group. The company operates in post-harvest logistics and provides financing solutions for agricultural stakeholders. Incofin Investment Management and ResponsAbility Investments AG have jointly invested $20 million in SLCM. The investment amount is reported as approximately Rs130 crore. The disclosure was made by two top executives involved in the transaction. The article does not include revenue, user metrics, or details on planned use of proceeds or future strategic plans. Sohan Lal Commodity Management (SLCM) is an agri-logistics company operating in India. The company's name indicates a focus on commodity management within agricultural logistics. SLCM raised $15 million (Rs100 crore) in a fresh round of funding. The round was led by Creation Investments Capital Management, with existing investor Everstone Capital participating. The report did not disclose additional operational or financial metrics. Sohan Lal Commodity Management offers post-harvest agricultural solutions, providing agri-commodity warehouse management and procurement services to farmers, processors, traders, agri exchanges and government clients. The firm operates across 70 locations in 12 Indian states and handles all types of agri-commodities including cereals, pulses, oil seeds and spices. It manages more than 150,000 metric tonnes of warehousing capacity across over one million square feet and currently runs 90 warehouses. Sohan Lal serves large commodity players such as Cargill, AWB, Adani, Jindal, Ruchi Soya, Louis Dreyfus and Glencore as a service provider. Management plans to expand warehouse count to 250 and to almost double employee strength from 255 to about 500 by the first quarter of next year. The company intends to use new funding for warehousing expansion and ancillary services including agriculture financing, supply chain management and technology.

Total raised
$58M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Mar 2017

Industries

  • Logistics
  • Procurement
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Mar 2017

    $20M

  2. Equity

    Sep 2015

    $15M

  3. Series C

    Nov 2012

    $23M

Team

No current team members are available.