Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Link: http://ecoursesonline.iasri.res.in/mod/page/view.php?id=473
The Startups finalists are:
Auxin Crop Consultants: an agriculture advisory startup, enables farmers to
post crop visual symptoms through a mobile application and get customised
advisory support from the experts. They envisage creating big data for
agriculture which can be used for better decision making and prediction by
agribusinesses and farmers.
Cheermap Foods: a hardware product/service based startup which makes a
variety of authentic and tasteful Indian tea (chai) available outside of homes
in a convenient manner.
Flybird Innovations: an affordable irrigation technology producer for small
and marginal farmers. Their smart irrigation controllers help increase farm
productivity by regulating precise water flow by sensing soil moisture,
temperature and humidity.
Inner Being Wellness: a food innovation company offering new and
innovative products like flour, flakes,noodles, vermicelli, pasta, bread made
from quinoa. These products are gluten free, low calorie and reduces the
lifestyle disorders like high cholesterol, diabetes, gluten allergies, indigestion
and more
Innovation Agro: a hyperlocal information platform using a combination of
community-based precision farming and supply chain analytics for farmers to
improve yield and market their produce.
Karna Candy: a company aiming to revolutionise the functional candies
market in India. Karna has developed innovative, natural and completely
vegetarian range of candies tailored to Indian consumer taste/palette.
Kinetic Machines: a technology company aiming to address the acute labor
shortage problem in farming. It is developing sustainable farm mechanisation
solutions by introducing bio-mimicking to improve the human capacity in
farming.
Living Greens Organics: one of the first urban farming companies in India to
make specialised rooftop organic farming solutions. Living Greens offers
products and services such as portable roof farms, organic input kits and
green cover for exposed walls.
The programme kicks off with a three-day workshop next week in Hyderabad
where the start-ups will learn about financial and business modeling, and
sales and marketing from industry experts. On the final day they will have
one-on-one interaction with mentors from the investment and agribusiness
industries. The next three-months they will develop their businesses further
with the help of support from CIIE, NAARM and other partnering
organisations including Asian Development Bank and German development
organisation Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ),
which have both pledged their support to the programme.
The start-ups will have regular interactions with their mentors and CIIEs
network during this period, according to Patel.