Agritech startup DeHaat raises ₹30 cr led by Omnivore
Owned by Green AgRevolution, DeHaat is a tech-based platform offering agri services to farmers.Earlier, DeHaat raised about ?50 lakh in 2016 from the IIM Calcutta Innovation Centre and ?50 lakh in 2014 from angel investors
- DeHaat, an online marketplace for farm products and services, said it has raised ₹ 30 crore in a funding round led by impact investor Omnivore.
- US-based agriculture investor AgFunder and several angel investors too participated in the pre-series A round.
- Owned by Green AgRevolution Pvt. Ltd, DeHaat is a technology-based platform offering end-to-end agricultural services to farmers, including distribution of high-quality agri inputs, customized farm advisory, access to financial services, and market linkages for selling their produce.
- Founded by Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, the startup currently works with about 56,000 farmers largely in north and eastern India— including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.