Agritech Startup DeHaat Takes Over Farm Guide

Agritech startup DeHaat has brought Farm Guide, business-to-business (B2B) software as a service (SaaS) platform.

However, the size of the deal has not been disclosed, co-founder and CEO Shashank Kumar states Farm Guide’s spatial technology and data science platform would be integrated with DeHaat’s existing digital tech and physical policy to develop a full stack platform for farmers and agri-businesses in India.

The founding team of Farm Guide has already joined DeHaat and the core database and tech platform would be integrated with DeHaat's full-stack technology, Shashank states.

He further adds, “We will be able to provide more precise and customised solutions in a real time, scalable manner to farmers using Farm Guide’s tech advisory solutions which are based on satellite imagery.”

Farm guide was started four years back by IIT Delhi alumni Nikhil Toshniwal and Ankit Gupta and has developed SaaS based platform by using satellite-based data for detecting farm boundaries and data driven customised crop advisory services.

Shyam Sundar Singh, co-founder, DeHaat states, “The tech platform developed by FarmGuide complements to our tech vision of bringing efficiency and transparency in agri supply chain. It’s GIS technology and ability to use satellite data for crop monitoring & analysis will help DeHaat to provide super-customised crop advisory solution to farmers and relevant agri insights to businesses transacting on DeHaat platfrom for agri input as well as agri output."

The force that drives the transaction was common synergies in providing end to end services to the farmers in a scalable mode, states Nikhil Toshniwal, co-founder, FarmGuide.