Kisan Network
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Kisan Network was a Y Combinator Winter 2016 agritech startup founded in 2016 by the father-son duo of Sanjay Agarwalla and Aditya Agarwalla. It ran an online marketplace and tech-enabled supply chain that connected small and marginal Indian farmers directly to institutional buyers and businesses across the country - bypassing opaque local middlemen - with each step digitally captured and monitored. By 2020 it had onboarded over 55,000 farms across more than 6,000 villages and helped facilitate sales of produce traveling 275,000 kilometers over 65 routes.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Kisan Network was founded in 2016 by Sanjay and Aditya Agarwalla and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2016 class.
- 3 million dollar round
The company raised $3 million led by Mistletoe's Atsushi Taira, with Y Combinator, the Thiel Foundation, Venture Highway, FundersClub and Lynett Capital participating.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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