I Support Farming

  • Chennai, India
  • FinTechCrowdfunding, Agriculture, Consumer Internet, Platform

A platform that connects the people from cities & the farmer where both can partner together, take up agriculture & share the profits

Founded:
2016
Stage:
Steady Revenues
Market:
B2C

Startup Video

Featured

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I Support Farming believes that everyone can be a farmer | YourStory

Oct 13, 2017

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I Support Farming - Connects Both the Rural Farmer and the Urban People | BW Disrupt

Feb 13, 2017


Idea

Feb

2016
Market Research

Mar

New Product Release

Apr

Customer

Paying customers

Apr

New Product Release

Added BlackGram, Water Melon, GroundNut Cultivation

Dec

Media Coverage

Shortlisted among Top 20 finalist - Tata Social Enterprise Challenge

Jan

2017
Funding

Raised an undisclosed Angel Investment

Feb

Media Coverage

Featured in YourStory: https://yourstory.com/2017/10/i-support-farming-chennai/

Oct

Media Coverage

Featured in Times of India

Nov

Customer

Crossed More than 100+ Customers with more than 90% retained customers.

Dec

Funding

Closed Follow on Funding from the Existing & New Investors

Feb

2018
Media Coverage

Featured in The Hindu MetroPlus

Jun

Media Coverage

Awarded best AgriTech Startup by Indian Council of Food & Agriculture, Delhi

Oct

Jobs

Team Summary

Founded by Vijay & Vasanth, an Engineer & an Agri Grad with more than 12+ Yrs exp in IT industry, backed by industry veterans who have managed billion dollar businesses.

Team

Founding Team

Vijayakumar Mani

Vijayakumar Mani


Founder

Founder@VistaHire, F1 Farms LLP, Investor@PayCheckAlpha. Ex-ABC Consultants/ InfoEdge. Enthusiastic Bullet lover. Born & Brought up in Pondicherry.

WORK

I Support Farming (2016 - present)
Managing Partner

Vista Hire Consultants Private Limited (2015 - present)
Managing Partner

ABC Consultants (2013 - 2015)
Client Manager - Technology

EDUCATION

Pondicherry University
BTech • 2000 - 2004

Vasanthkumar Mani

Vasanthkumar Mani


Co-Founder

Agriculture Graduate with more than 15+ Years experience in Digital Marketing & led the strategic marketing group for Lumina Datamatics

Product/Service Summary

i Support Farming is a platform that enables the urban people to support the farmers, predominantly small & marginal, with the working capital to do their farming activities through a well-defined set of process thereby:
- Farmers get enough capital to carry out their farming seamlessly
- Urban people can become a True Farmer

Product/Service Descriptions

iSupport Farming

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