Founded by Rajesh Ranjan ('15) & Avinash Kumar ('12), Krishify helps farmers network
YourStory (June 22, 2021)
This Bihar boy's agritech startup is building the 'Facebook and LinkedIn' for farmers and agri traders
Rajesh Ranjan has been an entrepreneur since his IIT Kharagpur days. In 2014, the Bihar boy, who hails from a farming family, founded Instano — a Dunzo-like hyperlocal app, which enabled users to find and shop from nearby stores.
Instano was acquired by MagicTiger in 2015, following which Rajesh joined the company in its product division. He later worked at ixigo and Analytics Vidhya. “My forte was building digital products and finding growth channels,” he tells YourStory.
In late-2018, Rajesh quit his job to build something for the “next generation of internet users” in India.
By April 2019, Rajesh got together with his IIT-KGP senior Avinash Kumar (Co-founder) and IIT-Delhi alumnus Manish Agrawal (Co-founder) to start Krishify — a social networking, trading, and knowledge-sharing platform for farmers.
“The success of ShareChat gave us the validation that a new set of audience was online,” he says. “We also wanted to create value, and agriculture was close to my heart because I'm from a farming family.”
A month later, in May, the Gurugram-based startup raised seed funding of $152,000 from Orios Venture Partners and Appyhigh to launch operations. (Read More) (Krishify's website)