Cropin

Building intelligence
for the systems that sustain life.

Agriculture was Cropin’s first physical system. The company is extending that verified intelligence foundation across water, forests, energy and infrastructure.

Our thesis

The next AI frontier is the physical world.

The most consequential systems do not live entirely in software. They unfold across land, weather, biology, assets and people. To understand them, AI needs more than language, it needs verified physical context and domain intelligence.

Ground truth matters.

Models become useful when they are anchored in verified observations of crops, practices and outcomes.

Domain depth compounds.

Years of crop, region and seasonal knowledge create intelligence general-purpose systems cannot infer alone.

Intelligence must act.

The value of prediction appears only when it reaches the right enterprise workflow, person and decision.

What we have built

Fifteen years of agricultural intelligence infrastructure.

Cropin connects proprietary data, a crop knowledge graph, reusable Earth-intelligence pipelines, domain AI models and agentic orchestration in one enterprise architecture.

400M+ haCOMPUTED FOOTPRINT

500+CROPS

10K+VARIETIES

22+PROPRIETARY MODELS

Where we go next

From agricultural intelligence to a broader physical-world platform.

Food and agriculture are our proving ground. The underlying architecture is extendable to other land-, climate- and asset-intensive systems where decisions depend on understanding change in the physical world.

LEADERSHIP, GOVERNANCE & BACKING

World-class operators, guided by experienced investors.

Built in Food-Ag. Expanding across the physical world. Our team brings together domain expertise, enterprise execution and AI to turn satellite, climate and field data into decisions people can act on.

Krishna Kumar

Founder & CEO

Krishna Kumar is Founder and CEO of Cropin, with 15+ years in data, technology, product & AI. He brings deep domain expertise in Food and Commodities across all continents. An ex-GE IMLP leader, he is a WEF Technology Pioneer and Steering Committee Member, UBS Global Visionary, GOI Startup Advisory Council member, and BW & ET 40 Under 40 honoree.

Prakhyath Hegde

Chief Product & AI Officer

Prakhyath is Chief Product Officer and Head of AI Labs at Cropin, bringing experience from building 300M-scale consumer platforms at Samsung Research and Viacom18 (JioCinema/Jio). He holds 5+ patents and has authored several research papers, combining strong product leadership with deep technical and AI expertise.

Prateek Srivastava

Chief Business Officer

Prateek Srivastava is Chief Business Officer at Cropin, leading global business growth, strategic accounts, and partnerships. With prior founder experience in agritech & enterprise technology, he brings a strong mix of commercial leadership, market insight, and execution in scaling agriculture technology across geographies.

Deepti Beri

Chief Financial Officer

Deepti is Chief Financial Officer at Cropin, leading strategic finance, fundraising, business planning, investor relations, risk management, and governance. She brings 20+ years of hands-on experience in Finance, M&A, deals & transactions with consumer tech, marketplaces, and enterprise SaaS companies across India, US, UK & ASEAN.

Ashwini Karumbaiah

Chief People Officer

Ashwini leads People at Cropin, shaping talent, culture, and organizational capability for the company’s next phase of growth. Her past roles include Head People Business Partner for Tech & GAC at AB InBev and leadership roles at Sasken, alongside her work as a Founder Partner at Irisz and an ICF-certified executive coach.

Ecosystem

Partners connect intelligence to scale.

Cropin works with BCG, Wipro, Global Hitss, HCL and Google to extend physical-world intelligence through strategy, enterprise technology and delivery.

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Our mission, vision and purpose

Mission

To maximize per-acre value by empowering every agri-food stakeholder with intelligence, efficiency, and sustainability at scale.

Vision

Transforming food and agriculture with a digitisation, data, and AI-first approach.

Cropin purpose

To build smarter, sustainable food systems that foster resilience, enable prosperity, and secure food and nutrition for all.

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Advisory Board

Ranveer Chandra

Managing Director, Research for Industry; CTO, Agri-Food, Microsoft

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TVG Krishnamurthy

Board Director, OLA Cabs

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Advisors who helped shape our journey.

The following leaders served as advisors to Cropin in the past, contributing experience across AI, agriculture technology and enterprise growth.

Dr. Barrett Mooney

AgTech & US Market Advisor

Served as advisor in the past

Former Chairman and CEO of AgEagle, with a PhD in Agricultural & Biological Engineering. Advised on agriculture product strategy, geospatial and UAV use cases, US market entry and enterprise adoption.

Peter Grant

Business Development Advisor

Served as advisor in the past

Enterprise software and SaaS commercial leader; former President and Chief Commercial Officer of OakNorth. Advised on business development, go-to-market scaling and enterprise commercialization.