At the Connecting Ideas With Money on the 29th of October, 2021 founder Indranil Datta pitched Delhi-based Seedsaversclub – an online platform enabling small and medium farmers to adopt sustainable agri models.
website:www.seedsaversclub.com
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ssc.seedsavers
“There is a large unmet need for low cost transition models but farmers do not have a seemless way to transition. We are solving the transition and adoption of sustainable agri models by small and medium farmers – through expert connect, on-demand training, input linkages, buy back and community support,” says Indranil. “We researched 70+ success stories and found a common thread across them all- most of these stories used principles of regenerative agriculture in one form or another. In parallel, there is a ground up movement of independent low cost farming model being popularised as ZBNF. Since, April we have been trying end to end propositions. While we were at it, a small change on our website triggered creation of 1300 organic farmers within 30 days at a CAC of 30 cents per farmer. We sold subscription program and made a $116 at 200% profit with 20% paid retention rate (same as ttxn, china). The next gen farmer is gobbling it all up (30 million people following #organic farming #soil on fb india).”
The startups believes that there is a huge need for farmers to implement alternate profitable models of farming within a few seasons (under 1 year), not 3- 7 years
as in the current system.
Founders:
The founders have known each other for 3 years and have worked together on a previous venture – Dreamkats – that did not succeed.
Indranil Datta
Entrepreneur, ex- flipkart, ola, Samsung, MBA/ BE
Specialist in scaling consumer internet opportunities, BD, profit & loss and business strategy
Vardan Agarwal
Entreprenuer, ex- kamatan, pagarbook, MSc/BSc, Physics
Product management, strong understanding of user, user journey and has demonstrated excellence in solving problems in consumer internet space
