Agritech Startup AgNext Secures $21mn Eyes International Expansion

Agritech startup AgNext, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider for enabling agricultural trade, has obtained $21 million to spread out across international markets like the Middle East, Europe and South Asia.

It would also set up a new office in Abu Dhabi for deeper reach into the targeted markets.

The Series A round was led by Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI), with participation from existing investors Omnivore and Kalaari Capital. This round was a mix of primary and secondary components. AgNext’s early backer a-IDEA NAARM exited the company with five times returns on their investment post this round.

A part of this funding would also be used to scale up AgNext’s full stack platform for AI-enabled trade to ensure transparency in global food value chains.

The firm claims that a lack of quality assessment solutions lead to approximately $90 million losses in agricultural trade globally. AgNext further explained that the current quality analysis processes are manual, costly and time-consuming with a lower accuracy rate of up to 60 percent

Problems like these result in lower profit margins for farmers and higher prices for consumers, the company added.

AgNext has collected over two million food samples in the last four years, which has enabled it to create a massive AI dataset. The company counts ITC, Godrej and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) as its customers.

Bhamra says, “In the era of Agriculture 4.0, the demand for better market linkages and secure food trade is driving deeper penetration of technology in agricultural ecosystems. As first movers in the agricultural deep-tech space, we have established market leadership in India through our novel AI-based technologies that assure quality-based food trade across value chains.”

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