Gurugram-put together agritech startup Eekifoods with respect to Monday reported it has raised pre-Series A subsidizing from GSF Accelerator. Different financial backers in this round incorporate Naho Shigeta, author and CEO, Infobridge Holdings; Shalin Sanjay Shah, chief, Core91 VC; and a Gulf-based Syndicate. Existing Eekifoods financial backers; Sumit Jain, country head, BirdEye; and Dipesh Palodalso took part in the round.
The startup said the assets will principally be utilized for additional innovation advancement, scaling tasks and group building.
Eekifoods is a result of two years of innovative work of an exceptional innovation, which centers around teaching bleeding edge horticultural methods that are both feasible and financially practical. Today, we can develop tomatoes, bottle gourd, eggplant, cucumber and different vegetables and sell them productively at close to advertise costs. We are eager to have the sponsorship of prestigious financial backers like GSF Accelerator at a beginning phase, and this subsidizing is a solid approval of our main goal at Eekifoods to fabricate the most feasible farming stage on the planet, said Abhay Singh, fellow benefactor, Eekifoods.
Established in 2019, Eekifoods has built up a restrictive vegetable developing innovation, which permits it to deliver totally buildup free, Indian, and colorful vegetables and sell them productively at close market costs. This has been conceivable on the grounds that its innovation has decreased the expense of developing by as much as 40% for an assortment of Indian organic product bearing vegetables, when contrasted with other coco-peat-based tank-farming advancements.
The startup was established by Amit Kumar and Abhay Singh, moves on from IIT Bombay.
Eekifoods has the most progressive Hydroponics innovation grew natively by Indian ability. Organizations like Eeki are critical to the eventual fate of Indian horticulture. Eeki gives a jump freedom to Indian agribusiness and its modernization, added Rajesh Sawhney, originator and CEO, GSF Accelerator.
Not at all like a few other tank-farming cultivators zeroing in on delivering intriguing vegetables, Eekifoods likewise develops famous Indian vegetables like coriander, tomato, eggplant, cucumber, and unpleasant gourd, the organization said.
Established in 2012, the innovation gas pedal GSF, with an arrangement of hits including Whatfix, Slintel, Docsapp, Quizizz, Citymall, Flinto, Gamezop, Zen Duty, Khabri,Well Being, and Vaultedge. The gas pedal has likewise had a few effective ways out including Little Eye Labs (procured by Facebook), Dailyrounds (purchased by M3 Japan), and Pokkt (gained by Anymind, Japan) among others.
Eekifoods likewise said it is searching for new ranch accomplices, and the startup thusly will furnish them with steady pay by means of cultivating as-a-administration. The startup presently has four utilitarian ranches in Rajasthan that are distantly overseen and constrained by Eeki’s homestead IoT. It is hoping to set up at any rate twelve additional homesteads before the finish of this monetary year and produce 84 metric huge loads of produce month to month, available to be purchased in the NCR and Rajasthan territory.