Bharatkrushiseva private limited

Business Overview

• Bharat Krushi Seva, brand name; legal entity Bharatkrushi Seva Private Limited, is a Pune-based, DPIIT-recognized agritech startup founded July 2021 by Sharayu Shantaram Lande (Founder & CEO) and Hemant Dhole Patil, Co-founder & COO, both from farming backgrounds with technology experience.
• It operates an app-based, IoT/data-analytics-driven platform for smallholder farmers in Maharashtra offering: soil testing, hyperlocal weather monitoring/alerts, tracking ~44 parameters, personalized crop advisory, pest/disease prediction, credit facilitation for agri-inputs, and market linkage connecting farmers to bulk buyers.
• Partnerships include seed/input companies such as Nirmal Seeds and Zydex.
• Reported reach: 40,000-200,000+ farmers in Maharashtra as of 2022 press coverage, with a stated goal of reaching ~5 million farmers over several years., Sources: TheCompanyCheck, YourStory Dec 2022, TheIndianKanoon/ANI press release via TheStatesman-Print, LinkedIn search snippets., Confidence: confirmed core business model/founders, multiple concurring sources
• Farmer-reach figures are partial, vary by source/date.

Sector & Classification

Agriculture and allied activities - "Growing of crops, market gardening, horticulture" per MCA activity code (Falconebiz, Tofler); TheCompanyCheck separately tags it "Support activities to agriculture and other activities" (Code A4). Both partial/conflicting on exact NIC subcode - treat sector as confirmed (Agriculture), NIC subcode as partial.

Directors & Key Management

GST Registrations

not obtained. No GSTIN specific to "Bharatkrushi Seva Private Limited" / "Bharat Krushi Seva" could be located on Masters India, KnowYourGST, or general web search. Search results surfaced numerous unrelated "___ Krushi Seva Kendra" GST registrants (small unrelated proprietorships/partnerships in Maharashtra/Karnataka, e.g. GSTIN 27AJJPP6994J1ZA "Bharat Krushi Seva Kendra") - these are NOT this entity and are explicitly excluded per entity-confusion rule. PAN also not obtained, so home-state/registration-count cannot be inferred.

Financials

Funding History

• Total raised: ~$756K, Rs ~4.3 crore per the actual seed round reported in Indian press, across what Tracxn characterizes as 3 rounds from 18 investors, Tracxn - used only for round count/naming per sourcing rules.
• Confirmed seed round, YourStory, Global Agriculture, Startup Story Media, Business Standard/ANI - 4 concurring press sources: Rs 4.3 crore (~$520K) raised in a seed round announced December 2022, round closed ~27-Oct-2022 per Tracxn date, led by marquee investors including S.
• Amit Group, Upaya Social Ventures, Villgro, Criyagen Agri and Biotech, Mintosh Advisory, and SiriusOne Capital.
• Bharat Krushi Seva was also selected for Flipkart Leap Ahead (3rd cohort) with Flipkart Ventures cited as an investor in some listings, WebSearch summary, - this Flipkart involvement is partial/single-source-type, aggregator-level, not confirmed by a primary press article in this fetch set.
• Funds earmarked for technology/geographic expansion to reach ~2 lakh additional farmers.

Loans & Charges

• Open charges: Rs 8 crore, TheCompanyCheck - single source, partial; no charge-holder name, instrument type, or creation date disclosed by any fetched source.

Legal & Compliance

• Indian Kanoon search for "Bharatkrushi Seva Private Limited" / "Bharat Krushi Seva" returned no matching court cases as of this fetch, confirmed absence in that database; does not rule out unindexed or very recent matters.

Competitive Landscape

• India agritech/farmer-services peers, roughly ordered by scale: (1) DeHaat - much larger scale, FY25 revenue >Rs 3,000 crore, profitable
• (2) AgroStar - much larger scale, India's largest digital farmer-input network, 5M+ farmers
• (3) Ninjacart - much larger scale, major fresh-produce B2B supply-chain player
• (4) Cropin - similar/adjacent scale, SaaS-based farm-intelligence platform rather than direct farmer marketplace
• (5) BharatRohan - smaller/similar scale, remote-sensing crop-advisory startup
• (6) Farmdar - smaller/similar scale, satellite-based crop monitoring startup., Source: WebSearch aggregation of agritech-sector overviews; no single authoritative "competitors" list was found, so this is a partial, analyst-style comparison rather than a source-stated peer list.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Tofler (https://www.tofler.in/bharatkrushi-seva-private-limited/company/U01100PN2021PTC202760); TheCompanyCheck (https://www.thecompanycheck.com/company/bharatkrushi-seva-private-limited/U01100PN2021PTC202760); Falconebiz (https://www.falconebiz.com/company/BHARATKRUSHI-SEVA-PRIVATE-LIMITED-U01100PN2021PTC202760); YourStory Dec 2022 (https://yourstory.com/2022/12/agritech-startup-bharat-krushi-seva-seed-round-marquee-investors - snippet via search, direct fetch 403); ANI press release via The Print (https://theprint.in/ani-press-releases/pune-based-agritech-startup-bharat-krushi-seva-came-up-with-comprehensive-solution-to-empower-farmers/791524/); Global Agriculture funding article; Startup Story Media funding article; Business Standard/ANI funding article; Indian Kanoon search (https://indiankanoon.org/search/?formInput=Bharatkrushi%20Seva%20Private%20Limited); Tracxn (used only for funding-round count/date per sourcing policy); general Google/Bing web search aggregation for competitor landscape and cross-checks. Official site bharatkrushiseva.com returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch (bot-blocked) - domain confirmed via multiple independent search-result citations, but logo/on-page content could not be directly verified.