paddolker

Building FarmHawk dot ai to make Agriculture sustainable again.
Regenerative. Climate Friendly. Clean Food. Better Health.

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Am Satheesh.

In 2016, I left corporate life, 40 days before turning 40, and started Kratos Innovation Labs.

To understand blockchain deeply, I pursued a FinTech certification from MIT. My thesis evolved into x-Defraud, later profiled by The Economic Times among the Top 50 startups to watch in 2017.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked closely with stakeholders across the food ecosystem; from farmers and agribusinesses to technology, finance and institutions.

Today, I’m building @farmhawkAI to make agriculture more sustainable, intelligent and accessible.

6 of 10 FarmHawk modules are live.
30,000 farmers supported and counting.

Our ambition: build one of the most cost-effective AI platforms for agriculture in the world.

And yes, I turned 50 a couple of months ago and I still happen to code.

Age is just a number.
Building never gets old.

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@MagnusGrimeland Perseverance.

Sustained 10 years as a founder.

Solved the biggest problems for smallholder farmers in the Global South.

FarmHawk [dot] ai

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The @farmhawkAI Intro.

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A FarmHawk Production

Video credits @harendrashakya_

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10 years in, we actively listened to our customers.

What we heard was bigger than just the need for a Precision Agriculture platform.

So we evolved FarmHawk from simply providing agricultural intelligence to unlocking that intelligence for multiple stakeholders to underwrite risk —> across lending, insurance, supply chains, and agriculture.

The technology evolved because the problem evolved.

And sometimes, the best product strategy is simply to listen.

[FarmHawk @farmhawkAI]

We are not just a Precision Agri platform.

We unlock insights to assist every stakeholder to underwrite their risk.

Have a look at farmhawk [dot] ai

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@andruyeung Alright, that helps.
I started my company in 2016, when I turned 40, and have managed to sustain and grow it through the past decade. I happened to turn 50 a couple of months ago—and I’m still at it.

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@mablesjoseph +1

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@SeHozaifa +1

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@suraj_sharma14 FarmHawk [dot] ai

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We are probably the conduit.

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@kseniam0s For Agritech?

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@Nandakishorm1 We built an EDGE LLM to assist farmers in the Global South.

We can extend the same to schools.

FarmHawk [dot] ai

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When the founder becomes the model for the brand.

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@EdgarVisi Check farmhawk [dot] ai; we are solving some of the biggest problems for smallholder farmers in the Global South

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@FarmHawkAI , we rolled out AI agentic Infrastructure to assist smallholder farmers in the Global South.

Multiple use cases:

1. Crop health monitoring (helps farmers to save crops and increase yield)
2. Crop monitoring (we become eyes for financial institution to underwrite risk for Agri Loans and Crop insurance)
3. Village Monitoring (helps fertilizer companies to target sales)

..and more.

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@lightsilver323 Check farmhawk[dot]ai

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@sohmehta Check farmhawk[dot]ai

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@PaulKlayVC @PaulKlayVC

Food is a fundamental necessity of the human beings.

However, the farmers that produce food in the Global South are still unbanked.

The last figure stood at 70%.

Your thoughts?

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@MartinGTobias This is not about meat or vegetables.

70% of the smallholder farmers in the Global South are still #unbanked

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FarmHawk "Umbra."

The umbrella for the crop insurance.