Sensegrass- Soil intelligence platform.

Every year around 3400 Farmers suicide in India and Approximately 228 M globally Small farmers facing an issue of crop waste due to climate change and soil infertility. As Per (FAO) Around 65% of excessive Nitrogen and Fertiliser we use in our agriculture remains in the environment and destroys 1/3 of global crop waste. Lack of Real-time Soil information leads to poor soil health and crop degradation and loss of millions in low crop yield, financial losses, and carbon-nitrogen emission. 

Sensegrass developed the soil intelligence system through a patented NPK sensor+AI Agronomist which gathers real-time micro soil data and measures fertilizers from the soil to predict the right usage of water & fertilizers for an improved crop.

Sensegrass helps farmers to 2X income by high yield and reduce fertilizers, it helps to improve soil and land fertility by the right amount of fertilizers and water at right time, right area. 

We are on a mission to provide farmers with a more sustainable farming option. According to the Food and Agro Organisation (FAO) Around 65% of excessive Nitrogen and Fertiliser, we use in our agriculture remains in the environment and destroys 1/3 of global crop waste, one of the leading problems for productivity as well as environmental issues. Lack of Real-time Soil information leads to poor soil health and crop degradation and loss of millions in low crop yield, financial losses, and carbon-nitrogen emission. India is more than 873 B USD market, a Huge, untouched market that really needs Impact innovation. We are solving one of the global issues of farmers to know about the soil and crop condition to get real-time that help them in better decision making. Being the largest occupation in the rural sector with over 550 M small to mid-size farmers, Agriculture is always lacked innovation and outdated, more than half of the percentage of farmers live with a daily income of less than 40 USD with an average area of farms of 2 hectares or less which need innovation that help them to grow well with technology innovation.

Sensegrass is a Soil Intelligence Platform that helps small mid size farmers to reduce the excessive nitrogen and fertilizers from the soil using a patented NPK sensor and optimize the crop data through Artificial intelligence Agronomist to grow better with low fertilizer intake to make future of food 

We have developed wireless NPK soil sensors with Proprietary Technology using the optical FTIR transmission that detects, measures, and analyzes NPK, soil nutrients in real-time on our platform with an AI prediction engine recommending best sustainable practices to improve crop yield, And then our AI Agronomist optimizes the crop and soil data to inform users to get right decision to use nitrogen at right time, right place in the right quantity.

We help Users to-
1- Reduce Excessive Fertilizers
2- Improve Crop Yield
3- Increase Farm Income.

We are making a world-first smart soil sensor for NPK detection using our patent technology that measures more than 12 parameters from micro soil data (including NPK fertilizers) detection and giving solutions and predictions to farmers for better decision-making to get the best crop yield and save money in farms. . Most affordable Tech solution for Small size farmers.

Agriculture is one of the largest industries in the world, Without any recession, it remains going on. India is agri based economic system so many other developing economies, While Agriculture is the most dominant industry it's still broken and based on many outdated methods which are based on wisdom and old practices. So the market is huge, and the need is big. 

We serving to small to mid-scale farmers in the developing economies, those who are fully dependent on agriculture as a primary occupation. Around 118 Million farmers in India and approx 550 Million around the globe are the people we would like to serve. These are generally come under below the pyramid and earn less than the basic min income threshold as per the rural income index. 

Our solution is fit for the global market and we have tested with paid customers while our focus on small to mid-size individual farmers which are around 72% of the global workforce responsible for 90% of global food production and require a solution like this which is fitted with small farms and crops they grow.

We help small scale low-income farmers communities in developing economies through two impacts- 

1- Environmental- Reduce carbon emission and input cost, save land to become infertile. 

2- Socio Financial - Improve income and help them to grow healthy crops with higher prices. 

Our focus currently on India and Developing markets where we currently in operation with a major number of our customers with most revenue comes from here. Huge market with a lot of potentials to grow.

We making a soil intelligence system for fertilizer management and detect crop diseases to improve crop yield for small farmers through smart IoT and AI. Our AI agronomist platform provides personal recommendations to farmers for soil diagnosis and prediction tools for nutrients and other values in the soil to improve soil efficiency and yield.

Our aim is to develop a Sensegrass solution is to impact 550 M small to mid-size farmers with a low income facing issues during day-to-day agriculture practice of low crop yield, crop waste, and excess use of fertilizer, we reduce carbon emission while growing healthy food.

We are earning sustainable revenue with early paid recurring customers. Did three pilots and Post Beta customer acquisition successfully. We are in the growth stage now and scaling the sales while working in 3 countries with over 9500+ Users. We have around 105 B2B customers which include the Government of India, Chile, Various non-profits, Private companies like Bayer, etc through them around 6500 Small farmers and 3200 Midsize farmers using our solution and get impacted.

We are currently in operation in the states of India, Nepal, and Rwanda with around 9800 Plus small farmers. our solution is also used by the government of India, the Government of Chile, the Agricultura board of Rwanda, etc.

We are Patented Technology for NPK Prediction under Sensegrass with technology related to agriculture and soil intelligence. We also have a first-mover advantage in NPK sensing technology and so far only two companies are offering real-time probes in the market. Our Core product is a patented IoT based hardware sensor Device, which is the most innovative hardware available in the market measure 14+ parameter from the soil through the patented optical transmission technology and connected over a cellular network, which can be easily used for 360* farming solution at any remote part of the world without any electricity as this is powered with solar panel comes with plug and play model, doesn't require any tech support to use or implement this. Which makes its independently worded and hassle-free installation & usage.

Data Optimization is hard for proper use and we have developed the AI Agronomist SaaS for optimization of sensor and satellite data for actionable insights to users. Our AI neural network with millions of data points tell user for the right usage of resources through smart plant card system and if something changes in field due to weather or water changes it gives warning with a solution to make sure they correct the problem.

Currently we have impacted and serving 9500 Small to midsize farmers ( Land Area- Upto 4 Hectare) with 2000 Hectare land in 22 Villages and Improve the Income by Double and Reduce fertilizer by 42% and 22% Co2 Reduction.

One Year Plan- Our Plan to expand our reach in 50+ Villages in 7 states of India with 21000 Farmers with the help of our local Partners.

Five Year Plan- A Target to reach 200 Villages in India with a 50000 farmers outreach and next 4-5 years.

Within Five years our plan is to expand in other Countries as well with total People Serve will be around 150,000 Farmers. 

Being an Agriculture focus Social Enterprise, Environmental and Financial Impact is our main key metric to measure our success and bigger impact is our primary vision in the company. To measure our Impact we follow two methods- Primary Assessment Quantitative method and assessment through conglomerate.

We usually create two core impacts- Environmental and Financial, Which are highly aligned with our core business values and model.

Environmental Impact- Being an Agtech company our core value of the company is to create environmental impact by reducing fertilizers in the soil, reduce Co2 Consumption, Improve water usage, More yield, saving soil destruction, etc, and making agriculture more sustainable. We measure our results through our Analytic and Assessment method using the tools to analyze and measure how much fertilizers we reducing and improving in crop yield, etc. So far our user's study on the ground which compares to traditional governments labs and competitions show the

following results-

43% Accuracy in our data prediction

35% Crop yield increase

13% Reduction in Ground pesticide

Financial Impact- 

Our Tech solution helps them to improve almost 38% less fertilizer in the field which not just creates environmental impact but saves money from the farmer and improves the average income by 22% of a small farmer with a landless then 4 Hectare. Our 9000+ Farmers has been improving there seasonal income by double due to improving yield, reduction in external resources usage like fertilizer,s urea, extra water, electricity etc.

Total- 12

3-Founders

5 Full-Time Employees

2 Part-Time Employees

2- Interns

Third Generation farmers started Sensegrass to solve the problem of which we were part for a long time. We started Sensegrass a couple of years back to solve the agriculture biggest challenge and know each other for 15 years and worked together in past with an exit.

Dr Lalit Gautam- Full Time. Lalit has a degree in pharmaceutical Medicine (Pharm Doc) with an MBA in International marketing and entrepreneurship with over 10 years of startup experience. Forbes 30 Under 30 for Technology Manufacturing and also a finalist of Social entrepreneurship. Lalit has One exit as well.

Rahul Gundala- Full-time Rahul Gundala working full-time at Sensegrass as CPO has completed masters in product development from the University of Maryland Recently & a Bachelors's from IIT-D in CS. He has 11 international papers in Siggraph, IEEE, HCVI among others in the fields of robotics, computer graphics & design principles. 

Shamal- CMO- Shamal coming from a minority area of India, lead of marketing with over 18 years of exp.

Swapna- Design Officer- Swapna is having 12 years of IT and Design experience and worked with many organization prior to sensegrass 

Varun Pandit- Chief Research Officer- IIT Graduate and over 8 years of microeconomics and Machine Learning experience.

We have some board of advisors and mentors helping us to build the great product but also connecting with org to scale from companies like Corteva, Microsoft, etc.

Our team is the biggest strength of the company while coming from a third-generation farming family and representing the three small villages in India from North, South, and west already made a well diverse team of Co-founders. We have a 25% reservation for women in C-Level space, Shamal and Swapna are our Female leaders both come from minority backgrounds of India. Our team represents 5 continents- From Asia, Africa, Latam, Europe, and North America from LGBT to the Muslim community. Its not forces it comes naturally to all come together, We wanted to create a team of work force those have seen this problem in various part of the world, agriculture is one industry that is available in each and every country in one or different forms that connect us 

Being a social enterprise solving one of the most critical challenge for our food system require support all community members,experts to tackle this issue and create a sustainable food system for our farmers so they can keep feeding us the entire population.

Our biggest motivation to apply for solve divided into four major ask from Solve community that will help us to grow our impact 100X times through a sustainable model based on plant,people and profit.

1- Mentoring and strategic support from MIT community and network of solve, We have moonshot innovation with validation, proven results and market ready deployment stage, we need extensive support from the experts towards business, growth and sales strategy, technology, product development, impact assessment, funding and network to reach out more farmers and markets. 

2- Funding- Grants from MIT solve isn't the only fund we seeking, the validation and award from solve will help us to reach our funding goal we looking for in coming months.

3- Outreach- MIT Solve is leading startup competition, we need outreach, applauds and marketing to share our solution, technology and impact to around the world so it will help us to reach out to people who want this, this can be done through solve, biggest brand and benchmark certification.

4- Support from the peers, Biggest learning comes from your peers, they give you most honest opinion, connection, support and collaboration, MIT solve has the best peer network with wonderful social impact solutions around the world to help each other.

Our key requirement is outreach, expansion and distribution of our service/product to the market and beneficiaries we looking for, this is the most important need of Sensegrass. We have a market ready product, distribution will help us to reach to highest beneficiaries to create impact for which we created sensegrass.

Funding and strengthen the revenue stream- We not just seeking grants or funding but also want experts support work on our revenue streams, model and reach out to more partners, with a profitable and sustainable revenue streams.

Another biggest need of us is board of advisors, mentors and experts support to grow exponentially, we are young team members, experiences and tech business background but the experience senior advisors and mentor will bring is exception and fusion of young talent and experience mentors. 

There are many organisation which we have marked to work with through MIT Solve Program. Being a Research based company MIT faculties and research students will be our key partner to work for better plant based phenotyping to improve soil efficiency.

We also like to work with Food and agro companies, local governments and specially non profits like gates foundations, technoserve, microsoft etc partners to reach last mile small low income farmers to provide a sustainable income source and make our food system fertile.

We would like to explore the other key partners in the program to align our goals with them to work on this challenge with our solution towards environment and climate change effect on biodiversity.

Sensegrass provides a digital learning platform for non-tech-savvy farmers in developing communities. The most common problem in the rural communities is not the availability of the technology but how to adapt and use them and how to make inclusive communities of rural development that use such technologies. We are on a mission to create an inclusive community for digital farmers those doing small farming in nations and controls the automation of their own farmers without any dependency. Our solution is free for farmers and we make them self-sustainable to use the solution to make their own decision making and see the results. We have made the User experience for these beneficiaries so easy and effective that help them to learn in few hours. We have impacted around 10K Farmers so far mostly women and girls.

In rural India, the percentage of women who depend on agriculture for their livelihood is as high as 84%. Women make up about 33% of cultivators and about 47% percent of agricultural laborers.Nearly 75% of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women, according to the international humanitarian group OXFAM. Female farmers produce 60% to 80% of the South Asian country's food. It may be surprising for others like a developed country where the number of males is high in an industry like agriculture. These women work hard for entire years and most of them during pregnancy or even carry small kids as well. So the decision-making of getting a high yield, using seeds and fertilizers, etc are key decisions completely in hands of these female leaders of the family. Our solution is made for them to make decisions more effectively to make sure get high profitability for the family farm. Around 65% total people we impacted are females.

We Developed the soil intelligence platform that monitors real-time soil fertilizer management using a patented NPK sensor that reduces excessive fertilizers and helps companies to grow healthier, faster, and higher. using an AI Agronomist Platform.

*Sensegrass is a Soil Intelligence Platform that helps companies and farmers to reduce the excessive nitrogen and fertilizers from the soil using a patented NPK sensor and optimize the crop data through Artificial intelligence Agronomists to grow better with low fertilizer intake to make future of food

*Sensegrass Proprietary Technology (Patented) using the optical FTIR transmission that detects, measures, and analyzes NPK, soil nutrients in real-time on our platform with AI prediction engine recommending best sustainable practices to improve crop yield,

*AI Agronomist optimizes the crop and soil data to inform users to get the right decision to use nitrogen at right time, right place in the right quantity.
*We are making world affordable soil sensor for NPK detection using our patent technology that measures more than 18 parameters from micro soil data (including NPK fertilizers) detection and giving solution and prediction to farmers for better decision making to get the best crop yield and save money in farms

Sensegrass is a world-first AI Agronomist platform for smart agriculture, We help users to reduce carbon emission and fertilizer in agriculture for better crop yield through AI-based personal recommendations. 

Data Optimization is hard for proper use and we have developed the AI Agronomist SaaS for optimization of sensor and satellite data for actionable insights to users. Our AI neural network with millions of data points tell user for the right usage of resources through smart plant card system and if something changes in field due to weather or water changes it gives warning with a solution to make sure they correct the problem.

Sensegrass Proprietary Technology (Patented) using the optical FTIR transmission that detects, measures, and analyzes NPK, soil nutrients in real-time on our platform with AI prediction engine recommending best sustainable practices to improve crop yield, AI Agronomist optimizes the crop and soil data to inform users to get the right decision to use nitrogen at right time, right place in the right quantity.

For decades we have been living on the fringe of a global climate crisis. 120 M Ton Nitrogen and Other fertilizer used in our food production and Spend 75-90 B USD and Imagine Majority will remain in the field. The biggest reason for this is lack of technology to find out fertilizer detection from our Soil and Land, How much is required at what time, what amount, and what area? The only convention method is the traditional lab method, where thousands of hours spend in soil collection, going to the lab, using the chemical methods, and get the test done with a raw data as output.

Sensegrass is a Soil Intelligence Platform that helps companies and farmers to reduce the excessive nitrogen and fertilizers from the soil using a patented NPK sensor and optimize the crop data through Artificial intelligence Agronomist to grow better with low fertilizer intake to make future of food.

Sensegrass Proprietary Technology (Patented) using the optical FTIR transmission that detects, measures, and analyzes NPK, soil nutrients in real-time on our platform with AI prediction engine recommending best sustainable practices to improve crop yield

AI Agronomist optimizes the crop and soil data to inform users to get the right decision to use nitrogen at right time, right place in the right quantity