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Himikara - New Era of Agriculture

Agritech entrepreneur raising money to pay for the tuition at Draper University.

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Himikara - New Era of Agriculture

Himikara - New Era of Agriculture

Himikara - New Era of Agriculture

Himikara - New Era of Agriculture

Himikara - New Era of Agriculture

Agritech entrepreneur raising money to pay for the tuition at Draper University.

Agritech entrepreneur raising money to pay for the tuition at Draper University.

Agritech entrepreneur raising money to pay for the tuition at Draper University.

Agritech entrepreneur raising money to pay for the tuition at Draper University.

Saurabh Singla
Saurabh Singla
Saurabh Singla
Saurabh Singla
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Himikara - is developing blockchain based platform powered with AI to provide farmers a suite of services to increase yield, reduce food wastage and maximize the profits increasing the revenues. The platform helps to model business processes, tracing assets and building the supply chain in Agri-Tech to help off-takers of Fruits & Vegetables who are seeking transparency, traceability & reliability. Help us get at Draper University to realize this dream and save the lives of millions of farmers.

Problem:

Roughly one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted. Food losses and waste amount to roughly US$ 680 billion in industrialized countries and US$ 310 billion in developing countries. Also 815 million people of the 7.6 billion people in the world, or one in ten, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2016.

In addition to the wastage and hunger; an estimated 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people in the world – fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420 000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years. On the other hand every year more than 30k farmers commit suicide in India alone (and these are official numbers). 

Food is among the most crucial and biggest problem that the world and humanity are facing today. Developing countries like India and most parts of Africa are the worst hit due to this. Farmers in these countries commit suicide in the number of thousands every year.

No transparency, No traceability & reliability, lack of storage - cold infrastructure, multiple layers in the supply chain (broken), lack of knowledge with the farmers, small land holdings (less than 2 hectares on an average), eroding soil are among some of the reasons we have the above-mentioned conditions.

Himikara: 

Himikara, is developing a blockchain based platform for modeling business processes, tracing assets and building the supply chains in Agri-Tech to help off-takers of Fruits & Vegetables who are seeking transparency, traceability & reliability, procure sorted, graded & fresh quality produce  providing them full information by modernizing and transforming the supply chain storing the data in a decentralized ledger.

The platform helps farmers & producer organization who are seeking increased revenue and decreased food wastage, do a progressive farming availing suite of services like smart contracts, credits, predictive analysis, drone technologies, cold infrastructure and contract based farming.

Himi Token will be used to digitalize the value of the crop which will track the performance of different crops based on their supply-demand dynamics.

About Me: 

I passed out from IIT-G did my bachelors in CSE and was driven with one force to create an internet conglomerate which focuses and solves the most rooted problems of the world especially developing world - India, Africa etc. I have been driven with the thought of providing 10Mn People with the livelihood whether it may be jobs or small & medium sized entrepreneurship. Since my journey, I have been focused on solving the problems in the supply chain.

I have Co-founded 2 companies in the Edu-Tech and Retail Space before and I have failed at creating the required impact. With the failure comes the learnings, In the past 6 years I have learned a lot from being a programmer to being a Business head and this has been an immense learning journey.

I haven't stopped and I will not stop. Working in the Agri-Tech from last one and half year again bootstrapped with some angel funds to run the business I have been going forward with one key thought to bring a change; to create a new era of agriculture.

The journey so far has been accompanied by financial instability which has always put me into a position where I haven't made much for myself. We are a bootstrapped company and recently got selected at Draper University. 

Getting into Draper University will definitely push me & Himikara 100 steps forward in the right direction towards our goal. Getting into Draper will ensure that we have the right knowledge, resources and connects under one roof required to create a successful conglomerate.

I am particularly inspired by Apple's Think Different Advertisement. 

 

Draper University:

I have been selected to attend Draper University's 5-week entrepreneurship program starting 1st April 2019. Draper University was started by Tim Draper - one of the most reputed Venture Capitalist in Silicon Valley who has identified and invested in disruptive companies like Hotmail, Skype. Attending this program will help me take my venture to the next level and become a world-class entrepreneur. Below is the sample curriculum.

 

Draper U & My Zero Food Wastage Dream:

Attending this program will empower us with the right tools, skills, and network to build a disruptive Agritech venture from scratch. This 5-week program organized by Draper University offers intense training to build critical skills and optimal mental framework to embark on a high impact entrepreneurial journey. People who teach at Draper University are experts from the industry, successful entrepreneurs and VCs which enables tremendous hands-on learning. Some of the past speakers include leaders like Elon Musk, Andy Tang, Ron Johnson, Bill Campbell, Bob Metcalfe and has some of the best mentors like Tina Seelig. Draper University is located in the heart of silicon valley and hence will give me access to some of the best technologists, inventors, investors and entrepreneurs from the Agritech space. I hope to bring some of them onboard to jointly build the venture I am working on. 

Goal:

The breakup of the total funding we need is below:

Tuition: $12000
Travel: $2000
Living Expenses: $1000
Scholarship: $3000
Amount to be raised: $ 12000

Even if I do not reach the entire goal, all the funds raised here would be used to fund my tuition and travel to participate in Draper University.

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